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Re: ARTICLE : hindu is not our word !
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Subject: Re: ARTICLE : hindu is not our word !
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From: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@braincells.com>
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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 06:04:06 GMT
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Dr. Jai Maharaj <jai@aloha.com> wrote in article
<ghenE0unx2.GtD@netcom.com>...
> Here are excerpts from Hinduism Today according to
> which it is evident that "Hindu" *is* our word:
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> "'HINDU' DOES NOT COME FROM 'SINDHU'
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> "How many times have you explained that the name of
> your religion is a concoction invented by the Persians
> who called the people who lived beyond the Sindhu River
> 'Hindus,' mispronouncing the 'S'?
>
> "Recant.
>
> "A. Krishna Kumar of Hyderabad, India, explains. 'This
> [Sindhu/Hindu] view is untenable since Indians at that
> time enviably ranked highest in the world in terms of
> civilization and wealth would not have been without a
> name. They were not the unknown aborigines waiting to
> be discovered, identified and Christened by foreigners.'
>
They weren't without a name. The name was Bharat.
> "He cites a more solid argument from the book
An argument made of air would be more solid than the one above.
> Self-Government in India by N. B. Pavgee, published in
> 1912. The author tells of an old Swami and Sanskrit
> scholar Mangal Nathji, who found an ancient Puran known
> as Brihannaradi in the Sham village, Hoshiarpur, Punjab.
> It contained the verse:
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> "'HIMALAYAM SAMARABHYA YAVAT BINDUSAROVARAM
> HINDUSTHANAMITI QYATAM HI ANTARAKSHARAYOGATAH'
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> "Kumar translates it as:
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> "'The country lying between the Himalayan mountain and
> Bindu Sarovara (Cape Comorin sea) is known as Hindusthan
> by combination of the first letter "hi" of "Himalaya"
> and the last compound letter "ndu" of the word
> "Bindu."'"
>
Considering every Purana contains a Bhuvanakosha or geographical section
it's rather curious that this fanciful etymology isn't mentioned elsewhere.
This verse is likely a modern forgery.
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