[Prev][Next][Index][Thread]
Re: ARTICLE : hindu is not our word !
-
Subject: Re: ARTICLE : hindu is not our word !
-
From: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@braincells.com>
-
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 05:53:41 GMT
-
Apparently-To: soc-religion-hindu@uunet.uu.net
-
Newsgroups: soc.religion.hindu
-
Organization: Consolidated Braincells Inc.
-
References: <ghenE0unx5.Gu8@netcom.com>
Sourav <sourav@hotmail.com> wrote in article <ghenE0unx5.Gu8@netcom.com>...
> shrinath@ifu.ifu.net (Hari Om) wrote:
>
> [...]
> > Hindu came from ...misspoken SINDHU river civilization as
> > INDUS ...and then --Hindu and then India...
>
> I believe somebody sometime posted in soc.culture.indian that the
derivation
> of the word 'hindu' was in the brihad naaradiiya puraan. It is supposed
to
> have been derived from "HImaalaya" and "biNDU sarovar".
>
> Something like that, Somebody kindly enlighten !!
>
Hindu is the Persian word for the Sindhu river. Hindustan was their name
for the land beyond the Sindhu. The Greeks called the Sindhu Indus and the
land beyond it India.
It has nothing to do with any Purana. The Sanskrit name for India is
Bharat.
--
Jaldhar H. Vyas [jaldhar@braincells.com] I will choose.-_|\ free will
Consolidated Braincells Inc. / \
http://www.braincells.com/jaldhar/ -)==Perth=Amboy=>*.--._/ o-
"Witty quote" - Dead Guy v McQ!
