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RE:Myth of aryan invasion
by rashmi sahu on Sep 22, 2007 10:18 AM



First let us see how did they arrive at these dates! It was well known in India in the british period that Vedas pre-dated Christ, since they definitely pre-dated Buddha who lived some 400 years before Christ. Some scholars then said that as per Bible the world was created in 4000 BC, and Noah%u2019s flood took place in 2500 BC. So they decided that Aryan Invasion of India must have taken place only after this flood and before Buddha, and hence would be around 1500 BC! This is the funniest investigation I have ever heard about. I doubt if anybody can dare to call this a scientific investigation! This is what some call as, %u2018adjusting history%u2019 to be %u2018compliant%u2019 with %u2018religious texts%u2019


Now let us see some of the obvious proofs that have thrown this theory into dustbin.


Aryan is not a race! First of all Aryan is not a race. No where in the vedas and other ancient Indian text is the terms Aryan used to refer to a race!! Aryan in Sanskrit means %u201CGentleman%u201D. It is used in Sanskrit like how in English we use the term %u201CMr%u201D, that%u2019 s all about it!


Even Max Muller who initially termed vedas as %u201Cchildish%u201D (only to be later criticized by other scholars as a person who doesnt know even basic sanskrit!), later tried to correct himself in many occassions about the Aryan race! He said:
%u201CI have declared again and again that if I say Aryas, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair, nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language%u2026to me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan

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