In the preceding article we found out that there must have been a mingling of population and cultures of the people of ancient India (Bharat) and Europe, and we were pondering about the "direction" of migration. An article by Sri Subhash Kak, The Gundestrup Cauldron and its Indian Connection, discusses about this diffusion of culture in his article well.
Few other evidences worth mentioning here [Source: Recovery of the Foundations of Indian Knowledge Systems; IIT, Kharagpur]. The Vedic culture and Indus Valley Civilazation dated back to 7000 to 1500 BCE, much earlier than the European relics were found; and there are concrete evidences to prove this point. The colonial rulers were desperate to disprove this obvious fact to promote their racial agenda and philological superiority.
It is also however important to mention at this point that like many other nations, the left-leaning politicians and 'woke' elements are always there to discredit any indigenous systems/history for favor of something which feeds their agenda to make them appear "politically correct". An account of such an attempt at assassination may be found here.
But why was this Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT) forged and forced, first of all? The colonial invaders found out 'millions of similarites' between Indian languages and the European language tree, and it suited them best to design an invasion, which was the easy way out. But ancient Vedic civilisation or Indus Valley Civilisation never actually believed in any kind of aggression or invasion, rather they always fostered brotherhood and unity.
"In what Veda, in what Sukta, do you find that the Aryans came into India from a foreign country? Where do you get the idea that they slaughtered the wild aborigines? What do you gain by talking such nonsense?"- Swami Vivekananda: The East and The West
Not only in the context of PIE languages, India had a lot to offer to the World for its developments, not even bothering for anything in return. For example, consider the Brahmi scripts, from which the English and the so called Arabic numerals evolved. The concept of zero (0) without which we couldn't use computers operating in binary logic; the Vaisesika philosophy (concept of atom, time and space and many other great features which were discussed in an article in East-West, April, 1934, wherein a summary of its scientific knowledge was given); concept of Yoga [the underlying principle of original Christianity] which the Western world is now recognizing; the basis for the invention of radio transmitter [Acharya J. C. Bose was the first to use semiconductor junctions to detect radio waves]; fields of medicine and surgery including plastic surgery and ophthalmologic procedures which predated Western methods; fields in astronomy; Spiritual philosophy including the first true monotheism [ATHMAN=BRAHMAN; Erwin Schrodinger: What is Life]; the birthplace of many religions and countless more.
Regarding India's contribution in Arithmetic, Laplace, the famous French mathematician, statistician, physicist, a versatile polymath had this to say:
"It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by the means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position, as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit, but its very simplicity, the great ease which it has lent to all computations, puts our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions, and we shall appreciate the grandeur of this achievement when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest minds produced by antiquity.'
[Kumar, Raj (2003). Essays on Ancient India. Discovery Publishing House. pp. 196–. ISBN 978-81-7141-682-0.]
Now, this second installment of AIT and Sanskrit is also timely, considering that there are recent papers coming out to suggest and consequently prove that Sanskrit originated from outside India. It's as if saying that humans came from Saturn! Certainly, as one would expect, the woke Indian media will only be very happy to toe the line.
But does all this discussion about an invasion that never was make any difference? No! In Sanskrit it is said "Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam": Maha Upanishad. The World is one family, we are all related. Let us evolve as one, that should be our motto, keeping aside all prejudices. 'Till we set up a colony on Mars riding on a Elon Musk rocket, the Earth is our one and only home.
Additional Reference: Autobiography of a Yogi
Tags: Language, philology, philosophy, India, Aryan Invasion Theory
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