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In his Discourse on Sanskrit and Its Literature, given at the College of France,
Professor Bournouf states, We will study India with its philosophy and its
myths, its literature, its laws and its language. Nay it is more than India, it is a
page of the origin of the world that we will attempt to decipher.
In History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, Max Mueller observed, In the Rigveda we shall have before us more real antiquity than in all the inscriptions of
Egypt or Ninevah. . the Veda is the oldest book in existence
From space, researchers can detect that Saraswati had several tributaries,
watering an immense area of fertile soil. Traces of artificial canals watering
remote agricultural locations are also visible.
years ago, much older than Kiev, so far believed to be the mother of all
Russian cities.
We may consider it incredible, but we have ground to assert that Middle-Volga
region was the original land of Ancient Rus. This is a hypothesis, but a
hypothesis, which requires thorough research, Reader of Ulyanovsk State
Universitys archaeology department Dr Alexander Kozhevin told state-run
television Vesti .
Dr Kozhevin, who has been conducting excavation in Staraya Maina for last
seven years said that every single square metre of the surroundings of the
ancient town situated on the banks of Samara, a tributary of Volga, is studded
with antiques.
Prior to unearthing of the Vishnu idol, Dr Kozhevin has already found ancient
coins, pendants, rings and fragments of weapons. (Times of India, Dec 2006)
As a matter of fact, the Vedic civilization, being the oldest , has influenced
every major culture and religion around the world that we know today, and can
be declared as the parent of humanity.
The philosopher and researcher Edward Pococke also wrote about this
conclusion in his book India in Greece (page 251). He states: Sir William
Jones concluded that the Hindus had an immemorial antiquity with the old
Persians, Ethiopians and Egyptians, the Phoenicians, Greeks and Tuscans, the
Scythians or Goths, and the Celts, the Chinese, Japanese and Peruvians.
Pococke continues in his observation: Now the whole of the society of Greece,
civil and military, must strike one as being eminently Asiatic, much of it
specially Indian. I shall demonstrate that these evidences were but the
attendant tokens of Indian colonization with its corresponding religion and
language. I shall exhibit dynasties disappearing from India, western India, to
appear again in Greece, clans who fought upon the plains of Troy. Therefore,
since Greece is supposed to be the origins of European culture, and since
Greece displays much of the same culture as India, we can say that the preChristian culture of Europe was Vedic.
William Durant, author of the 10-volume Story of Civilization, wrote, India
was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of European
languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, of our mathematics, of the
ideals embodied in Christianity, of self-government and democracy. Mother
India is in many ways the mother of us all.
The above quotes would indicate that the Vedic culture was a global faith, a
world influence. This may be given further credence in the remarks of Ctesias,
the Greek writer that The Hindus were as numerous as all the other nations
put together.
This is further corroborated in P. N. Oaks World Vedic Heritage (p. 506) in
which he presents evidence that, In pre-Christian times the temples of Vedic
Deities such as Vishnu, Shiva, the Mother goddess, Rama, Hanuman, and
Krishna used to abound in all regions of the world. Evidence of this is found in
the works of ancient authors such as Megasthenes, Strabo, and Herodotus. All
those names are of Vedic origin, too. The term Megasthenes is Megh-Sthaneesh, i.e. the Lord of the Region of the clouds. The name Herodotus is Haridootus, i.e. Messenger of [Hari] God.
In Some Missing Chapters of World History P. N. Oak also explains that Shiva
was worshiped all over the world, even in the Vatican. The word vatican comes
from the Sanskrit word vatica, which means a bower or sylvan hermitage. He
explains that even the premises of the Vatican have many Shiva emblems
buried in their walls and cellars. Many such emblems have been dug up in
other parts of Italy as well. And some of those found in the Vatican are still
preserved in the Vaticans Etruscan museum.
Similarly, there is striking similarity in all major religions in the world and by
careful comparison, we can trace back the essence in all of them to the
teachings of the Vedic literature. We can understand how the Vedic culture
influenced Zoroastrianism, which influenced Judaism, which influenced
Christianity, which influenced Islam. However, each succeeding religion
became more distant from the original spiritual teachings and understanding,
until each one thought that, rather than offering truths and processes to be
followed, they promoted the idea that they were the only way, superior to all
else. This topic however is outside the scope of this article and I shall deal with
it some other day.