INTRODUCTION
“I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the
Ganges,
astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis and so on… We shouldn’t doubt that
they are a very ancient people, as when they were civilised and sage, we
were just uncouth.”
Voltaire
(Lettres sur l’origine des sciences et sur celle des peuples de l’Asie, 1777).
“All things, without exception, originated from India. Directly or indirectly,
all countries are originally no more than Indian settlements.”
Friedrich von Schlegel
(Geschichte der alten und neuen Literatur, 1812)
that is, we encourage you to follow the Indian experimental methodology (sacetasām anubhavaḥ pramānam tatra
kevalam), without accepting or refusing a priori any suggestion or guidance — and to scout the forest personally
in search of those very fruits.
“The Existent is One, but the sages express it variously; they
say Agni, Yama, Mātariśvan”, as the Ṛg Veda (I.CLXIV.46)
told us some thousands of years before the dark age in
which we now live — ekaṁ sat, viprā bahudhā vadanti.
Thus, all the deities of
bhāgavatī śakti.
aghaṭana-ghaṭana-paṭīyasī
Sanskrit mātar for mother: it can doubtless be linked to
the Greek méter, Latin mater and the Celtic methir, yet its
relation with the Tamiḻ ammā is not so self-evident.
between Tamiḻ lexical roots and the most ancient layers of
Sanskrit: the Vedic language has, for instance, ambā as a
synonym of mātar, which clearly points to modern Tamiḻ
ammā. The Sanskrit for brother, bhrātṛ, also seems intuitively to be as near to the Greek phrāter and the Latin frāter
as it is distant from the Tamiḻ sodara, but here the ancient
āryabhaṣa lends us a hand, showing how the word brother
was sometimes rendered in the Vedas as sodara (so-udara:
co-uterine), which is exactly the same as in modern Tamiḻ.
The translation of father, too, although often used by Max
Müller as a sort of mahāvākya for supporting his invasion
theory, can provide some hints about the close relationship of Vedic and Tamiḻ: the Tamiḻ appā seems to have no
correspondence to the Sanskrit pitār (Greek patēr, Latin
pater)
the so-called brāhmī characters, the same system found on
three thousand tablets collected from the Indo-Sarasvatī
archaeological sites and regarded as an archaic form of
Vedic due to the many recurrent terms they share with the
Ṛg Veda: indraḥ, atri, bhaga, arka, kaśyapa, bhadra, aśva,
apaḥ, dāśaḥ, agniḥ, dvār, īśvar, ahiḥ, ṛg, gnā, aryamā etc.
(Colin Renfrew, Archaeology and Language).
appear to be multiple forms created by one single matrix,
ekam bījaṁ bhandhā yaḥ karoti.
theIndo-Sarasvatī
brāhmī
inscriptions,
some
archaeologists
(especially
Shikaripura
Ranganatha Rao and Subhash Kak) the brāhmī
unintelligible
sentences
through
a
form
of subtle vision known as ākāśa lipi, some
of
which
he
noted
down
in
devanāgarī
āryabhaṣa, and one (in section VII) : annam na nindhyāt,
annam na paricakṣita — “great is the joy of those who thrive
on Matter and are possessed by it, rich with herds and
full of glory”, annādo annavān kīrtyā mahān paśubhiḥ saha.
radius (trijyā) by means of Pi, where the p actually stands for
paridhi vyās anupāt (circumference-radius ratio). The American mathematician Abraham Seidenberg demonstrated
how Greek, Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics (including the Pythagorean Theorem) are derived from older Indian
mathematical concepts, particularly from those exposed
in the Śulva-Sūtra, a text datable to 2000 BCE at the latest:
the ṛṣi,
— purānamatyeva na sādhu sarvam (echoed in Horace’s laudatori temporis acti) — and we will not take
India’s current backwardness and extreme poverty
to be suitable flags of some ideal sādhūnām rājyam.
On the contrary we believe that Kubera, the God of
Wealth, is one dutiful manifestation of the Divine,
(Enzyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften in
Grundisse). We will attempt through this ‘pilgrimage to
the sources’ to rediscover the only and everlasting spring
from which all the myriad other streams originated.
NOTE
As Swarajya Prakash Gupta documents in the quoted The
Indus-Saraswati Civilization, some of the horse skeletons
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found
We tend to agree with Shikaripura Ranganatha Rao’s
opinion as expressed in Dawn and Devolution of the
Indus Civilization, where the same deity is identified as
the god Agni, represented in a three-fold shape which
Vedic seers knew very well. This would also match
the inscription on the statue, describing the god as
“delicious and flaming in three ways”, rama-tridhā-oṣa.
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Budha (Mercury), Śukra (Venus), Maṅgala (Mars), Guru
(Jupiter) and Śani (Saturn).
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Starting from the Spring solstice, their names were:
caitra, vaiśākha, jyaiṣṭha, āśāḍha, śrāvaṇa, bhādrapada,
āśvina, kārttika, mārgaśīrṣa, pauṣa, māgha, phalguna.
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For a perfect understanding of these words see the
interpretation provided in the Aitareya Upaniṣad, IV.4-6.
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