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leads to a paradox of a ’history’ without a literature and literature

vvithout a history. The t’act of the matter is that the word ’Arya’

jjci not denote a race but was used to address a person of

noble origin. There are examples galore in our epics of queens

addressing their husband kings as ’Aryaputra’.
The Harappans of the Indus Valley have left vast archeological

evidence over a million square kilometer area from Iran and

beyond Afghanistan to Eastern UP and the Tapti Valley and yet

left absolutely no literary records. The Vedic Aryans and their

successors on the other hand have no archaeological record of

their existence. Thus, we have a concrete history and archaeology

of thousand of years but no literature and the ancient Vedic

Aryans, who left no history or archaeological records.
The Harappan society of 3000 B.C. precedes the DravidianTamil
literature by 2000 years, since the latter dates back to fist
century B.C. only. Thus, there can be no comparison between
Harappans and the Dravidians. The Harappans, we know, were
literate, but left no literature, while their so-called illiterate Aryans
have left a mass of literature behind. There is another hole in
the Aryan invasion theory; that geometry and astronomy were
borrowed by the Indians from the Greeks after Alexander’s
invasion. A cursory look at the Harappan ruins shows a very
well developed art of town planning with straight lines, squares
and rectangles, used in making streets, houses, courtyards, baths,
aqueducts and a drainage system. These could not have developed
without a thorough knowledge of geometry and mathematics.
’he late American mathematician and historian of science,
Seidenberg, has pointed to certain Vedic sacrificial altars called
’ajnasalas’ from the past Vedic period, which contained technical
Details for the construction of these. All these are detailed in
ulbasutras’, the mathematical texts of the post-Vedic period.
”e mathematics of ’Sulbasutras’ dates back to long before
00 B.C. The Egyptian pyramids of the Third Dynasty and
Before dating back to 2500 B.C. were most likely based on the
ed|c funeral altars known as the ’Smasana-cit’. Seidenberg has
Delusively proved that all ancient mathematics is derived from
lc mathematics or the ’Sulbasutras’. All this preceded
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Pythagoras, the father of the Creek geometry’. Thus, there js paradox

that the construction in the supposedly antinul

Dravidian-lndus sites, came earlier, while the instructions fo

building them are found in the Vedic literature of the supposedly

invading Aryans, who came much later.
Einstein often said, ’ A Theory must not contradict empirical

facts;’ the Aryan invasion theory does precisely that. Reverting

to ’Sulbasutras’, my grandfather was born well before 187Q

A.D., the time of the invention of the Aryan invasion theory. Hehad

no formal education, but was a scholar of all Shastras and

Vedic writings, including ’Sulbasutras’. He often posed me this

question:
”Nam chaturgun panchmil tako dwigun praman, va me asthi

se bhag de, shesh me Ram hi Ram.”
Stated simply
’Imagine any number and multiply it by 4, add 5 to the

product. Double this amount and divides the result by 8. The

reminder shall always be 2.’
This is an algebraic problem of the ’Sulbasutras’ when there

was no Aryan invasion theory, nor were the Vedic Indian,

considered ignorant, of any knowledge of Algebra as a corollary

to the so-called theory. Does it not prove that algebra as

explained in ’Sulbasutras’ existed well before the Greeks and

Egyptians came to know of it. We will revert to the other mass

of compelling evidence against the Aryan invasion theory later

but a mention here should be made that this move had farreaching

consequences on the Indian polity resulting into a

skewed and degraded perspective of our past and a permanent

Aryan-Dravidian divide. In the Amarakosa the Sanskrit lexicon

dating about 500 A.D., an ”Aryan is: mahakula-kulinarya-sabhyasabhya-sanjjana-sadhvah.”

This is unambiguous and means: ”ar

Arya is one who hails from a noble family, of gentle behaviour

and demeanor, good natured and of righteous conduct.” It has

nothing to do with race. Manu, the first man and a seer

much hated by the leftist and today’s Dalits, had saic

that people of all nationalities were Aryan or non-Aryar
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depending on their culture and conduct. The word Aryan denoted

very high moral code of behaviour and adherence to sacred

|avvs. Manu’s list of such people included those from all parts of

India, neighbouring countries like China and Persia, Kambojas

from the North East Afghanistan, Yavanas from North West

Afghanistan and beyond. The Dravida probably refer to people

of the south west of India and the south. The following texts

occur in an ancient literature:

”Praya arya jyotiragrah
Children of Arya seeks and are led by jyoti”
RV VII 33.7
”One who destroys life is never an Arya, and one who

desists from taking life is an Arya.”
Dhammapada 270
This clearly puts the Nazi’s out of the community of Aryans.

Ramayana of Valmiki, is not without a message:
”Aryah sarva-samascaiva sadaiva priyadarshanah
Arya-who cared for the equality of all and was dear to

everyone.”
The Ramayana I 1.16
The Holy Bible has two parts- The Old Testament and the

New Testament. The Old Testament is a Jewish litany and deals

with ancient times till the emergence of Christianity. To sever its

umbilical cord from its Jewish heritage the Christian Europe looked

East, mainly towards India to seek its origin from a new race or

civilization. This is the time when the word ’Aryan’ as a race was

invented, sometime in the middle of nineteenth century. There

were two civilizations in the East-Indian and Chinese. The

Europeans preferred the Indian Aryans as their forebears and

adopted the word Aryan to dissect themselves from the rest of

the people. With this master stroke they adorned themselves

with the nobility of birth and a higher civilizational pedigree.

Thus, anti-Semitism and a colonial drive were the main impulses

for the nineteenth century Europe to give themselves on Aryan
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heritage and invent the theory of the Aryan invasion of |ncjja

The logic of a superior race invading the lesser mortals. Th

author of this effort was Frederick Max Muller (1823-190i)
The similarity between Sanskrit and European languages

prompted the linguists to add their might to the anti-Semitic

impulse of Western Europe and give themselves an Aryan heritage

based entirely on a pseudo-scientific presumption. Colonel

Boden, Cod bless his soul,, established a Professorship of Sanskrit

at Oxford University, whose aim, according to Monier-Williams,

was ”...to promote Sanskrit learning among the English, so as to

enable his countrymen to proceed in the conversion of the

natives of India to the Christian Religion”. Later, prizes were also

offered to literary works that undermined Indian tradition. The

first holder of the Boden Professorship was Horace Hyman

Wilson (1784-1860). Writing about a series of lectures he gave,

Wilson himself noted, that ”These lectures were written to help

candidates, for a prize of £ 200 given by John Muir,... for the

best refutation of the Hindu religious system.” Frederick Max

Muller, generally regarded as the greatest Indologist and a Vedic

and Sanskrit scholar of his times, which credit he did not possess,

was favoured by circumstances to write extensively on Rigveda

with a view to denigrate Hindu religion. Later, challenged by his

critics on the inexactitude of his theory, he had to admit,

”whether the Vedic hymns were composed in 1000, 1500 or

2000 or 3000 B.C., no power on earth will ever determine!”

Max Muller combined in himself a romantic temper with a

Protestant missionary zeal. He wrote in 1868 to the Duke of

Argyle, then acting Secretary of State for India: ”The ancient

religion of India is doomed, and if Christianity does not step in,

whose fault will it be?” Another aberration in the so-called ”race

science” was the invention of the superiority of the European

whites over the blacks, which forced the British writer Nancy

Stephan to charge that, ”On examination it is found that the

European whites are at the top and the African blacks at the

bottom, with others coming in between.” While Max Muller

gave credence to the Aryan theory in England and Germany, his

friend, E. Renan popularized the same in France, and Sanskrit
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thereafter became a popular reading in the nineteenth century

Europe, especially Germany, the home of indology. However,

the credit for the first premise that European languages were a

branch of Sanskrit goes to Filippo Sassetti, a Florentine merchant,

who stayed in Coa between 1583 to 1588.
Now the fortunes turned. Germany had lost its self-esteem

after continuous defeats from the Thirty Years War to Napoleon’s

victories and found itself a pawn in the power game of the

contemporary great powers of Europe. As a reaction, the

unification of Germany began and was completed around 1870,

making Germany the greatest European power. The pride in its

Aryan ancestry played no mean role in resurgent Germany’s

new found strength. Their over-weaning confidence forced

contemporary Britishers to observe that- ”...a nation has been

born out of Sanskrit.” The British were already traumatized by

the 1857 revolt in India and were deeply conscious of the

reality that if India united under a single leadership, nothing can

stop the end of the British Empire. To them the obvious leaders

were the Brahmins, who had been respected for generations

and traditionally provided all guidance in matters temporal and

spiritual. This forced the British Government to remove all

Brahmanical influence in India and put Indian history on its

head, by using the missionaries, not only to spread Christianity

but to undermine Brahmanical influence and denigrate our past.

In this effort the greatest contribution came from Thomas

Babbington Macaulay (1800-1859), the Education Member of

the Governor General’ Council, who wrote in 1836: ”Our English

schools are flourishing wonderfully. The effect of this education

on the Hindus is prodigious... It is our belief that if our plans

of education are followed up, there will not be a single idolater

among the respectable classes in Bengal thirty years hence. And

this will be effected without any efforts to proselytize, without

the smallest interference with religious liberty, by natural operation

of knowledge and reflection, I heartily rejoice in the project.”

This diabolical plan was aimed to turn the strength of the Brahmins

against themselves by using their commitments to scholarship in

uprooting their own tradition. The assistance of the Indian
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educated elite in this regard was most valuable. Macaulay’s hired

agent in this effort was Max Muller. He, on a stipend of Rupees

one lac a huge sum at that time, was asked to undertake the

study of Rigveda and use this knowledge against India’s past.

With time as the German nationalism and its antagonism to

British interests grew, Max Muller had to do a volte face and

attempt to wean away Western Europe from their Aryan origins.

This was not an easy task, since Max Muller had already made

too many bargains with the devil. With the resurgent Germany

as the spearhead of the Aryan race, his own handiwork, and

Max Muller being a loyal citizen of England, his own theory

became an embarrassment, casting aspersions on his loyalty. He

had no recourse but to recant his own theory of Aryan race and

the Aryan invasion of India. Unfortunately, Indian academia

and leftist historians are still obsessed with the same old pseudoscientific

version of the race theory. What are the textual sources

that we can search for evidence?
The ancient Indian texts in addition to the four Vedas, and

100 Upnishads and other literary corpus consist of two epics i.e.

Ramayana and Mahabharata and 18 Puranas. The word Puranas

means ”that which had lived from ancient times” or ”a work

containing records of past events”. In addition to 18 Puranas,

there are another 100 Uppuranas. The sequence of the 18

Puranas is as follows:
/. Braham Pur ana
2. Padma Purana
3. Vishnu Purana
4. Sri Vayu or Shiv Purana
5. Bhagvat Purana
6. Naradiya Purana
7. Markandeya Purana
8. Agni Purana
9. Bhavishya Parana
10. Brahmvaivarta Purana
11. Linga Purana
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y2. Varah Pur ana
}3. Skanda Pur ana
j4, Vamcma Purana
75. Kurma Purana
16. Matsya Purana
17. Garuda Purana
18. Brahmad Purana
It js amazing to note that no author has attached his name to

any part of the Vedas or Upanishads and Puranas. The Vedas

are an important source of political history for two reasons.

First, which is unique, is the incorruptibility of the Vedic Text,

handed down obligatorily through recital by learned Brahmins,

who had memorized these with perfect pronunciation. Second,

the Vedic Sanskrit differed from the later or classical Sanskrit in

that the accent indicated the intended compound.
A study of the above literature raises a number of intractable

problems if the Aryan invasion theory is to be accepted. The

entire mass of Vedic texts has no reference whatsoever to any

invasion. Any attempt to justify the Aryan invasion based on

Vedic literature is flawed, due to selective references picked up

from isolated passages. The nomadic Aryans, by no means

possessed an organized instrument of war, unlike the Mongols,

who conquered half the known world, and yet according to

Western scholars the nomad Aryans, who had no knowledge of

the art of war or any worthwhile instruments to wage it, are

credited with the conquest of the main land mass from West

Anatolia to Babylon, to Persia, to Afghanistan right upto the

Indian heartland. The aggressive trait of the Aryans alone cannot

explain this great military achievement. Any invasion or war

attributed to the Aryans is only between the Aryan subgroups

or amongst members of the community itself.
In the entire Vedic literature there is not a single reference

to any information regarding the place of origin of the invaders

themselves. The Vedic exegesis too, such as the Brahmans,

Puranas and other texts, are also silent on the subject. An ancient
’flpwapp?
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primitive people arriving in scattered waves through a

continental movement, could not have successfully covered

the fact of their arrival from outside, nor suffer from a select’ ^

amnesia, and a collective loss of memory of any such odysse

There also does not exist any such mythology of the central

Asian desert or mountain region, except one of a riverine and

ocean culture in the literary corpus of these people. The oldest

texts in Rigveda only refer to the rivers of the Indian sub-continent

its climate and the topography. The Rigveda, consisting of 1,017

hymns and around 10,000 verses, the four Vedas and the related

Brahmans, Aranyaka and early Upanishads, all pre-Buddhist

running into 5000 pages, also do not mention any such event

No contemporary civilization or one before the Vedic can boast

of such a vast literature. Even if a portion of this was produced

outside, how could this be grafted on to a different continent

without leaving any trace of its place of origin. The inevitable

conclusion, therefore, is that this literature was indigenous to

these people in their habitat. The Vedic Sanskrit is a complex

poetry with precise metrical forms and an ideal language for

computers, because of its lack of ambiguity. To attribute the

knowledge of this profound language to primitive invaders is a

most unlikely proposition. The primitive invader matrix just does

not gel with the complex traditions of literature and civilization

recorded in the language of a highly civilized community. The

Vedic people identified with a high level of civilization and

possesser of a profound literature have been made an instrument

of the destruction of the so-called earlier Harappan civilization.

This is a bizarre fact of literary history, as pointed out earlier.

The highly advanced Harappan culture that had been destroyed

has no history or literature, while a much more advanced

language is left with no culture to hang on, both occurring in the

same part of the world at the same time, Thus the word Aryan

has no racial connotations. Buddha declared his religion as Aryan

and when Arjuna refused to pick up arms at the battlefield of

Kurukshetra, Lord Krishna accused him of behaving in an unAryan

or ignoble manner. It was not a racial slur on Arjuna.

Cyrus, the First, Emperor of Persia, also called himself an Aryan