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Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan
Thomas stayed in the court of King Gondaphorus for a long
time. All others fall along the route taken by Thomas.
The worship of Jesus is surprisingly still embedded in the
present day Hindu Temple worship, hidden in the namaavali
indicating their original Christian root.
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Impact of the Ministry of St. Thomas and Formation of Indian
Catholic Church (Hindu Sanadhana Dharma)
Hinduism as we know today is the product of syncretic combination of
various Philosophical and religious thoughts of the day. The major
formative force was indeed Christianity.
It is evident that the early Vedic religion underwent a drastic change
during the period following the 2 nd c, which culminated, into the various
vedantic teachings, which we know today as theistic Hinduism. Hence,
the changes must be traced through the history of inter-cultural process.
The major political influence of the period was the invasions of Greek.
Alexander the great invaded India. The invasion did succeed to a certain
extent. A Seleucidan kingdom was established in a part of India that was
conquered. Subsequently, several Greek kingdoms came into existence
in the Punjab, Multan, and Afghan regions. One of the most famous
Greek kings was Menander. Menander is known to be a scholar in
Buddhism. Greek and Indian art fused and gave rise to a new art form
called Gandara. It was the Greeks (philosophical form by Plato and the
Pythagoreans) who first introduced the idea of reincarnation to India. It
does not appear in the earliest Hindu scriptures (the Rig Veda) but was
developed at a later period in the Upanishads under the Greek influence.
Solar Astrology was also developed under the influence of Yavana
Samskara
Among the Indo-Parthian Empire was the Kingdom of Gondophorus in