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Hinduism: What Really Happenned in India (PDF) - Oration

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<strong>H<strong>in</strong>duism</strong>: <strong>What</strong> <strong>Really</strong> Happened <strong>in</strong> <strong>India</strong> – M. M. N<strong>in</strong>an<br />

Bharata Invasion (1400 BC) :<br />

Bharata's Invasion from Afghanistan defeat<strong>in</strong>g Indra, created Bharata<br />

varsha. Bharata was a descendant of Kashyapa, who is named after the<br />

Caspian sea, where the lunar race of Aryans is thought to have<br />

orig<strong>in</strong>ated. Bharata's legendary capital lay <strong>in</strong> the Kabul valley, i.e. the<br />

Yusufzai territory of modern Afghanistan.<br />

" Accord<strong>in</strong>g to local tradition, the orig<strong>in</strong>al seat of the empire of Bharata<br />

was much further to the north-west, namely, at the site now occupied<br />

by the ru<strong>in</strong>s of Takh-i-Bahi, <strong>in</strong> the country of the Yusufzais to the<br />

northward of Peshawar." -- [ Mah.wh.48n.2 ]<br />

From this base, he descended onto the pla<strong>in</strong>s of <strong>India</strong>. There he defeated<br />

Indra [ Mah.wh.45 ], a descendant of the ancestor-god Indra, earn<strong>in</strong>g<br />

himself the title "most renowned of the Lunar race" [ Mah.wh.47 ]. He<br />

then conquered the Upper Ganges valley, exceed<strong>in</strong>g Indra's dom<strong>in</strong>ion.<br />

`Bharatavarsha' was conf<strong>in</strong>ed to a part of the Indo-Gangetic valley.<br />

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