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ages subsequent to this great movement, they themselves, with the warlike
denizens of the Punjab, were driven from their native land, to seek the far distant
climes of Greece. The commercial people dwelling along the coast that stretches
from the mouth of the Indus to the Coree, are embarking on that emigration
whose magnificent results to civilization and whose gigantic movements of art,
fill the mind with mingled emotions of admiration and awe. These people coast
along the shores of Mekran, traverse the mouth of the Persian Gulf and again
adhering to the seaboard of Oman, Hadramant and Yemen sail up the Red Sea;
and again ascending the mighty stream that fertilizes a land of wonders, found
the kingdoms of Egypt, Nubia and Abyssinia. These are the same stock that,
centuries subsequently to this colonization, spread the blessings of civilization
over Hellas and her islands. The connection, therefore, which is so constantly
represented by Greek historians as subsisting between Egypt and Athens, as well
as Benotia and other parts of Greece, is perfectly natural and in fact is just what
we should anticipate from a people, who so highly honoured and deeply
venerated their parent state as to receive from its hands their sacred fire, and
their ministers of religion....
“And thus it was that the native of Indus and of the rocky heights of Hela, when
he became a settler in the Hellas, and thus it was with his polished descendant in
Athens who, though called a Greek, was as thoroughly Sindian in his taste,
religion and literature as any of his forefathers.
“Of the triple connection that links Egypt, Greece and the lands of the Indus,
there will remain no longer the shadow of a doubt, as the reader accompanies me
in the geographical development of the colonizations of Africa founded by the
mercantile and thriving community of Corinthus. This is past controversy; for
the Abusin, .. classical name for the Indus, is reproduced in Greece as the Coi-
Indus (Corinthus), that is the people of the Cori Indus.”
These people are known to history as Phoenicians. The early historians always
wondered where these great fathers of western civilization came from. But no
more. Now it is established that the Vedic Panis (who, in India, became Vaniks,
Vanias, and Banias) became, in the West, Panikas, the Punic race or the
Phoenicians. Although the modern Suez Canal, connecting the Red Sea with the
Mediterranean, did not then exist, there was a canal connecting the eastern most
estuary of the Nile to the Red Sea. The ancient people used this channel to go
from the Red Sea via the Nile to the Mediterranean. Our Phoenicians went ahead
and even set up the state of Phoenicia on what is the Syrian and Lebanese
seaboard today.
Although the Panis had to leave Sindh to settle abroad --- allegedly because they
had killed a king --- they took the sacred fire and holy men with them. According
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