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Myth Of Aryan Invasion Of India |
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By David Frawley |
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VEDIC IMAGE OF THE OCEAN |
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Now that the Sarasvati sites have
been found as mentioned in the Veda, and ships and maritime trade
in the Indus/Sarasvati culture, we should reexamine the Vedic
references to samudra or ocean, and take them seriously.
As an interesting sidelight, it is now known that Aryan migrations to Sri
Lanka from Gujarat began before 500 BC, if not much earlier, and
Brahmi inscriptions have been found in Indonesia to about 300
BC, thus making the nomadic Aryans strangely and quickly turn
into sea-faring traders and migrants. Yet such travel makes
perfect sense if the Vedic people were familiar with the ocean at an early period. Meanwhile the
Phoenicians were trading with the port of Ophir
(Sopara, Surpakara) north of Bombay during the time of
King Solomon, circa. 975 BC. This also shows the Vedic people
engaging in a maritime trade from central India at a period much too
early for the Aryan invasion of 1500-1000 BC.
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