“In the dim past what we call Hinduism today was prevalent all over the world. Archaeological studies reveal the existence f Vedic religion in many countries.” — Kanchi Paramacharya.

“Some historians try to explain the evidence pointing to the worldwide prevalence of our religion in the past to the exchange of cultural and religious ideas between India and other countries established through travels. I myself believe that there was one common religion or dharma throughout and the signs and symbols that we find of this today are the creation of the original inhabitants of the lands concerned.”—Kanchi Parmacharya.

(Kanchi Paramacharya was the 68th Head of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam. Born as Swaminathan in 1894 and ordained as Sri Chandra Sekara Indra Saraswati, he attained Samadhi in 1994).

By London Swaminathan
Post No. 913 Date: 17th March 2014.

Tribes in Indian forests are the most colourful in the world. Probably they are the most virtuous people in the world, not corrupted by the modern vices.
Anyone looking at the word Gondwana in the encyclopaedias will be puzzled by the explanation. None of them knew that it was Khandava Vana that was corrupted to Gondwana. The burning of the Khandava Vana by Arjuna and Krishna 5000 years ago caused the world’s biggest migration. The Khandavas went up to South America to establish the Olmec, Mayan, Aztec and Inca civilizations. I have explained this in detail in my earlier posts ‘ARE MAYAS INDIAN NAGAS?’ and ‘AMAZING SIMILARITIES BETWEEN MAYAS AND HINDU NAGAS’ (part 1 and part2).

When the Khandava Vana (now called Gondwana) was burnt down by Krishna and Arjuna in spite of a big protest, they started migrating under the leader ship of Maya Dhanava. But Maya Dhanava became a friend of Arjuna and built him a new capital for the Pandavas known as Indraprastha, now called Delhi, capital of India.

When the Khandava Vana ( Vana= Forest) people who are called Gonds Tribe today , spread throughout the world taking parts of Indian culture. Gonds is the corrupted form of Khandavas. They are ardent Hindus. Till Mughal king Akbar destroyed their civilization in 1564. When Dalpat Shah died his wife Rani Durgavati ruled the country efficiently. She died heroically lie any Hindu woman fighting. All their names are pure Hindu names. They worship Parvati and Shiva. They speak different languages like Hindi, Marathi,Telugu depending upon the area they lived. They are spread over several states in Central India. They celebrate Hindu festivals such as Dasara and Naga Panchami. Like any other village community they have their own stories for everything.

They are well versed in arts and building. They have divided themselves into four different castes lie the four divisions of work in ancient Hindu society. They form the biggest tribe in the world. My research shows that they are the oldest tribe in the world. They keep the torch of Hinduism burning inside the jungles of India.

When foreigners saw similar features in different tribes in different parts of the world and the fossils similar to Central Indi in different parts, they used the word wrongly, like they used two ancient India words Arya and Dravida wrongly. Misusing and abusing words are foreigner’s usual tactics to deliberately confuse the people.

Kanchi Paramacharya was right in saying that there was only one culture in the whole world that was Hindu culture.

Gondwana is now used with a wider meaning. Part of the land mass that was before the continental drift is called Gondwana (Khandava Vana!). When Austrian scientist Eduard Sues found some fossils similar to Central India he used the word for big land mass.

Congo is Ganga!

Another word found throughout the world is River Ganga. In the middle of the thickest forest on the earth is the river Congo of Africa. People thought that no man has even penetrated this virgin forest before the Europeans. It was a wrong thing we are always taught in the history books. Vascoda Gama, Columbus, Magellan etc.“discovered something” is rubbish. Even before they went there, there were people using trade routes to these areas. Like we named the civilization we discovered on the Indus River ‘Indus civilization’, there was a kingdom named after the Congo river as Kongo kingdom. So the river gave the name. It is nothing but Ganga, the holy river of India. If we look at the rivers that join Congo we can see several Sanskrit names like Sanga, Giri, Pamba etc.

Even in Russia we see Volga river which is Udaka (water in Sanskrit). Even Vodka (Russian liquor=water) is from Sanskrit for water. Like Tamil villagers use the word water(Thanneer) for both actual water and liquor, Russians also used Vodka, Volga for the Sanskrit word Udaka (water).

When we read a river name such as Mahaweli Ganga in Sri Lanka, we know it is definitely named after Holy Ganga of India because of the proximity and the cultural contact from Ramayana days. But not many people know that Mekong river that runs through six South East Asian countries is Ma Ganga (Ganga Ma= Mother Ganges). Hindus ruled those countries for over 1300 years in the historical period. But there were only Hindus before other religions were founded. That is why we call Hinduism as Santan Dharma, the Eternal religion. Only Greeks and Persians called us Hindus, meaning ‘the people beyond Sindhu river’.

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