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MILLIONS of Tamil Hindus recite one hymn every day, on Hindu God Skanda/ Kartikeya, known as Sknada Shashti Kavasam . It is to seek protection from god for all parts of the body from all sorts of evils such as enemies, diseases and interestingly evil spirits and ghosts! Kavasam means armour, protective shield.
When it talks about protection from ghosts and evil spirits, some voodoo customs are described. I was wonder struck to see the same description in the life of Zoroaster.
Regarding the date and birthplace of Zoroaster utter confusion prevails; no agreement among scholars until today. But one could say that he lived before Buddha and Mahavira. So, we can safely say that he lived before 2600 years ago, may be 3000 years ago.
Those who are familiar with Vedic Sanskrit can easily see the similarities between Avestan language and Vedic Sanskrit. Asva= horse (aspa) is found in most of the names.
Zoroaster founded Zoroastrianism. They followed Vedic Brahmins and worshipped Fire. Their emblem was Fire altar. They wore sacred thread like Brahmins. Zoroaster is a Greek word for Zaratushtra.
Kanchi Paramacharya (1894-1994) was a great linguistic scholar and he said that word Sourashtra (a region in modern Gujarat of India) gave the word Zoroaster. Their holy book Zend Avesta has the Vedic Chandas (Zend). He was proved right because the Parsees (Persians from Persia, now called Iran) came back to same Saurashtra area when Muslims started killing them. ( For more details see my old articles; links are given below).
His name in old Persian or Avestan was Zarath + ushtra (Ushtra is camel in Sanskrit; he was from a family of camel breeders is one theory)
Now let me start with the miracles
Miracle 1
When he was born, it is said that he laughed whereas other children cry. In the Farvardin Yasht, we are told that the whole of Nature rejoiced at the birth of the Prophet. Pliny (23-79 CE) in his Natural History writes that the vibrations of the child’s head were so strong that no hand could be held on it.
A black magician , DORASURAN, and his followers made several attempts to kill the child. He was kidnapped and thrown among a herd of cattle to be trampled to death, but a sturdy cow stood over him till his mother found the baby and took him home.
My comments
It is similar to the miracles in the life of Lord Krishna. He also had to tackle a lot of Asuras sent by the king Kamsa. Here we should note the word ‘Asura’ in Dorsuran. Asura is used as epithet to several gods in the Rig Veda, the oldest book in the world. Even today Tamils and others use this word whenever they wanted to say ‘great force’ – e.g asura vega, asura balam
Later mythology gave only negative meaning to this word. Even the kings of the Assyrian dynasty called themselves ‘Asuras’.
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Miracle 3
Then Dorasuran and his men placed the child in a wolf’s lair after the baby wolves had been slain. When the wolf pair returned, they wanted to devour the infant, but their jaws locked, and they were paralysed. A pair of she goats passed by and carried the baby with them. At last, DUGHDOVA, his mother found him and took him home.
My comments
Here also we see some similarities with lord Krishna’s life. Dughdova means, milkmaid, similar to Yasoda, foster mother of lord Krishna . Krishna also tackled Denukasura, a Calf Demon.
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Miracle 4
One last attempt was made by Dorasuran himself. He crept into the bed chamber of the sleeping child, javelin in hand, but as he lifted the weapon his hand was paralysed. The javelin fell to the floor with a clatter. He fled.
At the age of 20, Zarathushtra is said to have left his home to meditate in a cave, like a typical Hindu ascetic. His first vision of Ahura Mazda, Lord of Life and Wisdom, was received when he was thirty. Seven other visions, six communications with Ahura Mazda’s Powers, later known as the Amesha Spenta , Immortal Shining Ones, or Benevolent Immortals.
His first convert was his own cousin Maidhyomaongha, mentioned in the Gathas. The two men wandered from village to village, but none would listen to their preaching.
My comments
Here we come across a lot of Sanskrit words.
Gatha – song found in the Rig Veda
Amesha – Amrita , liquid or juice of Immortality
Spenta – Sveta = white= Pure
Ahura = Asura = great strength= great force
Mazda = Mahat = great = big
Maidhyomaongha- Vidya Maha Tunga = great peak of knowledge
Maidhya may be vidya/knowledge/education or
Vaidhya = doctor, medicine man
Zarath ushtra= yellow camel or camel lovers/breeders
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Miracle 5
At long last they were invited by Kavi Vishtaspa , the ruling prince of Bactria = Afghanistan to explain the new doctrine to him and his court. For three days Zarathushtra preached his doctrine. But certain courtiers became jealous. They smuggled dead matter, human hairs, bones, putrid nails, under the pillow of the prophet who stayed at an inn. The terrified innkeeper was made to swear silence or else he would be killed.
In open court the noblemen accused the Prophet of being a black magician. The evidence was produced Vishtaspa was enraged and ordered Zarathushtra to be flung into a dungeon. At the moment prince’s favourite horse Aspa Siha , was rolling on the ground in agony as his four legs disappeared into his stomach. Not all the Hakims of the land could cure him.
Let me continue in the next part how Zarathushtra did his fifth miracle and converted everyone to his faith.
Here we see the materials used in black magic. This is what the author of SKANDA SHASHTI KAVASAM also said in the Tamil hymn. Whoever recited the Tamil hymn can tackle the black magicians.
My comments
So the black magic materials were the same in Tamil Nadu, southern most part of India and north west part of India- Afghanistan.
The name of the prince also has the word Aspa= Asva. In India we had Dasa Ratha= Ten Chariots and Maharatha, Adhiratha etc. In Iran, we have Asva instead of Chariots.
Asva may be a dynasty name!
In the Mahabharata we have at least six names ending with Asva and six more names ending with Ratha.
All these show Indian influence. Moreover Hindu queens Gandhari and Kaikeyi came from Afghanistan and border area near Iran.
Afghanistan , Iran etc have Sanskrit words (Iran=Aryan)
Afghanistan = Upaghani+ Stan
Black magic people used human hair, bones, dead animals, putrid nails according to both this story and Tamil hymn. It has been there for 3000 years.
Here we see the horse name Asva Siha; Tamil literature and Sanskrit literature also give names of horses ad elephants. This is a custom followed by them from Epic Period.
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Kanchi Shankaracharya (Paramacharya 1894-1994) explains the word Purvottaram in one of his lectures and asked why it is called ‘East North’ instead of ‘East West’?
What is Purvottaram/EastNorth?
Purva = east; Uttara = north.
The actual meaning is ‘antecedents of a person’.
That is the beginning to end of a person.
That is all history of a person.
Then he says that in a circle , if you start from a point (east) and go clockwise you come to the point where you started. In India if you start in east and turn right (clockwise) and continue you come to south (India) and go to Kerala (west) , Gujarat and the Himalayas (in the North). That is why two directions(east and north) are connected like this.
Swamiji continues……………………
Take for example two Tamil words for direction. They say Down and Up for East and West. Why?
Down – keez – Kizakku- East
Up – Mel – Merku- West
They named ‘down’ for east because east of Tamil Nadu is sea (Bay of Bengal)- sea level or below.
They named ‘up’ for west because of the Western Ghats; going up and up.
(the above is my rough translation)
Behitsun Inscription
My comments:-
This evokes many thoughts:-
Hindus allocated clockwise direction for all positive things; they go round the temple in clockwise direction even today. Sangam Tamil literature says Tiger wont eat its prey if it falls on its left side. All the poets praised tigers for its pro Right policy!
My Editor in Dinamani newspaper, Sri A N Sivaraman used to give us hours of lectures (where I worked as senior Sub Editor for 16 years) about English dividing the world as ‘Far East, Near East, Middle East, Third World Countries’ etc. They imposed their views on the world.
So people name different things like countries, directions in the way ‘THEY SEE’.
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After reading Kanchi Paramacharya’s lecture for umpteenth time I turned the pages of Rig Veda for another reference. This is Parsu in the eight Mandala of Rig Veda. It is full of mysteries. It is full of Iranian and Mesopotamian connections. In every page Ralph T H Griffith honestly admits ,
The meaning is obscure; the meaning is uncertain ; ‘probably’ the poet means……..; it ‘may’ be……. ; Mr X says…..,Mr Y says…….. Mr Z denies; it is ‘improbable’ …………… etc.
In short no two clocks agree; no two foreign half baked, motivated, cunning , Christian translators agreed. All of them took to Rig Vedic studies to show that Bible is better than and truer than the Hindu Vedas. All jokers or cunning foxes……. sorry Scholars……… agreed on one point:
Hindus came from outside and destroyed local native population.
All Hindu dates are below 4100 BCE because the Bible says the earth appeared at that time.
They know if they say anything against such Christian belief they would be punished like Galileo, Copernicus, Miss Hypatia, Joan of Arc and Telemachus. Hundreds of these scholars were brutally murdered by Christian fanatics.
So, the foreign Sanskrit jokers (whom we call scholars) never touched the Bible or Koran.
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Now let us apply Kanchi Paramacharya’s principle to Parasu and other Persian names.
Cyrus the Great was Second Cyrus who ruled Persia (Iran) from 600 BCE (before Buddha d Mahavira) ; His real name is Kuru. The First Cyrus ruled from 652 BCE; he was his grand father.
Every Hindu knows that Pandavas and Kauravas were called the descendants of a great king called Kuru. The dynasty in our Puranas is known as Kuru Vamsam.
All the scholars in the world agree on one point. Mahabharata war took place before 1000 BCE. Archaeological evidence shows before 1500 BCE. Hindus believe that Mahabharata war took place in 3100 BCE.
So the Persian King Kuru was named after the legendary Kuru of India. He lived 15 to 20 generations before Mahabharata Kings. Like Paramacharya said we name the way we look at a things. Since the forefathers of Kuru (First Cyrus of 652 BCE) went to Iran form India they named him Kuru. Since the Greeks corrupted the spelling and changed it to Kuros and the English historians corrupted the name to Cyrus, we couldn’t recognise him. But government of India released a stamp for Cyrus the Great (Kuru of 600 BCE).
White people massacred the natives in America , Canada, South American Countries, South Africa and Australia and gave the names to the places from where they went. This fact is in all the encyclopaedias. This is corroborated by Dasaratha (letters/ Amarna letters) of Egypt, Dasaratha of Syria/Turkey, Pratardana of Syria/Turkey of 1380 BCE. The Bogazkoi inscription is an unassailable archaeological proof for Vedic civilization in Syria/Turkey.
All the Iranian names are later than the Rig Veda. In fact there is no historical record even nearer to the date of Rig Veda. Modern Sarasvati River details show all parts of the Rig Veda were Pre Indus Valley and done in Sarasvati River Basin Civilization. So now we have scientific proof.
These things clearly show the way of Hindu migration before 2000 BCE. Kassites who ruled Babylon region for over 600 years from 1800 BCE went from India.
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Now let us turn to Parasu
Parasu Rama , the avatar of Vishnu before Ramavatar, is known to every Hindu. Great Scholar A Kalyanaraman of Aryatarangini, shows the connection between this Parasu and Persia. He has beautifully analysed the schism between the Vedic Hindus and Persian Hindus. Though the Zend Avestha refers to all Vedic Gods, he showed them Ulta (inverted) ; I will give the long list of differences in another article .
4.Parsu occurs in one passage in a Dana Stuti in the Rig Veda as the name of a man; it is not certain that he is identical with Tirindira ; Sankhyayana Srauta Sutra mentions Triindira Paarasavya as the patron of Vatsa Kanva.
In another passage in the Vrsakapi hymn of Rig Veda 10-86-23, Parsu Maanavi occurs , apparently as a woman, daughter of Manu , but who is meant is impossible to say.
Though Parsu as a name of a person, does not occur in any other passage, Ludwig however sees in several other passages an allusion to the Parsus. Thus in passage of the Rig veda 10-33-2, he finds a reference to the defeat of Kuru Sravana by the Parsus; in another 7-83-1, he finds a reference to the Pruthus and Parsus, i.e. the Parthians and the Persians . Sayana interpreted it as broad axe (we are reminded of Parasu Rama)
There are more references in RV 6-27-8 etc.
Periplus knows a tribe of Parthoi in North India.
Before concluding, let us look at what Dr Agrawala says in his book ‘Panini as known to India’:-
Ashtadhayi of Panini 5-3-117
The Parsus may be identified with the Persians .
The Parsus are also known to Vedic literature – Rig Veda 8-6-46; Ludwig and Weber identify them with the Persians .
Gandhara and Parsa are mentioned in Behitsun inscription , brought under the common sovereignty of
Darius ,521-486 BCE .
Panini’s Paarsava is nearer to old Persian form Paarsa of the Behitsun Inscription . K ing Darius calls himself a
Parsa ,Paarsahyaa pusa – Persian, son of a Persian in
Susa inscription too.
greatest of the Yadavas
CONCLUSION
Persians went from India to Iran after some infighting. Kanchi Pramacharya says Zoroaster is Saurashtrar from Gujarat Saurashtra area and Zend Avesta is Chandas avastha; Chandas means Vedic Petry. When the Muslims started killing Parsees they came back to same Gujarat from where their forefathers left for Iran with Zoroaster. Now that the Marine archaeologists have found Dwaraka under sea they might have even left for Iran around the date when Dwaraka was devored by the sea, dated around 1500 BCE. But there may be earlier Tsunamis as well around Krishna’s time, around 3100 BCE. Because Hindu scriptures talk about one big Tsunami immediately after Krishna’s death. I myself have seen Dhanushkoti (Ramewaram) going into sea two times. Even before a big storm broke Pamban bridge in the 1960s Dhanuskoti buidings were half submerged in sea. After that storm, the buildings disappeared. And during 2004 Tsunami, further parts went down into sea. Whatever left is called Dhanushkoti today. The same thing might have happened to Dwaraka making the Parsis run for life (to Iran). Following hymn also links Yadavas of Dwaraka and Parsees of Iran.
YADAVA- IRAN CONNECTION
RIG VEDA 8-6-46
Note the highlighted mantras below; these are not satisfactorily explained by any one :-
HYMN VI Indra from 8th Mandala of RV
1. INDRA, great in his power and might, and like Parjanya rich in rain, Is magnified by Vatsa’s lauds. 2 When the priests, strengthening the Son of Holy Law, present their gifts, Singers with Order’s hymn of praiser. 3 Since Kaṇvas with their lauds have made Indra complete the sacrifice. Words are their own appropriate arms. 4 Before his hot displeasure all the peoples, all the men, bow down, As rivers bow them to the sea. 5 This power of his shone brightly forth when Indra brought together, like A skin, the worlds of heaven and earth. 6 The fiercely-moving Vṛtra’s head he severed with his thunderbolt, His mighty hundred-knotted bolt. 7 Here are-we sing them loudly forth-our thoughts among-the best of songs. Even lightnings like the blaze of fire. 8 When bidden thoughts, spontaneously advancing, glow, and with the stream Of sacrifice the Kaṇvas shine. 9 Indra, may we obtain that wealth in horses and in herds of cows, And prayer that may be noticed first. 10 I from my Father have received deep knowledge of the Holy Law I was born like unto the Sun. 11 After the lore of ancient time I make, like Kaṇva, beauteous songs, And Indra’s selfgains strength thereby. 12 Whatever Ṛṣis have not praised thee, Indra, or have lauded thee, By me exalted wax thou strong. 13 When his wrath thundered, when he rent Vṛtra to pieces, limb by limb, He sent the waters to the sea. 14 Against the Dasyu Susna thou, Indra, didst hurl thy during bolt: Thou, Dread one, hast a hero’s fame. 15 Neither the heavens nor firmaments nor regions of the earth contain Indra, the Thunderer with his might. 16 O Indra him who lay at length staying thy copious waters thou, In his own footsteps, smotest down 17 Thou hiddest deep in darkness itim, O Indra, who had set his grasp On spacious heaven and earth conjoined. 18 Indra, whatever Yatis and Bhṛgus have offered praise to thee, Listen, thou Mighty, to my call. 19 Indra, these spotted cows yield thee their butter and the milky draught; Aiders, thereby, of sacrifice; 20 Which, teeming, have received thee as a life-germ, Indra, with their mouth, Like Sūrya who sustaineth all. 21 O Lord of Might, with hymns of praise the Kaṇvas have increased thy power, The drops poured forth have strengthened thee. 22 Under thy guidance, Indra, mid thy praises, Lord of Thunder, shall The sacrifice be soon performed. 23 Indra, disclose much food for us, like a stronghold with store of kine: Give progeny and heroic strength. 24 And, Indra, grant us all that wealth of fleet steeds which shone bright of old Among the tribes of Nahusas. 25 Hither thou seemest to attract heaven’s fold which shines before our eyes, When, Indra, thou art kind to us. 26 Yea, when thou puttest forth thy power, Indra, thou governest the folk. Mighty, unlimited in strength. 27 The tribes who bring oblations call to thee, to thee to give them help, With drops to thee who spreadest far. 28 There where the mountains downward slope, there by the meeting of the streams The Sage was manifest with song. 29 Thence, marking, from his lofty place downward he looks upon the sea, And thence with rapid stir he moves. 30 Then, verify, they see the light refulgent of primeval seed, Kindled on yonder side of heaven. 31 Indra, the Kaṇvas all exalt thy wisdom and thy manly power, And, Mightiest! thine heroic strength. 32 Accept this eulogy of mine, Indra, and guard me carefully: Strengthen my thought and prosper it. 33 For thee, O Mighty, Thunder-armed, we singers through devotionhave Fashioned the hymn that we may live. 34 To Indra have the Kaṇvas sung, like waters speeding down a slope: The song is fain to go to him. 35 As rivers swell the ocean, so our hymns of praise make Indra strong, Eternal, of resistIess wrath. 36 Come with thy lovely Bay Steeds, come to us from regions far away O Indra, drink this Soma juice. 37 Best slayer of Vṛtras, men whose sacred grass is ready trimmed Invoke thee for the gain of spoil. 38 The heavens and earth come after thee as the wheel follows Etaśa: To thee flow Soma-drops effused. 39 Rejoice, O Indra, in the light, rejoice in Saryandyan, be Glad in the sacrificer’s hymn. 40 Grown strong in heaven, the Thunder-armed hath bellowed, Vṛtra-slayer, Bull, Chief drinker of the Soma juice. 41 Thou art a Ṛṣi born of old, sole Ruler over all by might: Thou, Indra, guardest well our wealth. 42 May thy Bay Steeds with beauteous backs, a hundred, bring thee to the feast, Bring thee to these our Soma-draughts. 43 The Kaṇvas with their hymns of praise have magnified this ancient thought That swells with streams of meath and oil. 44 Mid mightiest Gods let mortal man choose Indra at the sacrifice, Indra, whoe’er would win, for help. 45 Thy steeds, by Priyamedhas praised, shall bring thee, God whom all invoke, Hither to drink the Somajuice. 46 A hundred thousand have I gained from Parsu, from Tirindira, And presents of the Yadavas. 47 Ten thousand head of kine, and steeds three times a hundred they bestowed On Pajra for the Sāma-song. 48 Kakuha hath reached up to heaven, bestowing buffaloes yoked in fours, And matched in fame the Yadavas.