11-08-2005, 04:07 AM
This entire area, upto the Oxus/Jaxartes River and the Syr River were known to the Indians in ancient times. The rivers were known as the Sihoon and Jihoon.
They are referred to in the Mahabharata and in Raghuâs Digvijay by Kalidas.
There is plenty of evidence of the spread of the IVC or the Sarasvati Sindhu civilization
into these areas.
Kandhar. / Gandhara, Kamboj etc are quite commonly known.
It should not be unexpected to find tribes and people moving back and forth.
Looking closer these areas are not the barren areas as portrayed by Western writers.
The Bactrian. Marghiana complex, NW of Afghanistan is quite fertile, and evidence of irrigation (canal complexes) goes back to the years 2000 BCE or so at least.
Contrary to European writerâs assertions, the Greeks did not bring prosperity to this area, but there is little evidence that they contributed anything at all.
Then there is also, again contrary to Western authors' assertions, there was no wholesale ldestruction and burning of the Greek settlements in these areas by some nomadic barbaric tribes.
Undoubtedly the Greeks established some kind of presence, but also the local powers threw off the yoke, and carried on to establish their empire from Central Asia to the Bay of Bengal.
There is no difference in the ethnicity of the people known to us as the Huns, the Sakas, and the Kushans.
We finds Hun villages all through Northern India down to Madhya Pradesh. The Huns are found in the Jats and the Gujars.
Athla, " Attila" is still a commn name in Haryana
Ravi
They are referred to in the Mahabharata and in Raghuâs Digvijay by Kalidas.
There is plenty of evidence of the spread of the IVC or the Sarasvati Sindhu civilization
into these areas.
Kandhar. / Gandhara, Kamboj etc are quite commonly known.
It should not be unexpected to find tribes and people moving back and forth.
Looking closer these areas are not the barren areas as portrayed by Western writers.
The Bactrian. Marghiana complex, NW of Afghanistan is quite fertile, and evidence of irrigation (canal complexes) goes back to the years 2000 BCE or so at least.
Contrary to European writerâs assertions, the Greeks did not bring prosperity to this area, but there is little evidence that they contributed anything at all.
Then there is also, again contrary to Western authors' assertions, there was no wholesale ldestruction and burning of the Greek settlements in these areas by some nomadic barbaric tribes.
Undoubtedly the Greeks established some kind of presence, but also the local powers threw off the yoke, and carried on to establish their empire from Central Asia to the Bay of Bengal.
There is no difference in the ethnicity of the people known to us as the Huns, the Sakas, and the Kushans.
We finds Hun villages all through Northern India down to Madhya Pradesh. The Huns are found in the Jats and the Gujars.
Athla, " Attila" is still a commn name in Haryana
Ravi