01-09-2006, 05:49 PM
thanks both of you. other replies sought and welcome.
and hauma hamiddha, are you a parsee if you dont mind??
would the indian/sanskrit version of your moniker mean Soma Samiddha??
also you said - While Zarathushtra was pretty inclined towards monotheism in his reform, he did not dispense the old Indo-Iranian religion entirely.
so do you imply that Zorathshtra sort of did a brahmo samaj on existing vedic religion in iran and came up with a repackaged version??
i always have had this suspision at the back of my mind - if zorastrianism is younger than hinduism (and it is - language of avesta is more developed than language of rg veda) and if its pretty much same as hinduism in theological content except that their Ahuras (persian word for sanskrit word asura = ahura, just like persian for sindhu = hindu) are the good guys while our asuras are the bad guys, and if iranians indeed have emigrated from india (as both indian and iranian records suggest they did) -
then the clear picture that emerges is that, one extraordinary person sort of highjacked the whole theology (to have one to his own name,) and introduced some cosmetic changes, whilest retaining the core values. also often in breakaway factions, the good guys according to one culture is considered as the bad guys.
am i wrong in my hunch??
if i am - then what explains this similar-yet-oposite-ness of zorastrianism vis.a.vis hinduism??
sushmita i shall check out the references you made and then get back, though i had already been through the first of them (from which i came to know that we both have records saying that persians emigrated from india).
finally, can anyone shed light on this issue in my OP.
>>>>>>>>>(though if i remember right the name persia come from purush/puru, descendant of manu.
does anyone know of a book or website from where i can learn about the descandants of manu and who went which way??)<<<<<<<<<
is there a thread here at IDF, which discusses the hindu story of manu's descendants and who then went on to father which people??
if there isnt a thread, can we start one??
and hauma hamiddha, are you a parsee if you dont mind??
would the indian/sanskrit version of your moniker mean Soma Samiddha??
also you said - While Zarathushtra was pretty inclined towards monotheism in his reform, he did not dispense the old Indo-Iranian religion entirely.
so do you imply that Zorathshtra sort of did a brahmo samaj on existing vedic religion in iran and came up with a repackaged version??
i always have had this suspision at the back of my mind - if zorastrianism is younger than hinduism (and it is - language of avesta is more developed than language of rg veda) and if its pretty much same as hinduism in theological content except that their Ahuras (persian word for sanskrit word asura = ahura, just like persian for sindhu = hindu) are the good guys while our asuras are the bad guys, and if iranians indeed have emigrated from india (as both indian and iranian records suggest they did) -
then the clear picture that emerges is that, one extraordinary person sort of highjacked the whole theology (to have one to his own name,) and introduced some cosmetic changes, whilest retaining the core values. also often in breakaway factions, the good guys according to one culture is considered as the bad guys.
am i wrong in my hunch??
if i am - then what explains this similar-yet-oposite-ness of zorastrianism vis.a.vis hinduism??
sushmita i shall check out the references you made and then get back, though i had already been through the first of them (from which i came to know that we both have records saying that persians emigrated from india).
finally, can anyone shed light on this issue in my OP.
>>>>>>>>>(though if i remember right the name persia come from purush/puru, descendant of manu.
does anyone know of a book or website from where i can learn about the descandants of manu and who went which way??)<<<<<<<<<
is there a thread here at IDF, which discusses the hindu story of manu's descendants and who then went on to father which people??
if there isnt a thread, can we start one??