02-11-2007, 12:28 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-ishwa+Feb 10 2007, 10:46 PM-->QUOTE(ishwa @ Feb 10 2007, 10:46 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Thus, it is crystal clear, thanks to Digvijay for the textplaces, that Rajput as name for the royal class is just a continuation of the ancient KShatriya/Raajaputra class. Some families disappeared (possibly with loss of status and profession), some did reappear through minor or subbranches here and there, but also new ones appeared on the scene.
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We have to see whether Rajaputarta or Rajaputartava can be substituted for a class of people like Rajputs ,may be Bodhi and Bharatvarsha can enlighten us.
However Persian texts are quite crystal about it.
When we read History of rise of Muhammedan power in India ,Fariesta has written an Introductory Chapter on Hindus and his narrations about Hindu religion and mythology as heard from contemporary people is fairly a true account and we can not doubt his other narrations about Indian people without any reason.
He has specially taken up the issue of origin of Rajputs and mentions that rajputs are not Kshatriyas as per what he heard from Indian peole and ascribe them a later identity ...
http://persian.packhum.org/persian/
Quote Fariesta..
Some of the Hindoos assert, that the tribes of Brahmin and Kshetry existed from time immeÂmorial, but that the Rajpoots are a modern tribe, only known since the beginning of the Kulyoog. The same is related of many other different tribes. The Rajpoots attained power since the death of Raja Vikramajeet, from whom is derived the present Hindoo era, being something more than 1600 years. The origin of the Rajpoots is thus related. The rajas, not satisfied with their married wives, had frequently children by their female slaves, who, although not legitimate successors to the throne, were styled Rajpoots, or the children of the rajas, and the children of Raja Sooruj, whose history we shall now relate, were the first to whom the name of rajpoot was given. The population of India, like that of other parts of the globe, arose from the descendants of Noah. After the flood, Noah's three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japhet,..........
Almost same story is told in another version titled...
History of India Kamgar Husyani Garyat Han Hawajah.
So I feel like other modern historians that Rajput is a later group and identity seprate from the ancient Kshatriyas.
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We have to see whether Rajaputarta or Rajaputartava can be substituted for a class of people like Rajputs ,may be Bodhi and Bharatvarsha can enlighten us.
However Persian texts are quite crystal about it.
When we read History of rise of Muhammedan power in India ,Fariesta has written an Introductory Chapter on Hindus and his narrations about Hindu religion and mythology as heard from contemporary people is fairly a true account and we can not doubt his other narrations about Indian people without any reason.
He has specially taken up the issue of origin of Rajputs and mentions that rajputs are not Kshatriyas as per what he heard from Indian peole and ascribe them a later identity ...
http://persian.packhum.org/persian/
Quote Fariesta..
Some of the Hindoos assert, that the tribes of Brahmin and Kshetry existed from time immeÂmorial, but that the Rajpoots are a modern tribe, only known since the beginning of the Kulyoog. The same is related of many other different tribes. The Rajpoots attained power since the death of Raja Vikramajeet, from whom is derived the present Hindoo era, being something more than 1600 years. The origin of the Rajpoots is thus related. The rajas, not satisfied with their married wives, had frequently children by their female slaves, who, although not legitimate successors to the throne, were styled Rajpoots, or the children of the rajas, and the children of Raja Sooruj, whose history we shall now relate, were the first to whom the name of rajpoot was given. The population of India, like that of other parts of the globe, arose from the descendants of Noah. After the flood, Noah's three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japhet,..........
Almost same story is told in another version titled...
History of India Kamgar Husyani Garyat Han Hawajah.
So I feel like other modern historians that Rajput is a later group and identity seprate from the ancient Kshatriyas.