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Hun : The Huns were a race of fierce barbarians who issued from the steppes of Central Asia & in the 4th century spread its devastating hordes over eastern provinces of the Roman Empire & the Gupta Empire in the India which extended from north Bengal to Kātḥiāwāḍ & from the Himālayās to the Narmadā. The Gupta emperor Skanda Gupta (ruled 455-67) succeeded in repelling their early invasions, but in spite of his heroic efforts the empire in its entirety did not long survive the shock it received from waves of Hun hordes & the uprising of the Pushyamitras, a dynasty of Thāneshwar (west of River Jamunā, between present Shimla & Delhi & Kanauj) founded by Pushyamitra. It maintained some sort unity till the days of Budha Gupta (476-95); thereafter the Huns pushed their conquests deep into the Indian interior as far as Eran in eastern Mālwā. They ravaged & occupied Mālwā, the kingdom established by the Mālavas (q.v.). Mihirgula conquered Punjab (then ruled by the Pushyamitras) making its capital Sakala (now Sialkot) his own capital. The Hun suzerainty rapidly spread in all directions, thanks to the vigour & energy of Toramāna (q.v.) & his son Mihirgula. The last-mentioned ruler is known not only from the inscriptions & coins, but from tradition recorded by Hiuen Tsang & Kalhaṇa, both of whom bear witness to his barbaric rule. He had further been identified with the White Hun King Gollas mentioned by the monk Cosmas Indikopleustes, & also with the Yetha ruler of Gāndhāra by Song Yun, the Chinese pilgrim. An account of his feats is also supposed to be preserved in the Jain stories about Kalki rāja. The expansion of the Hun rule in Central India seems to have been checked by the loyal feudatories of the Guptās, & the Hun imperial power was finally shattered c.528 by Yaśodharvarman of Mandsaur (western Mālwā) who belonged to the Shaiva Aulikara dynasty that ruled Mālwā since the 4th century, first as independent rulers then as feudatories of the imperial Guptās of Kanauj. Not only had the Hun king Mihiragula to pay obeisance at his feet, homage was done to him by chiefs from the neighbourhood of the Brahmaputra up to the Eastern Ghats & from the Himalayas down to the Rameshwaram. After the death of Emperor Harsha in 636 or 647, Yaśodharvarman was among those who tried to maintain the imperial position of Harsha’s empire but failed against the forces that competed to take over that empire. Petty Hun chieftains continued to rule over a circumscribed area in NW India & Mālwā & were absorbed into the Rājput population. So immense was the assimilative potentiality of the old Indian civilisation that the earlier invaders of the country, the Greeks, the Śakas, & the Huns were absorbed with the fold of her population & completely lost their separate identity. But it did not happen so with the Turko-Afghān invaders of India. In the wake of the Muslim invasions, definite social & religious ideas, which differed fundamentally from those of Hindustan, entered into this country & a perfect absorption of the invaders by the original inhabitants could not be possible. [Based on S. Bhattacharya & Majumdar et al’s Advanced Hist. of India]

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... whose one Page 555 incessant, unambiguous demand resounds through History and ever pierces across the night of time to the heart of the Indian who would worship her—" Main bhukha hun, main bhukha hun ." Page 556 ...

Sri Aurobindo   >   Books   >   CWSA   >   Bande Mataram
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... modern Italy, Spain and France. But India still lives and keeps the continuity of her inner mind and soul and spirit with the India of the ages. Invasion and foreign rule, the Greek, the Parthian and the Hun, the robust vigour of Islam, the levelling steam-roller heaviness of the British occupation and the British system, the enormous pressure of the Occident have not been able to drive or crush the ancient... during the weakness of the later Mauryas and was annulled by the reviving strength of the empire, was that of a Hellenised people already profoundly influenced by Indian culture. The later Parthian, Hun and Scythian invasions were of a more serious character and for a time seemed dangerous to the integrity of India. In the Page 439 end however they affected powerfully only the Punjab, although ...

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... were overwhelming and their armies, four years after August 1914, threatened Paris again. But the Americans had entered the war and the Allies, stronger and better armed than ever before, beat “the Hun” back. In August Ludendorff realized that defeat was inevitable and suffered a nervous breakdown. Now he and Hindenburg manoeuvred to let the politicians solve the enormous problem in which the German ...

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... with beautiful eyes, lips like a (ripe) Bimba fruit and lovely earrings. (38-39) "You will shortly see Śrī Rāma perched on the Prasravana mountain like Indra (who is believed to have performed a hun dred horse sacrifices in his previous existences as a condition precedent for being born as Indra) seated on the back of Airavata (the chief of elephants), 0 princess of the Videha territory! (40) Śrī ...

Kireet Joshi   >   Books   >   Other-Works   >   Sri Rama
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... bliss of the Gods of work who are Gods, for by their strength of their deeds they depart and are Gods in heaven. And this is the bliss of the Vedawise whose soul the blight of desire touches not. A hun dred and a hundredfold of this measure of bliss of the Gods of work/ is one bliss of the great Gods who are Gods for ever. And this is the bliss of the Vedawise whose soul the blight of desire touches ...

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... modern Italy, Spain and France. But India still lives and keeps the continuity of her inner mind and soul and spirit with the India of the ages. Invasion and foreign rule, the Greek, the Parthian and the Hun, the robust vigour of Islam, the levelling steam-roller heaviness of the British occupation and the British system, the enormous pressure of the Occident have not been able to drive or crush the ancient ...

... unity was made complete and became the very stuff of the life of all this great surge of humanity between the Himalayas and the two seas.... Invasion and foreign rule, the Greek, the Parthian and the Hun, the robust vigour of Islam, the levelling steam-roller heaviness of the British occupation and the British system, the enormous pressure of the Occident have not been able to drive or crush the ancient ...

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... very obviously civilised and even highly civilised. This conception will bring in all the civilisations historic and prehistoric and put aside all the barbarism, whether of Africa or Europe or Asia, Hun or Goth or Vandal or Turcoman. It is obvious that in a state of barbarism the rude beginnings of civilisation may exist; it is obvious too that in a civilised society a great mass of barbarism or numerous ...

Sri Aurobindo   >   Books   >   CWSA   >   The Human Cycle
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... Germanic? Brunehild was “Norse”, probably Icelandic; Siegfried came from Xanten, in the present-day Netherlands; the good king Gunther and his knights were Burgundians; and Kriemhild married Attila the Hun. Nevertheless, the Nibelungen Treue , the legendary loyalty of the Nibelungs, would become the highest praised of German virtues, and Himmler had it embroidered on the sleeves of his SS: Meine Ehre ...

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... Indicapleustes (Indian navigator), an Alexandrine Greek, in his Christian Topography, a book probably begun in A.D. 535 but not put in its final form till A.D. 547. Cosmas in one place speaks of a White Hun King named Gollas as the Lord of India and an oppressor of the people. Majumdar 4 comments: "It is generally believed that king Gollas in the above account refers to Mihirakula whose name is also written ...

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... very obviously civilised and even highly civilised. This conception will bring in all the civilisations historic and prehistoric and put aside all the barbarism, whether of Africa or Europe or Asia, Hun or Goth or Vandal or Turcoman. It is obvious that in a state of barbarism the rude beginnings of civilisation may exist; it is obvious too that in a civilised society a great mass of barbarism or ...

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... was a history of conquerors coming from the outside and establishing regimes of long or short durations in this country - the Iranians, the Greeks, the Parthians, the Scythians, the Kushans, the Huns, the Arabs, the Turks, the Mughals, the Portuguese, the Persians, the Dutch, the French, and the British. The scenario had been given a finishing touch by converting the authors of India's earliest ...

... order and liberty, culture and peace may at any time be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within." Naturally, the Mohammedans were not the first to invade India. Greeks, Huns and many other tribes had come to this rich land before them; and they had done what all invaders have been doing from the beginning of human history. But once they had settled down they had mingled ...

... better. Which nation was better educated - in the sense we understood and still commonly understand the word - than Germany?   Page 32 And yet we have no hesitation today to call them Huns and Barbarians. That education is not giving us the right thing is proved further by the fact that we are constantly changing our programmes and curriculums, everyday remodelling old institutions and ...

... anything better. Which nation was better educated—in the sense we understood and still commonly understand the word—than Germany? Page 148 And yet we have no hesitation today to call them Huns and Barbarians. That education is not giving us the right thing is proved further by the fact that we are constantly changing our programmes and curriculums, everyday remodelling old institutions and ...

... force of Karma against our adversary, the after-movements of which we have no power to control. Vasishtha uses soul-force Page 42 against the military violence of Vishwamitra and armies of Huns and Shakas and Pallavas hurl themselves on the aggressor. The very quiescence and passivity of the spiritual man under violence and aggression awakens the tremendous forces of the world to a retributive ...

Sri Aurobindo   >   Books   >   CWSA   >   Essays on the Gita

... be due to a memory of the clash of the two continents and their races. However, coming to historical times, we see wave after wave of the most heterogeneous and disparate elements – Sakas and Huns and Greeks, each bringing its quota of exotic material ­enter into the oceanic Indian life and culture, lose their separate foreign identity and become part and parcel of the common whole. Even so, ...

... may be due to a memory of the clash of the two continents and their races. However, coming to historical times, we see wave after wave of the most heterogeneous and disparate elements—Sakas and Huns and Greeks, each bringing its quota of exotic material— enter into the oceanic Indian life and culture, lose their separate foreign identity and become part and parcel of the common whole. Even so,—a ...

... may be due to a memory of the clash of the two continents and their races. However, coming to historical times, we see wave after wave of the most heterogeneous and disparate elements—Sakas and Huns and Greeks, each bringing its quota of exotic material—enter into the oceanic Indian life and culture, lose their separate foreign identity and become part and parcel of the common whole. Page ...

... history with the Dravido-Aryan civilisation which is taken as the basic foundation, the general layout of the whole structure. The first shock or blow the edifice received was from the Greeks and then the Huns and Scythians – the Tartars– something that struck at the most essential element of Indian culture and character. Psychologically the new leaven was brought in and injected by Gautama Buddha – the un-Vedic ...

... make you aware of the hidden deformation. Is it all right, Sweet Mother? It is quite all right. All my compliments for this appreciable progress. 9 February 1934 "Attila, King of the Huns in 434, devastated the cities of Gaul but spared Lutetia after being diverted by Saint Genevieve." I don't understand the phrase "diverted Page 34 by Saint Genevieve". Did Saint Genevieve ...

... we raise a great force of Karma against our adversary, the after-movements of which we have no power to control. Vasishtha uses soul- force against the military violence of Vishwamitra and armies of Huns and Shakas and Pallavas hurl themselves on the aggressor. The very quiescence and passivity of the spiritual man under violence and aggression awakens the tremendous forces of the world to a retributive ...

... information and communication technology are sweeping cultures out of their feet to globalize the culture itself? India has been a land of many cultures and people for several centuries. The Saks, Huns, Mughals, Pathans and Europeans invaded India through several centuries and finally settled down here itself. In poet-philosopher, Rabindranath's view, they all merged into one body and that is India ...

... Ashram is that it is crammed with lazybones. There. S.   January 22. 1979 Vision Vision of Saint Genevieve (!!) Page 86 (She protected Paris against the invasion of the Huns, in the 5 th century.) Why do I see her?   February 18. 1979 Vision Little "air pockets" are opened in my body (!). P.S. February 19: "My" body (or the Earth's body?) like a dead skin ...