The Sindhu : (Sanskrit for Ocean), is the broadest & one of the longest of the sacred rivers in Ᾱryavarta or Bhāratavarsha. Rising in a spring in the Himalayas near the sacred Mānsarovar, fed with glaciers & Himalayan Rivers, the Sindhu runs a course through (present Ladakh), supporting temperate forests, plains, & arid countryside, & flowing down in a southerly direction to Sindh to merge into the Ocean in a large delta. Rigvedic hymns apply a feminine gender to all the rivers mentioned therein but Sindhu is the only river attributed with a masculine gender. Sindhu is seen as a strong warrior amongst other rivers which are seen as goddesses & compared to cows & mares yielding milk & butter. In the plains, her left bank tributary (renamed Chenab) has four major sub-tributaries (renamed Jhelum, Ravi, Beas, & Sutlej). Her principal right bank has five sub-tributaries (renamed Shyok, Gilgit, Kabul, Gomal, & Kurram). Her northern part with its tributaries supports the Punjab region. The Sindhu has nurtured many cultures of the region. It is mentioned in the Rig-Veda as Sapta Sindhu, in Avesta as Hapta Hendu or Hindu (both terms meaning ‘seven rivers’); the Greeks named her Indos, the Romans Indus, the Assyrians Sinda, the Pashtuns Abasind, the Arabs Al-Sind, the Chinese Sintow, & others invented other names. The ancient Greeks referred to the natives living along her banks Indoi, but by 300 BC, Greek writers including Herodotus & Megāsthenes were applying the term to the entire subcontinent that extends much farther eastward – not to forget our Benevolent British Mai-Baap. Naturally therefore the name ‘India’ was adopted by the civilised creators of our Socialist Secular Republic born on 15th Aug. 1947, & then out of sheer pity for the uncivilised natives added, ‘India that is Bhārat’.
... "Amitrachates" may really be not a title but the actual name of the son of Sandrocottus. The dropping of the letter S as an initial sound in foreign names was a frequent practice among the Greeks. The Sindhu became the Indus and even Sandrocottus became Androcottus in Plutarch (Life of Alexander, LXII) as well as Appian (Syriaca, 55). If Amirachates is a name with an initial S omitted, we have actually... do not have the monopoly of the title whose Indian echo is "Shāhānushāhi". This echo occurs also in a mediaeval Jain book, Kālakāchārya-kathā, which speaks of Śaka invaders from the west of the Sindhu as "Shāhis" and their overlord as "Shāhānushāhi". 8 As for the title in another form than the Indian, Rapson 9 tells us about the Śaka and Pahlava rulers who preceded the Kushānas: "their normal... while Alexander had to fight against a divided India, split up into a multitude of states, his successor had to face a united and a much stronger India organised by an able leader. Seleucus reached the Sindhu about 305 B.C. The Greek writers do not give the details of his conflict with Chandragupta, but merely record the result. Seleucus had to purchase peace by ceding to Chandragupta territories then ...
... of these moving streams as their Master and Ruler. (3) To the Heaven the echo perseveres. And on the Earth the Sindhu by her lustre impels upward the sweep of Infinity. It is as though from the clouds pour out floods of rain. Indeed as she flows down, the Sindhu comes roaring like a mighty bull. (4) Towards you, O Sindhu, as towards their child the Mothers bellowing rush... – the Supreme Light, their seat and source. They are encompassing and flooding the whole universe including the three domains, the Earth, the Heaven and the mid-region. The foremost among them is the Sindhu; all the others are its branches and tributaries. Indeed, they represent the Supreme Power (Parashakti) and her emanations and manifestations and personalities.] (1) O WATERS, the Poet-Creator ...
... The sea of the superconscient is the goal of the rivers of clarity, of the honeyed wave, as the sea of the subconscient in the heart within is their place of rising. This upper sea is spoken of as the Sindhu, a word which may mean either river or ocean; but in this hymn it clearly means ocean. Let us observe the remarkable language in which Vamadeva speaks of these rivers of the clarity. He says first... ghṛtasya dhārā abhi tat pavante. This goal is, again, explained to be that which is all honey,— ghṛtasya dhārā madhumat pavante ; it is Ananda, the divine Beatitude. And that this goal is the Sindhu, the superconscient ocean, is made clear in the last Rik, where Vamadeva says, "May we taste that honeyed wave of thine"—of Agni, the divine Purusha, the four-horned Bull of the worlds—"which is ...
... nor identical with the Oxus or the Jaxartes. The geography-suggesting 5,53,9 shows it in a similar way to be only beyond the unknown Anitabha and the known Kubhā and Krumu as well as, of course, the Sindhu. But when the Panis are said in 10,108 to be on the farther side of the Rasā we are no longer in a geographical context. To meet the Panis, Saramā, the envoy of Indra, comes from 'afar' (verse 3)... the goal of the rivers of clarity, of the honeyed wave [described in the first verse], as the sea of the subconscient in the heart within is their place of rising. This upper sea is spoken of as the Sindhu, a word which may mean either a river or ocean; but in this hymn it clearly means ocean." Thus the objection based on the word "Sindhu" in 1,126,1 has no inevitable force of the earthly. ...
... Pandav brothers who released him from his captivity and allowed him to return to his kingdom in peace. This act of generosity rankled in his bosom and deepened his hatred. Jayadratha, king of the Sindhu or Indus country, and a friend and ally of Duryodhan came to the woods, and in the absence of the Pandav brothers carried off Draupadi. The Pandavs however pursued the king, chastised him for his ...
... Gangecha Jamunechaiva Godavari Sarasvatee Narmada Sindhu Kaveri jalesmin sannidhim kuru And it means: May the Ganges, the Yamuna. the Godavari, the Sarasvatee, the Narmada, the Sindhu and the Kaveri enter into this water. Page 5 These are the great rivers of the Indian sub-continent and it is along the course of the great rivers that the sacred stream of Indian ...
... Gangecha Jamunechaiva Godavari Sarasvatee Narmada Sindhu Kaveri jalesmin sannidhim kuru And it means: May the Ganges, the Yamuna, the Godavari, the Saraswati, the Narmada, the Sindhu and the Kaveri enter into this water. These are the great rivers of the Indian continent. They cover practically the entire riparian system of this great land. It is along the course of these great ...
... Gangecha Jamunechaiva Godavari Sarasvatee Narmada Sindhu Kaveri jalesmin sannidhim kuru And it means: May the Ganges, the Yamuna, the Godavari, the Sarasvatee, the Narmada, the Sindhu and the Kaveri enter into this water. These are the great rivers of the Indian subcontinent and it is along the course of the great rivers that the sacred stream of Indian culture flowed ...
... 276, 277, 324 Simyu, 354 Sind, 170, 186, 189-91, 206, 208, 219, 226, 227, 229, 230, 252, 261, 366 Sindes, 207 sindhu (river/sea), 413-14 Sindhu (= modern Sind), 208 Sindhu (= modern Indus), 284, 285, 413 Sindhu-Sauvira, 239 Siswal culture, 241 Śiva, 297, 298, 299 Śivas, 355 smoking outfit, 317 Sogdiana/Sogdians... ) 206, 314-19, 322, 325 hieroglyphics, 171 Hillebrandt, 253, 291, 297, 344, 374 Hilmand Civilization, 231 Himalaya, 189, 313 himavantah, 313 Hindu /Sindhu, 267 Hindukush, 282, 284 hiranya, 235-6 Hissar, 234, 311 History to Prehistory ..., by G.R. Sharma, 220, 250, 278-80 Hittite, 273, 274, 368-9 Hlopina, 311... 153-4, 156, 160, 162, 174, 191, 194, 197, 205-6, 216, 221-5, 227, 230, 232-3, 237, 239, 244-6, 254-5, 257, 260, 265-6, 297, 326, 366 end of, 186, 199 Indus people, 366 Indus river (Sindhu, Hindu), 189-90, 191, 284 Indus script, 164, 184, 202 Indus tributaries, 284 Indus Valley, 179, 186, 203, 216, 222, 233, 236, 245-6, 250, 253-4, 266, 282-3, 287, 366 ...
... Sati, 184 Satyavan, 242-6 Savitri, 242-6, 252-3, 307 Shakespeare, 228, 386, 391 – Hamlet, 386n – Julius Caesar, 386n – King Lear, 391n Shankara, 104-5, 309, 344 Sindhus, 330 Shiva, 106, 182, 184, 207, 297 Socrates, 196,297, 379 Soma, 330 Sri Aurobindo, 3, 8,9, 29n., 42,46,51, 90, 101n., 105, 120, 135, 151, 163, 168,212,236-7,248, 254-5, 270n., ...
... namely, washing. If fire controls the most material, the earth-principle, it is water, apas, that is the god in this region of the vital functions. The Vedas speak of the purifying streams of the Sindhus and the Srotas; they speak of the underground stream of rasa which Sarama, the Hound of Heaven, crossed to' come over to our earth. Water, in fact, does the work appropriate to this region. It is the ...
... foremost Assyriologist, S.N. Kramer who informed him that the Akkadian word was not sindhu at all but sintu, referring to woollen garments and having no relationship at all with India or the Indus! Kramer also denied that the greek sindon and the Hebrew sadin could be equaled with sintu or sindhu,. Thus, what had seemed to be a sure linguistic proof of Aryanism in Harappan Culture... head-and- Page 330 shoulders above scholars setting out to prove a preconceived thesis. Despite having ready to hand so useful an opinion as Pusalkar's that the Sanskrit sindhu occurring in Assurbanipal's library refers to Indian cotton and is the source for the Arabic satin, Greek sindon and Hebrew sadin, which becomes evidence for trade between Harappa and ...
... namely, washing. If fire controls the most material, the earth-principle, it is water, apas, that is the god in this region of the vital functions. The Vedas speak of the purifying streams of the Sindhus and the Srotas; they speak of the underground stream of rasa which Sarama, the Hound of Heaven, crossed to come over to our earth. Water, in fact, does the work appropriate to this region. It is ...
... the Divine as the All-beautiful {Bhuvana Sundara); he seeks Him as the " treasure of all Beauty" (Nikhila Saundarya Nidhi); as the " ambrosial ocean of the essence of all Beauty (Akhilarasāmrita sindhu) as the Vaishnavas say. And this vision does not come merely by wanting it. It usually comes when one is prepared to pay for it by giving up all the cravings of the senses and the impulses ...
... to the Severn", Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 17(3), pp. 177-94. Page 54 flourished in the very region where this civilization is located. The Rigvedic Culture of Sapta-Sindhu, the seven-rivered Indus territory, as well as of the Sarasvati Valley has all the necessary qualifications. And when we learn from Macdonell and Keith that in the Rigvedic chariot "sometimes ...
... 232, 417-21.550, 598 'Simhapura', 419-20 Simhasena, 219 Simoundou. 417 Simuka-Sātavāhana, 584 Sinal inscriptions, 353 Sind, 462, 467 Sindhu valley, 459 Sindhus, 162 Sinha. B.P..580 Sircar, D.C.. 6, 13, 18, 21.22, 23, 44, 143, 170, 171, 172.242, 243, 244, 248, 260, 269, 272, 279, 283, 362, 366, 395ff, 400, 401, 426, 429, 432, 448, 453... 44 Gymnetai/Gymnosophists, 241 Haertel, H., i Haihayas, 138, 209 Hailihila, 325, 326 'Hakra assemblage or complex', iii Hakusiri, 584 Hala, 477 Hapta-Hindu (Sapta-Sindhu), 333 Harappā Culture (Indus Valley Civilisation), ii, iii, vii, 336, 390-93 Harisena, 423 Harivamsa, 248, 530, 588 Harja-varman, 490 Harpagus, 466 Harsha, 2, 50, 228, 605 ... Paramesvara, 4 Paranavitana. A. P., 34, 35, 37. 231, 363, 370, 371 Parasāra, 132, 522 Paravatiya Ayudhajlvins. 250 Pāre-janas. 420 Pure-samudra, Pare-sindhu, 418 Pārendi, 448 Pargiter, F. E., ii, iii, 5, 9. 10, 68. 69, 71-8, 72-7, 92-7, 105, 107, 113, 127, 130, 137-8, 141, 148, 150, 182. 191, 470 Parīkshit.3, 4, 5, 6, 98, 104.224, 543-4 ...
... Sandrocottus, 86, 103 Sanjan, 17 Sankalia, H.D., 2fn., 5, 9, 20, 22, 38, 47, 53, 56, 59, 62-4, 68, 98-100 Sanskrit, iv, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30 Sapta-Sindhu, 17, 55 Sarama, 39 Sarasvati, 12, 15, 16, 38, 39, 62, 64 Sarayu, 15 Sargon, 1, 83 Sarkar, S.S., 21-3, 68, 97 Sastri, K.N., 57 Sastri ...
... Irānians - quite in contrast to their fellow-Aryans across the border. We cannot help agreeing with Sastri's inference: "The Vedic Aryans, if at all they came from outside,...must have lived in the Sapta-Sindhu [the region of the seven rivers in the ancient Punjāb] so many centuries before the Vedic period that they had lost all memory of an original home." 30 29. Highlights of Parsi History (Bombay ...
... Iranians - quite in contrast to their fellow-Aryans across the border. We cannot help agreeing with Sastri's inference: "The Vedic Aryans, if at all they came from outside,... must have lived in the Sapta-Sindhu [the region of the seven rivers in the ancient Punjab] so many centuries before the Vedic period that they had lost all memory of an original home." 31 29. "Appendix" to "The ...
... North and Shaivism of the South India have spoken of beauty not only as one, but the highest, aspect of the Supreme: The Divine to them is "bhuvan sundara", the All Beautiful. He is "nikhil rasāmrta sindhu", "the ocean of the entire ambrosia of delight"; He is "akhila saundarya nidhi" — "the treasure of all beauty". Tagore says: "vairāgya sādhane mukti, se āmār noy." 1 —"the liberation that is ...
... North and Shaivism of the South India have spoken of beauty not only as one but the highest aspect of the Supreme: The Divine to them is "bhuvan sundara", the All Beautiful. He is "nikhil rasamrta sindhu "—"the ocean of the entire ambrosia of delight"; He is "akhila saundarya nidhi"—"the treasure of all beauty". Tagore says: "vairagya sadhane mukti, se amar noy,"—"the liberation that is attained by ...
... military skill & courage, the Chedies under the hero & great captain Shishupala, the Magadhas, built into a strong nation by Brihodruth; even distant Bengal under the Poundrian Vasudave and distant Sindhu under [Vriddhakshatra] and his son Jayadrath began to mean something in the reckoning of forces. The Yadava nations counted as a great military force in the balance of politics owing to their abundant... personal questions alone that affected the choice of the different nations between Duryodhana and Yudhisthere. Personal relations like the matrimonial connections of Dhritarashtra's family with the Sindhus and Gandharas and of the Pandavas with the Matsyas, Panchalas & Yadavas doubtless counted for much, but there must have been something more; personal enmities [counted] for something as in the feud... attempt of Yudhisthere & Krishna to impose an empire on them? It is a significant fact that the Southern and Western peoples went almost solid for Duryodhana in this quarrel—Madra, the Deccan, Avanti, Sindhu Sauvira, Gandhara, in one long line from southern Mysore to northern Candahar; the Aryan colonies in the yet half civilised regions of the Lower valley of the Ganges espoused the same cause. The Eastern ...
... the Ārattas Pdnchanadas, 'natives of the land of five rivers', [Ib.45, 2110] and also Vdhikas, 'people of the land of rivers', comprising the Prasthalas, Madras, Gandharas, Khasas, Vasatis, Sindhus, and Sauvīras." We may note here not only the employment of the word rātta, though with a negative prefix, but also the grouping of several peoples thus designated with a reference to rivers. ...
... logical necessity of the Vedic conception of existence. Existence being a life, a soul expressing itself in forms, every distinct order of consciousness, every stratum or sea of conscious-being (samudra, sindhu, apah as the Vedic thinkers preferred to call them) demanded its own order of objective experiences (lokas, worlds), tended inevitably to throw itself into forms of individualised being (vishah, ganah... whether matter, mind or life and all material, mental & vital activities depend upon an original flowing mass of Energy which is in the vivid phraseology of the Vedas called a flood or sea, samudra, sindhu or arnas. Our power or activity in any direction depends first on the amount & substantiality of this stream as it flows into, through or within our own limits of consciousness, secondly, on our largeness ...
... pointed to the occasion and carried the caption "The Mother to Her Son". The "mother" in the poem is Vidula, a widowed Queen; her son, Sunjoy, has been dispossessed of his patrimony by the King of Sindhu. Sunjoy, however, has grown apathetic, and will not lift his finger to regain the throne of his forefathers. He feels that, circumstanced as he is, any attempt on his part to oust the proud conqueror ...
... Amritam, immortality or the true kingdom of heaven of the Vedic religion. These are the Vedic sapta dhamani & the seven different movements of consciousness to which they correspond are the sapta sindhu of the hymns. (4) According to the Vedanta, man has five koshas or sheaths of existence, the material (Annamaya), vital (Pranamaya), mental (Manomaya) which together make up the aparardha or ...
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