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NOTE: Rig
Veda, the first and foremost of Vedas (and the
world's most ancient literature), hardly mentions
Ganga and Yamuna rivers. Only one late hymn mentions
Ganga. For Rig Vedic poets, the river par excellence
was Sindhu, mentioned repeatedly, respectfully
and glowingly, in Rig-Veda. (This, as 'Return
of the Aryans' explains, is said not in arrogance,
for Sindhis too worship Ganga, but the fact is
that the earliest songs of Hindus were naturally
about their home-ground which began with the Sind
region, as the birth-place of Hinduism). 8. It was along
Sindhu river, that the world's first written language
or the script was evolved. They called it "the
language that can be seen".
9. Sindh was one of the
major home-grounds and cradle-grounds of Aryans
when they left Indian subcontinent in 5000 BC,
and returned back to their home-town and heritage
of Sind. The exploits and adventures of Aryans
of Sind can fill a thousand volumes. Unfortunately,
the way our history is written, they occupy only
a tiny place in our national memory.
Gidwani's Return of the
Aryans has also many other gripping tales about
Sind and Sindhis - their battles and romance,
adventures and exploits, valor and sacrifice,
art and culture, well before the dawn of recorded
history. It shows clearly :
" that Sindh, along
with Bharat Varsha, is the most ancient civilization
in the world - more ancient than China, Japan,
Mesopotamia, Iran and Egypt.
" that Sindh and Bharat
Varsha, were there before Rome was built, and
before Jerusalem, Carthage, Greece, Damascus and
Istanbul were founded.
" When Europeans lived
in caves, our people along Sindhu river had two-story
houses of brick and stone, with drainage system,
public parks, public baths, art-works, fountains
and granaries.
"
Along the banks of Sindhu, our Sindhi ancestors
founded the ancient order of Sanatanah, before
8,000 BC, and from this root of Sanatanah sprang
Sanatana Dharma - the ageless religion of the
Hindus. NEXT >>>>
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