Who were Aryans?

[the_kaur]

Re: Who were Aryans?

@Southie

It ha been said the Dravidians who occupied modern day Pam and north India were driven south by Aryans. Otherctheory iscfolks from central Asia aassimilated and formed the “Aryan” civilization. The vanaras described in Ramayana may be the natives.

They say the Vedas and Upanishads were written by Aryans. But sharabee the kaurand babloos probably know the answer (and queerst and Kaka when they show up)

The most ancient text is Manusmriti and it mentions that Raja Manu was from Dravidsesh-ah, if it regards king of dravidians in highest regard then their is no doubt that aryans regarded dravidians in very high esteem:)

@muqawwee123

Yes Southie Uncle one of the theories suggests that Vedas were written or reshaped by Aryans.

French historian Danielou, for instance, maintains that the original Vedas « were an oral Dravidian tradition, which was reshaped by the Aryans and later put down in Sanskrit ».

According to Danielou, the Mahabarata is the story of how the low caste Dravidians = the Pandavas, revolted against the high caste Aryans =the
Kauravas, who had enslaved them during their conquest - and won, **helped by the dark-skinned Krishna, a Dravidian of course. **Danielou finds lineage between the Vedic religion and the Persian religion (Zarathustra), as well as the Greek Gods; the problem is that he seems to imply that the Vedic religion may have sprung from the Zoroastrian creed! He also puts down all Vedic symbols as purely physical signs: for instance Agni is the fire that should always burn in the house’s altar. Finally, he sees in the Rig-Veda “only a remarkable document on the mode of life, society and history of the Aryans”.

(Histoire de l’Inde, page 62)

All characters in Mahabharat was decendent of Maharaja Yayati, Bhagwan krishna was from lineage of Yadu, Kaurav and Pandavs were cousins:), as far as Swastika is concerned it is found in native american civilization as well:)

@Ali_Syed

Gandhara cvilization which existed in Northern Pakistan was part of Central asia, and many people including Sakas, Huns, Greeks, Scythians, Mongols etc have been rampaging the areas over the centuries.

None of these tribes have any mention in Vedic and post vedic literature, Scythians means Jats sneaked in at the time of the king Kushan in 3AD:)

@muqawwee123

But wasn’t Gandhara Civilisation existed in areas like Taxila and Peshawer, which are nearer to Afghanistan (Central Asia), where as Pandavs and Kauravs fought war in Kurkshetra near Delhi.

The mother of Kaurvas was Gandhari from Kandhar, her brother Shakuni lost his empire to some king:),Mahabharat covers entire region from Kandhar to Assam,Praagyjyotish to east to the tamil nadu in south, Ramayan even more primitive, hails Hanuman from TamilNadu and RakshasRaj Ravan, a brahmin by birth, as king of Lanka:)