Ancient African Kings Of India
By
Dr. Clyde Winters
Ethiopians have had very intimate relations with Indians. In fact, in antiquity the Ethiopians ruled much of India. These Ethiopians were called the Naga. It was the Naga who created Sanskrit.
A reading of ancient Dravidian literature which dates back to 500 BC, gives us considerable information on the Naga. In Indian tradition the Naga won central India from the Villavar (bowmen) and Minavar (fishermen).
The Naga were great seamen who ruled much of India, Sri Lanka and Burma. To the Aryans they described as half man and snake. The Tamil knew them as warlike people who used the bow and noose.
The earliest mention of the Naga, appear in the Ramayana , they are also mentioned in the Mahabharata. In the Mahabharata we discover that the
Naga had the capital city in the Dekkan, and other cities spread between the Jumna and Ganges as early as 1300 BC. The Dravidian classic, the Chilappathikaran made it clear that the first great kingdom of India was
Naganadu.
The Naga probably came from Kush-Punt/Ethiopia. The Puntites were the greatest sailors of the ancient world. In the Egyptian inscriptions there is mention of the Puntite ports of Outculit, Hamesu and Tekaru, which corresponds to Adulis, Hamasen and Tigre.
In Sumerian text, it is claimed that the Puntites traded with the people of the Indus Valley or Dilmun. According to S.N. Kramer in The Sumerians, part of Punt was probably called Meluhha, and Dilmun was probably the ancient name of the Indus Valley. (Today some scholars maintain that Oman, where we find no ancient cities was Dilmun and the Indus Valley may have been Meluhha).
Ancient Ethiopian traditions support the rule of Puntites or Ethiopians of India. In the Kebra Nagast, we find mention of the Arwe kings who ruled India. The founder of the dynasty was Za Besi Angabo. This dynasty according to the Kebra Nagast began around 1370 BC. These rulers of India and Ethiopia were called Nagas. The Kebra Nagast claims that ” Queen Makeda “had servants and merchants; they traded for her at sea and on land in the Indies and Aswan”. It also says that her son Ebna Hakim or Menelik I, made a campaign in the Indian Sea; the king of India made gifts and donations and prostrated himself before him”. It is also said that Menalik ruled an empire that extended from the rivers of Egypt (Blue Nile) to the west and from the south Shoa to eastern India”, according to the Kebra
Nagast. The Kebra Nagast identification of an eastern Indian empre ruled by
the Naga, corresponds to the Naga colonies in the Dekkan, and on the East
coast between the Kaviri and Vaigai rivers.
The presence of Meluhhaites/ Puntites in India may expain the Greek tradition of Kusites ruling India up to the Ganges. It would also explain the Aryan traditions of Mlechchas ( Sanskrit name for some of the non-Aryan people) as one of the aboriginal groups of India. Many scholars associate the name Mlechchas with Meluhha.
The major Naga tribes were the Maravar, Eyinar, Oliyar, Oviyar, Aru-Valur and Parathavar. The Nagas resisted the invansion of the Cholas. In the Kalittokai IV,1-5, the Naga are described as being “of strong limbs and hardy frames and fierce looking tigers wearing long and curled locks of hair.” The Naga kings of Sri Lanka are mentioned in the: Mahawanso, and are said to have later become Dravidians, as testified to by the names of these people: Naganathan, Nagaratnam, Nagaraja and etc.
The major gift of the Naga to India was the writing system: Nagari. Nagari is the name for the Sanskrit script. Over a hundred years ago Sir William Jones, pointed out that the ancient Ethiopic and Sanskrit writing are one and the same.
William Jones, explained that the Ethiopian origin of Sanskrit was supported by the fact that both writing systems the writing went from left to right and the vowels
were annexed to the consonants. Today Eurocentric scholars teach that Indians taught writing to the Ethiopians, yet the name Nagari for Sanskrit betrays the Ethiopia origin of this form of writing. Moreover, it is interesting to note that Sanskrit vowels: a,aa,’,I,u,e,o, virama etc., are in the same order as Geez.
The Ethiopian script has influenced many other writing systems. Y.M. Kobishnor, in the Unesco History of Africa, maintains that Ethiopic was used as the model for Armenian writing, as was many of the Transcaucasian scripts. Dravidian literature indicate that the Naga may have introduced worship of Kali, the Serpent, Murugan and the Sun or Krishna. It is interesting to note that a god called Murugan is worshipped by many people in East Africa.
It is interesting that Krishna, who was associated with the Sun, means Black, this is analogous to the meaning of Khons of the Kushites. Homer, described Hercules as follows: “Black he stood as night his bow uncased, his arrow string for flight”. This mention of arrows identifies the Kushites as warriors who
used the bow, a common weapon of the Kushites and the Naga.
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Kumarinadu
The Naga or Ethiopians were defeated by Dravidian speaking people from Kumarinadu. Kamarinadu is suppose to have formerly existed as a large Island in the India ocean which connected India with East Africa. This landmass is mentioned in the Silappadikaram, which said that Kamarinadu was made up of seven nadus or regions. The Dravidian scholars Adiyarkunallar and Nachinaar wrote about the ancient principalities of Tamilaham, which existed on Kamarinadu.
Kumarinadu was ruled by the Pandyans/Pandians at Madurai before it
sunk beneath the sea. The greatest king of Kumarinadu was Sengoon.
According to Dravidian scholars the Pandyans worshipped the goddess Kumari Amman. This Amman, probably corresponds to the ancient god Amon of the Kushites.
The Kalittokai 104, makes it clear that after the Pandyans were forced to migrate off their Island home into South India, “to compensate for the area lost to the great waves of the sea, King Pandia without tiresome moved to the other countries and won them. Removing the emblems of tiger (Cholas) and bow (Cheras) he, in their place inscribed his reputed emblem fish (Pandia’s) and valiantly made his enemies bow to him”.
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Classical Sanskrit is not dead.
It is formally taught at university level in a number of civilised countries and is a ceremonial language often used in religious ceremonies etc. (I used it this weekend at a wedding).
Also the Sanscrit based script is not called nagari……Modern Hindi is often written in Devanagari…..a very recent term derived from the odler Gupta script. Why its now called nagari I cannot explain (reference needed).
Could the author Dr. Winters (no affiliation or credible publications found) substantiate where in Ethiopia, Sanskrit is still practised and a genetic and archaological link between Ethiopians and Nagas and Hindus.
This defies logic and I feel nothing but pity for afrocentric scholars.
Nevertheless, the Indo-European heartland is not India, but Lithuania. This is probably where the early Aryan migrations to Hindustan started.
Additionally, Lithuanian has a large percentage of Sanskrit derived words (40% according to linguists, http://www.lituanus.org/1982_1/82_1_01.htm).
(Paul Thieme, 1958, 74,).
Sanskrit sunus son – Lith. sunus;
Sanskrit viras man – Lith. vyras;
Sanskrit avis sheep – Lith. avis;
Sanskrit dhumas smoke – Lith. dumas;
Sanskrit padas sole – Lith. padas.
For more info, contact, WILLIAM R. SCHMALSTIEG
The Pennsylvania State University
” The old sanskrit geographers applied the term CUSHA-DWIPA to very nearly the same regions which the ancient Greeks described Ethiopia. It included Arabia, Asia Minor, Syria from the mouths of the Nile, Armenia, the countries on the Euphrates and Tigris, a large part of the region North of the Persian Gulf,and finally an extended region in Africa….” P 65
“….In remote pre-historic times it was the richest, most populous, and most enlightened portion of the world. Cusha-Dwipa was in two parts; so according to Homer and the Greeks was Ethiopia divided into two parts, one being Asiatic and the other African…” P 65
“…. It is now admitted that a people of the cushite or Ethiopian Race, sometimes called Hamites, were the first civilizers and builders throughout Western Asia, and they are traced, by remains of their langage, their architecture, and the influence of their civilization, on both shores of the Mediterranean, in Eastern Africa and the Nile Valley, in Hindustan and in he islands of the Indian seas”… P 65 – 66
in “Pre-Historic Nations” ; John D Baldwin
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I would like to know what part of India Rani lives in that she hasn’t seen Tamils nearly as black as the hair on her head and that of every other Indian’s for that matter. Maybe she should take a visit to Shri Lanka or at least some area south of Bollywood.
Sanskrit is supposed to have originated from Prakrit and the Mlechhas. Like every other Indic or Indic Iranian dialect it probably originated less than 2,500 years ago out of the so called semitic and Ural Altaic languages. The earliest known presence of Indi Iranian dialect is with the Maitanni or ancestral Medes people of western Asia (the original Aryans of Herodotus whose name he said was adopted by Soma using Scythians) who probably are a legacy of the Afro-Arabian (Amurru) Hyksos populations who settled Canaan and other places. Any other theory is just an extrapolation.
It is quite possible then that the early Prakrit dialects were introduced to the Indian peninsula as Iran by the tall pastoral dark-skinned shepherds who originally lived in Arabia and Nubia where they were called Meluchhas. The name of the tribe of Amlukh, a batn or clan of the Rahawein Himyaris is mentioned as late as the 20th century in the Arabian side of the Persian Gulf by colonial explorers.
Sanskrit is said to hav been derived from Prakrit supposedly a Meluhha dialect. The earliest traces of the Indic Iranian dialect goes back to the 2nd millenium Maitanni kingdom or early Medes whom Herodotus said were the original “Aryans”, before the Soma using Scythians adopted their name.
The Medes or Maitani were probably remnants of the Hyksos tribes of Arabians who had colonized Syria or Canaan and other parts of the Near East whose original semitic dialects mixed with the preceding Ural Altaic .
It makes sense that these early Medes were descendants of the tall pastoral Arabians known historically as Meluhha (circa 2000BC) who are thought to have lived on the Persian Gulf as well as in Nubia. People called Amlukh or Amlekh are mentioned both in Islamic times as a batn or of the Rahawein tribe (Sabaeans), and by colonial explorers as late as the 19th century in Oman. These Meluhha thus were probably not so much Dravidian related as related to the tall so called “Hamitic” or “Afro-Asiatic ) type today stretching between East Africa and the Persian Gulf states. The early tall dark-brown Jat populations mentioned in early Arabic writings. The Jat names like Mahra and Qamar are also the names of Arabian tribes of east African affiliation.