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sinthu--hindu (by arabs/persians) -- india

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• From: Kanthavelu Nadarajah (@ edtntnt4-port-170.dial.telus.net) on: Thu Sep 19 12:33:47
  
  Very intersting
  
  
• From: Pontas (@ newgw4.me.iastate.edu) on: Fri Sep 20 14:24:02
  
  please tell me what sindhu means in Tamil. Thenwe can proceed. There is no word sindhu in Tamil dictionary.
  
  
• From: arudkO (@ l-lh121-16g.cavern.carleton.ca) on: Mon Sep 23 23:30:21
  
  
  "From Dr. Nagamanikam Ganesan
  From "Nagamanickam Ganesan"
  
  
  
  Thanks to some personal communications with Linguists, it is getting clearer.
  
  The island name, "iizham" in ancient Tamil seems to represent the date palm tree "cIntu/iintu/iiJcu",
  Kannada "iicalu", ...). Like "karumpeNNai" (= river KrishnavENi) in Andhra after palm tree, or Sind land/region in Pakistan which was named after "date palm" tree, Ceylon("Zeylon") is likely to be named after the date
  palm tree also ("iiccam"="iizham"). Palm and Date
  Palms were important symbols in ancient India. Cheras' totem symbol is palm trees; Balarama, the Hindu god of agriculture, has a (date) palm and the same as his flag. Balarama holds a goblet to drink palm toddy. (May be after a day's work :-) ). Date palm is "hintAla/hIntAla" in Sanskrit ( < tamil "cIntu"). "
  
  The above paragraph can be found at the following link:
  http://forumhub.com/tnhistory/16055.23866.19.49.02.html
  
  This illustrate that cInthu was a Tamil word for Dates and the fact Tamils held palmyrah/date trees hight in respect. Also it illustrates that they named places after these trees!
  so sinthu veLLY anc consequently india are names derived from Tamil. Recongnition of this fact and giving due respect to Tamils would ...:))
  
  
• From: Subhchari Dasgupta (@ ) on: Tue Aug 3 07:41:50
  
  THe name of India is a corruption of Hindu. Whereas Hindu is a corruption of Sindhu the name of the river in Punjab. Iranians and mesopotamians found it easy to call the river Sindhu as Hindu. The word Sthan as we call it means place.In those days therwere no religion called Hindu .People living in the region were reffered as Hindus. Pakisthan never refers it as India but as Hindusthan there by denying nationaliy to Indian Muslims.
  
  
• From: happyindian (@ bbcache-13.singnet.com.sg) on: Fri Aug 20 13:11:28 EDT 2004
  
  etymology of the word india:
  india derives its origin fm the word indus. the banks of river indus was home 2 the first indian civilization as recorded till date. india also comes fm the word hindu which is = hi + indu. hi is the root word / mool matra shabd for himalayas in sanskrit and indu either means river indus, river sindu or bindu sarover (indian ocean). the word hindu was used (by sumerians, later arabs, persians) 2 signify ppl who lived b/w the stretch of the himalayas and indus river / himalayas and sindu river / himalayas and indian ocean. india is the slanged form of indus + hindu. cInthu / sindu mayb from tamil but references hv bn found suggesting that sumerians definitely referred 2 the ppl of harappa civilization as hindu in terms of ethnicity or place identification (not religion). sumerian till date is believed to be the oldest language in the world predating tamil.
  
  
• From: happyindian (@ bbcache-9.singnet.com.sg) on: Sat Aug 21 22:48:30 EDT 2004
  
  better explanations r given by ap masilamani in this thread regarding sumerian, sumerian tamil and indo-european languages: http://www.forumhub.com/indhistory/16379.11.23.59.html
  
  
  
• From: Sandeep (@ inet02.unilever.com) on: Fri Sep 10 12:14:20 EDT 2004
  
  1) Bhaarat - Bharat became the king of Pratishthan after Dushyant. Bharat is considered a great king of this land. After him the country came to be known as Bhaarat.
  
  2) India - Alaxander named the land beyond the river Indus as India.
  
  3) Hindustan - Persian (Muslim) invadors/explorers named the land of the Hindus as Hindustan.
  
  
• From: chozhlan (@ cpe-144-131-198-231.qld.bigpond.net.au) on: Mon Sep 27 08:22:50 EDT 2004
  
  sindhu in tamil means "to spill"
  
  

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