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--- Den fre 2009-03-20 skrev Piya Tan <dharmafarer@...>:


"Dear Thomas,

Firstly, "Hindu" is an anachronistic term here. The term actually was
not even Indian (it was Iranian, also sued by the ancient Chinese)."

As shown by the initial "h", which in Persian often corresponds to Indo-Aryan "s" - hind/sindh, ahura/asura etc. (For the Zoroastrians, the relation between ahura/asura and daeva/deva are inverted in relation to the traditional Indian one - the daevas are demons, and the supreme god is Ahura Mazdah.)

In Greek, this initial s or h was sometimes dropped altogether, so the Indian stem "sindh" and Persian "hind" became Greek "ind", and that's the origin of the name "India".

Ironically, the province of Sindh is not even part of India any more, but of Pakistan...

Gunnar



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