Thread by @punarUtthana108

Indian civilization influenced Greek Civilization !!!

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Indian civilization is distinctive for its antiquity and continuity

Due Constant contacts (that date back to prehistoric times) with western world India contributed to Greek & other civilizations

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Trade routes👇

Trade relations preceded by migration of peoples developed into cultural relations. This view is supported by both philological and archaeological evidence

Vedic literature and Jatakas, Jewish chronicles and Greek historians all suggest contact between India and West

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Greek like any other culture inherited something from preceding civilizations profited from progress of its neighboring cultures (like India and Persia)

presence of large body of Indian troops in Persian army in Greece in 480 B.C. shows Indian connections with Greece

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Discovery of modeled heads of Indians at Memphis of 5th century B.C. shows Indians were living there for trade

Hence there is no difficulty in regarding India as source of new ideal of asceticism in West

Eastern Religions and Western Thought - By Dr. S Radhakrishnan

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Gods of heaven (Varuna - Ouranos; Dyaus - Zeus ) and dawn (Ushas - Aurora) were common to the Greeks and Indians

Prominent characteristics of gods was their power of regulating order of nature and banishing evil

Greek concept of logos was very close to the vedic Vac

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Both Greeks and Romans tried to understand religions of India by trying to fit them as far as possible into Greco-Roman categories

Deities in were spoken of not in Indian but in Greek terms

Thus Shiva was identified as 'Dionysos' and Hare Krishna as ' Hercules'

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Zeus and Indra

Zeus ruler of Olympian gods
Indra king of heavenly Gods

Zeus control weather phenomenon related to sky
Indra control rain clouds and skies

Zeus thunderbolt as his weapon
Indra has Vajra

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Hades and Yamaraj

Hades god of death
Yamaraj is ruler of Naraka & god of Death

Hades and Yamaraj are said to bring judgment to departed souls

Hades is called as Pluto which is also the name of a planet

Planet Pluto is called Yama in Hindi

named a planet after similar Gods

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Greeks were always speaking of India as sacred territory of Dionysus and historians working under Alexander clearly mentions chronicles of Puranas as sources of of Dionysus."

Greeks have stolen from the Barbarians their philosophy

- Alain Danielou

@Vyolent @Vyasonmukh

Alexander mythos

He supposed to have invaded Punjab in 326 B.C. Every schoolboy is taught and is expected to know, that he invaded India

Strangely this event so significant to Western historians, seemed to have entirely escaped the attention of Sanskrit authors

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Nowhere did William Jones (1746-1794) who came to India as a judge of the Supreme Court at Calcutta and pioneered Sanskrit studies find any mention of Greeks or any sign of Greek influence

Greek influence never penetrated into Indic civilization

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British historians used to talk of Alexander as ``the world conqueror''

Facts recorded by Alexander's own Greek historians tell a very different tale

Marshal Zhukov said at Indian Military Academy Dehra Dun a few years back that India had defeated Alexander

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According to Greek tradition, Pythagoras, Thales, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Democritus and others undertook journey to the East to study philosophy and science

Pythagoras was particularly influenced by Indian philosophy

Professor R. G. Rawlinson remarks

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almost all the theories, religious, philosophical, and mathematical, taught by the Pythagorians were known in India in 6th century B.C.

Aristotle speaks of intellect in the same sense as do the Upanishads- intellect which grasps truth immediately

American mathematician, A. Seindenberg has demonstrated that the Sulbhasutras, the ancient Vedic mathematics, have inspired all the mathematic sciences of the antique world from Babylonia to Egypt and Greece

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Hindu astronomic systems were much more ancient than those of Greeks or even the Egyptians the movement of stars which was calculated by Hindus 4,500 years ago, does not differ even by a minute from the tables which we are using today

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"The Hindu systems of astronomy are much more ancient than those of the Egyptians - even the Jews derived from the Hindus their knowledge."  There is also no doubt that the Greeks heavily borrowed from the "Indus."

- Jean-Claude Bailly

@TIinExile @yaajushi @Shrimaan @ShefVaidya

And so on

Thus both upon archaeological and historical grounds, India is the mother of civilizations

Material skill and spiritual ideas spread from Indus valley to Nineveh and Babylon, to the entire Middle East, to the Nile Valley and thence to Greece and Rome

@Dharma_Yoddhaa