Published On: Tue, Nov 3rd, 2015

Rudra: A Brief Journey through Early Śaiva Thought

[contextly_sidebar id=”bgsTWOzHyBVG1fiSJGPMk6nwzNh6gzBg”]There is a persistent motif of the deva Rudra (Śiva) being originally refused ritual offerings of the yajña to which the other deva-s were entitled. Rudra eventually acquires his share of the offering, often via a violent confrontation with the other deva-s.

One version of this legend, first seen in the Brāhmaṇa texts like the GopathaBrāhmaṇa of the Atharvaveda, has Rudra destroy the ritual of Prajāpati and injure several of the deva-s upon being excluded from the ritual offering (GopathaUttarabrāhmaṇa 2-4).

In parallel, in other Brāhmaṇa texts there are other narratives of the confrontation between the progenitor deva Prajāpati and Rudra. One of these involves the slaying of Prajāpati by Rudra for the former’s act of incest with his own daughter.

An allusion to this legend is found in the Ṛgveda itself where the deva-s are said to call upon Rudra to enforce natural law by preventing the incest of Prajāpati (RV 10.61.7).

Image of Orion and Taurus with Aldebaran

This is an astronomical legend that preserves memory of the ancient movement of the equinoctical colure towards Rohiṇī( the daughter of Prajāpati, i.e. the orange star Alderbaran). In the sky the slain Prajāpati is represented by the constellation of Mṛgaśiras (Orion), his semen by the Milky Way, Rudra by Ārdra (Sirius) the brightest star in the sky (in apparent terms). The Invaka-s, three bright stars in a straight line (the belt of Orion), are said to represent the arrow of Rudra that pierced Prajāpati [Footnote 1].

Changes over Time

By the time of the Mahabhārata, the old legends underwent diversification and recombination. One version is closer to the Vedic version in the Gopatha Brāhmaṇa, another one is closer to those found in the Purāṇa-s.

A version generally sharing elements with those found in the Mahabhārata also forms the foundation of the narrative regarding the origin of diseases from the wrath of Rudra in the Hindu medical Saṃhitā-s like those of Caraka.

In the Purāṇa-s, various versions of these legends emerge as products of a complex evolutionary process. This resulted in a “standard” version of the legend that is well-known to Hindus today. This combines four basic elements:

1) The suicide of Sati, the wife of Rudra in response to him being insulted by the Prajāpati at the ritual

2) The retaliatory destruction of the ritual of Prajāpati by Rudra’s agents like Vīrabhadra

3) An attack on the remaining deva-s and devī-s by Rudra’s agents resulting in serious injury to them

4) The slaying of PrajāpatiDakṣa himself Rudra or his agents.

The exclusion of Rudra, the destruction of the divine yajña by him, and his subsequent accommodation have been interpreted by some as evidence for Rudra being an outsider to the Vedic tradition and being acquired from a non-Aryan source. We hold that this idea is rather untenable.

The Vedic tradition keeping with the ancestral Indo-European religion had different domains for different gods, and Rudra was by definition a god associated with the dreadful aspects of existence that are placed to exterior to the cocoon of civilization. His exclusion merely reflects his belonging to that realm. His eventual inclusion is an explanation for how the Vedic ritual can make such dangers of the world exterior to civilization beneficent (śiva) to those inside it. Thus, Rudra is regent of disease and toxins, but at the same time he is also the regent of medicines.

That this nature of Rudra was an integral aspect of the Vedic tradition is supported by the fact that cognates might be found in other branches of the Indo-European:

1) In the Greek, Apollo is the cognate deity of Rudra. He is called both Loimios, i.e. the bringer of plague and Paion i.e. the healer. He is also invoked as Apotropaios meaning one who is called upon to avert the harm that he can inflict. This is reminiscent of the Vedic mantra: “rudrasyahetiḥparivovṛṇaktu | (May Rudra’s missile be averted)”.

Apollo is a fierce god who is the slayer of many demonic entities even as Rudra is the slayer of many Dānava-s and Daitya-s. Finally, in the Homeric hymn to Apollo he is explicitly mentioned as being feared by the other gods as he approaches Olympos (the Greek svarga) with his bow and shining weapons – a clear parallel to the Vedic situation with Rudra:

I will remember and not be forgetful of the archer Apollo,
who by the gods is dreaded within Zeus’ house as he enters.
Straightaway all of them leap to their feet as he nearer approaches,
Out of their seats, so soon as his shining weapons he levels.

(Homeric hymn to Apollo 1-4; translated by WC Lawton)

A limestone group statue of Odin behind the Museum of Lower Saxony in Hanover, Germany, created by sculpture Wilhelm Engelhard.

2) In Germanic tradition, Odin is the cognate of Rudra. In what survives of Northern Germanic legend there is an allusion to Odin being the god of the criminals or the outlaws. Likewise, in the long collection of mantra-s to Rudra known as the Śatarudrīya from the Yajurveda we see him being described as manifesting as various criminals. In the Germanic tradition preserved in Denmark, there is a specific allusion to a tale where the other gods kept Odin out of the realm of the gods for ten years so that they may not be tarnished by his “dangerous” connections.

 Rudra in the Katha School

Given this brief background, we shall consider in greater detail a less-known version of the encounter of Rudra with the deva-s and his eventual acceptance as the great god from the Kaṭha branch of the Yajurveda.

The Kaṭha School of the Yajurveda was once widely practiced in Kashmir and hills of the Panjab/Himachal Pradesh. It is today sadly all but extinct due to the depredations of the Mohammedans in those regions. The text in concern comes from the Āraṇyaka of the Kaṭha-s, which is rather distinct in parts from its cognate of the widely practiced Taittirīya school:

devāvairudraṃsvargaṃlokaṃgataṃnavyajānannādityavarṇaṃcarantan | te .abruvanko .asīti ? ahaṃrudro .ahamindro .ahamādityo .ahaṃsarvasyāvayāharasodivyasyeti | te .abruvannirbhajāmainamiti | tānruvannabhyavadata | tānprādhrajat | te .abruvanbhavānsarvamiti | yadruvannabhyavadat tad rudrasyarudratvam | yadbhavāniti tad bhavasyabhavatvam | yatsarvamiti tac charvasyaśarvatvam | saśivo .abhavat tac chivasyaśivatvam | tebhyo .amṛḍata tan mṛḍasyamṛḍatvam| taṃdevāabruvanbhavasyabhūtasyabhavyasyādhipatyamiti |sarvasyādhipatyaṃyajamānaṃgamayati || KA 2.100

Indeed the deva-s did not recognize Rudra who had entered the heavenly world wandering in with a solar lustre. They said: “Who are you?”. [He replied]: “I am Rudra, I am Indra, I am the Āditya, I am the arrival of all the divine lustre. They [i.e. other deva-s] said: We shall not offer a share to this one [i.e. Rudra]. Roaring he [Rudra] yelled at them. He rushed at them. They [the other deva-s] said: “Sir, you are all of this”. Because roaring, he yelled at them, that is Rudra’s fierceness (rudratvam). Because they called him sir (bhavān) that is Bhava’s lordship over existence. Because they said you are all this that revealed Śarva’s [prowess] as an archer. Because he then became favorable that is Śiva’s benevolence. Because he became kind to them [the other deva-s] that is Mṛḍa’s compassion. The deva-s said to him: “The overlordship of the present, the past and the future [is yours]. [If he knows this while performing the ritual, i.e. offering the portion for Rudra] it leads the ritualist to lordship over all.

 

In this Āraṇyaka section Rudra is given five names. In this it departs from the narratives in the Kauśītaki and ŚatapathaBrāhmaṇa-s, where Prajāpati, afraid of Rudra’s wrath confers eight and nine names respectively on him. Some of these names correspond to the five names given in the Kaṭha tradition.

The ninth name in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, Kumāra, is taken to be that of Rudra’s son. The five names are explained by some followers of the Kaṭha tradition as corresponding to the five faces of Rudra whose mantra-s are found in the terminal section of the TaittirīyaĀraṇyaka. Thus, we have:

Rudra : Tatpuruṣa (the eastern face associated with the aquiline deity Garuḍa)

Bhava: Sadyojāta (The western face associated the ghostly hosts of Rudra)

Śarva: Aghora (The southern face associated with the terrifying Bhairava-s)

Mṛḍa: Vāmadeva (The northern face associated with the goddess Umā or the Śakti of Rudra)

Śiva: Iśāna (The upward face associated with the Sadāśiva or the benign form of the god)

This narrative from the KaṭhaĀraṇyaka provides clues regarding the origin of frame-narrative of a key early śaivaupaniṣad, the Atharvaśiras.

Three śaivaupaniṣad-s can be considered early with their probable temporal order being:

1) Nīlarudra which is associated with the Paippalāda School of the Atharvaveda

2) Śvetāśvatara which is associated with the Taittirīya (or perhaps originally Caraka) school of the Kṛṣṇa-Yajurveda

3) Atharvaśiras which is associated with the Atharvaveda, though its śakha affiliation remains unknown.

It survives today as four parallel recensions which share a similar frame narrative. The first two of these upaniṣad-s contain mantra-s from their respective Vedic Saṃhitā-s that are used in the rituals for Rudra. Of them, the Śvetāśvatara, presents one of the earliest extant teachings of yoga.

Atharvaśiras also presents an important early teaching of meditative yoga. Together these form the root of the later śaiva yoga practices, which appear serially in traditions known as the atimārga starting with the Pāśupatasūtra-s and the mantra-mārga, which is expounded in the numerous śaivatantra-s of various streams.

The Atharvaśiras opens thus (while the three recensions are similar in this regard. I am using the one I follow in my practice):

devā ha vaisvargalokamāyaṃsterudramapṛcchankobhavāniti |

The deva-s indeed went to the heavenly world and they asked Rudra: “Sir, who are you?”

so .abravīdahamekaḥprathamamāsīdvartāmi ca bhaviṣyāmi ca nānyaḥkaścinmattovyatiriktaiti |

He [Rudra] replied: “I am the sole and primal one who ever was, is, and will be; there is nothing else other than mine.

The text thus parallels the KaṭhaĀraṇyaka but inverts the initial encounter between Rudra and the other deva-s with the other deva-s being the one going to the svarga to see Rudra and Rudra being the one who declares himself as encompassing the three stages of time.

The text then continues to identify Rudra with various entities such as the directions, the Veda-s, the ritual fires, cows, and the essences of various entities like the ritual offerings, dharma, natural truth and the like.

Then Rudra is said to vanish from the sight of the other deva-s and they are described as praising him and identifying him with each of the deva-s. Thereafter, Rudra is connected with the essence of the insight attained upon drinking Soma in the ritual. It uses the following mantra, which is the derived version of a ṛk recited by the ritualist upon drinking Soma:

apāmasomamamṛtāabhūmāganmajyotiravidāmadevān | kiṃnūnamasmānkṛṇavadarātiḥ | kim u dhūrtiramṛtamartyasya soma-sūryapurastātsūkṣmaḥpuruṣaḥ |

(Note the aorist (luṅ) 1st person plural forms of verbs are used, e.g. apāma for pā= drink, implying context of the recently completed ritual libation)

We have drunk Soma, we have become immortal, we have attained the light, we have seen the deva-s. What indeed can the evil-doers do to us? What is the mortal’s roguishness to the immortal – [such is the power stemming from] the subtle being who existed before the sun and moon (i.e. Rudra).

Statue of Dakshinamurti Shiva

Thereafter the Atharvaśiras narrates several functions of Rudra and the epithets corresponding to them and finally gives the teaching of meditative yoga and the teaching of the śaiva ritual action of smearing oneself with ash.

Central Saiva Teachings

The Vedic accounts, including the one in the KaṭhaĀraṇyaka, are used to illustrate a ritual point or special “insight” by knowing which the ritualist is able to attain success or power. We see that this ancestral framework is used in the Atharvaśiras to present the central śaiva teachings:

1) The primacy of Rudra

2) The universal nature of Rudra

3) Finally, the method of yoga.

In the KaṭhaĀraṇyaka, we already see elements relating to the first two of these points and these are used as is or expanded upon in the Upanishad. Where the Upanishad reconfigures matters is related to yoga.

Both the Āraṇyaka and the Upanishad presents the knowledge of the nature of Rudra as the means of achieving power via the ritual (the latter accepts the attainment of such power upon performing the soma rite via the grace of Rudra). However, it additionally presents yoga as the means to an insight that releases one from a certain bondage that is characterized as the being similar to the bondage of a domestic animal (the paśu-pāśa).

It is this freeing insight that came to be key concern of subsequent śaiva tradition.At the same time, it should be emphasized that even later śaiva tradition did not lose sight of the acquisition of power either.

Thus, via the KaṭhaĀraṇyaka we can trace how the old encounter of Rudra with the other deva-s evolved into the frame in which śaiva teaching was presented.


 

Footnotes

1: As the great patriot Lokamanya Tilak pointed out, the three Invaka stars also represent the belt/girdle or upavīta of Prajāpati. Indeed, even to this date when observers of Vedic tradition change their upavīta-s they use a mantra in which the girdle of Prajāpati at the head of the ecliptic path of Nakṣatra-s is invoked.

About the Author

- The author is a practitioner of sanAtana dharma. Student, explorer, interpreter of patterns in nature, minds and first person experience. A svacchanda.


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  1. Parantap says:

    Well, to be honest what authors is giving is poison pill of AIT/ Aryan Migration Theory, if a Hindu accepts it, it is funny how easily it is being accepted as narratives on Shiva/ Rudra looking at the comments of some people.

    Let me simplify the author’s obscure and opaque language for you Samir. Firstly, the author is saying that Rudra because of superficial similarity of western centric [Invading the Sacred-Rajiv Malhotra, Secret of Vedas- Sri Aurobindo ] English translations done in hasty manner. The very foundation of Shiava sect was imported concept, that we as Hindu civilization was at root chakra[Chakra hermeneutics -Invading the Sacred, RM] all about pleasure and reproduction(read Sex), security. Hindu then had enlightening experience as Rudra had such impact. It is because of Aryans brought to us through, Greek/ western civilization was at root of yoga technology. This was completely debunked by Sri Aurobindo in ‘The defence of Indian Culture’, also read ‘Secret of Vedas’ and Integral Psychology.

    This is part of mapping portion of Hindu knowledge systems to western framework or civilization, existent activity in people/ trained in the western academies, it more of fashion and people literally make bread-butter out of following this philology. This is extremely harmful phenomenon where outcome grave, Hindu again become colonized mentally. Read ‘Being Different’, and ‘Battle for Sanskrit’. Other than that ‘Rearming Hinduism’.

    This is all from just one para of authors article –

    ‘The exclusion of Rudra, the destruction of the divine yajña by him, and his subsequent accommodation have been interpreted by some as evidence for Rudra being an outsider to the Vedic tradition and being acquired from a non-Aryan source. We hold that this idea is rather untenable(emphasis mine).’

    Point of refutation at such time-constraint, and not much depth is Rudrasthakam, if indeed it was non-Aryan sources one must ask how (tons of evidence as the concept of Rudra is Hindu, and is unique. Look at the Pashupati seal of Harrappa Civilization) come we interpreted it at the Highest chakra [Chakra Hermenautics, Invading the Sacred] in following verse, while no other civilization come to this understanding and psychological functionality-
    Nama misha mishana-nirvana rupam
    vibhum vyapakam brahma-veda-svaroopam
    nijam nirgunam nirvikalpam niriham
    chidakasha makasha-vasam bhaje ham

    nirakara monkara-moolam turiyam
    gira gnana gotita misham girisham
    karalam maha-kala-kalam krpalam
    gunagara samsara param nato ham…

    Vibhu moksha personified, Veda incarnate, all-pervading Lord,
    Lord, master of all, I pay obeisance to you, and am ever-worshipful,
    Away from maya and the cycles of nature, of conscious desire,
    I chant to you Lord Digambara, who wears the sky as a garment.

    Who is formless, Aumkar’s origin, beyond the three gunas,
    Beyond speech, knowledge, senses, giver of grace,
    Perfect One who brings awe and reverence within, Lord of Time,
    Lord of Kailash, beyond this world, my obeisance to you.

  2. Slasher says:

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    In the Vedas written in 5000 BC, Marthanda is the physically deformed cast away son of Nebula, Aditi. Aditi is the mother of all mothers. It is actually a huge energized mass of rock which revolves round the sun every 12500 years and at perigee causes lot of disturbances on planet earth.

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    Aditi cast away her 8th son Marthanda as he was mis shapen—- Rig Veda Mandala10-Sukta-72(10-72).

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    General anesthetic interferes with electrical activity within brain microtubules, and this activity turns off consciousness. The converse is also true. The electrical activity of microtubules inside the dendrites and neurons in the brain is at the heart of consciousness.

    Below video: Check out what NASA has to say about a Shiva Lingam — the phallus which provides the seed of life..

    Let me give a Vedic explanation for FREE WILL or FREE CHOICE.

    Our brain is holographic. While introducing Nikola Tesla to longitudinal field ZPF waves , in 1903, the great Indian mystic has told him -“every part is a whole and everything springs from the whole”. This was 45 years before a hologram was invented.

    This Vedic science is 7000 years old– written in Sanskrit. This is why our brain can store unlimited data in such limited space. Von Neumann a Hungarian supergenius ( both Neumann and Tesla were more intelligent than Einstein ) had calculated that our brain can store 2.8 X 10 raised to 20 bits of information.

    Holograms are all about changing the angle at which two lasers strike a piece of photographic film- to record many differnt images on same surface. Any image thus recorded can be retrieved simply by illuminating the film with a laser beam possessing the same angle as the original two beams.

    Our FREE CHOICE is about finding the right angle to call up the image / memory of what we want or search.

    This is why a person seconds away from suicide can be given a tight slap accross his face , to force change this angle–and then he would not want to commit suicide at all. surprised?

    See a nice video below–.Richard Branson spoke on stage–yet he was never there!

    A human voice or sound is a longitudinal wave — just like scalar waves. Your body is full of water, every cell contains water. See the effect of sound, in the video below.

    A language like Sanskrit has evolved from the 12 strand DNA of seers 11000 years ago . Dimitri Mendeleyeev based his periodic table of elements from the sound of Sanskrit alphabets .

    See what happens to every cell of your body– with longitudinal waves caused by a Sanskrit Mantra.

    Charles Darwin’s entire family were Free Masons , starting off with his grandfather Dr. Erasmus Darwin. Charles married his cousin from Wedgewood Rothschild style. All his friends were Freemasons too.

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    The poor could be sent to the gallows or sold as slaves, just for cutting a tree for firewood, or getting branded as a petty thief , for stealing a loaf of bread for his starving children..

    It was about eliminating God from the equation, and making society accept a slave master system. For being successful he was buried in Westminster Abbey along with the kings.

    This is why public debate on Darwinism is prohibited. Darwinists do NOT want to discuss DNA.

    Pl punch into Google search CHARLES DARWIN AND HIS APPLE – VADAKAYIL to read further.

    7000 years ago, the Indian Vedas , and Ayurveda wrote down in Sanskrit the benefits of OM ( the Hindu king mantra ) .The humming of MMMMM boosted the levels of Nitric acid molecules in the blood to do DNA repair and prevent ageing. Modern science still has NO idea of what this resonant trigger and activation of the natural chemical factory in the brain is all about.

    As predicted in the Vedas-

    · yada yada hi dharmasya
    glanir bhavati bharata
    abhyutthanam dharmasya
    tadatmanam srjamy aham
    paritranaya sadhunam
    vinasaya ca duskrtam
    dharma-samsthapanarthaya
    sambhavami yuge yuge

    ·
    यदा यदा ही धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत, अभ्युथानम् अधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् |

    परित्राणाय साधुनाम विनाशाय च: दुष्कृताम, धर्मं संस्थापनार्थाय सम्भावामी युगे युगे ||”

    Translation from ‘Bhagavad Gita As It is”:
    Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion–at that time I descend Myself. In order to deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I advent Myself millennium after millennium.

    Charles Darwin knew zilch about DNA.

    Consider this amazing fact. The ancient Vedic Maharishis as far back as 8000 years ago, knew of the degeneration of the Y chromosome of the human DNA. In India marriage between same gotras ( lineage ) is banned. Honor killings take place in India with a rigid Khap village justice system.

    The Gotra system was designed to track down the root Y Chromosome of a person . The ancient Vedic Rishis had observed the degeneration of the Y Chromosome and they wanted to maintain as many individual healthy unique Y Chromosome lineages as possible. That would give a fair chance for males to continue to exist because Y Chromosomes get passed on over generations with almost negligible change in their genetic combinations, as they do not take part in mix and match with other Chromosome.

    Men have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome while women have two X chromosomes. DNA swapping happens between a pair of chromosomes, and since the Y chromosome doesn’t have a pair, it can’t swap DNA. So patterns stick around for a long time

    All life on Earth is powered by a process called chemiosmosis, where the chemical adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the rechargeable chemical ‘battery’ for life, is both broken down and re-formed during respiration to release energy used to drive the reactions of life, or metabolism.

    Earthly phosphorus is the key element in ATP, and other fundamental building blocks of life like DNA, is largely insoluble in water and has a low chemical reactivity.

    The complex enzymes SAGALA required for both the creation and break down of ATP came from black meteorite stones (Shiva Lingams ) which rained on earth from the sky. This seed containing stone is allegorically called Lord Shiva’s phallus.

    CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

    ..

  3. What a beautiful article! Sad to see it juxtaposed with the infantile objections of शरण् कुमार् though.

  4. Bihari says:

    It would be nice if sanksrit writings are presented in their original devanagri script.

  5. Math Genius says:

    Can someone explain to me in two sentences what this article is about.

    • Bhartiya Agnostic says:

      Its a homage to hurried western translations of Veda.
      It also unintentionally reveals how much these translations have contaminated certain traditions

  6. शरण् कुमार् says:

    Interesting article. One would be delighted to know the NEED for a comparative study of mythologies: “That this nature of Rudra was an integral aspect of the Vedic tradition is supported by the fact that cognates might be found in other branches of the Indo-European:”————– The author shows his/her weakness when it comes to analytical skills as it is puerile to compare Vedic tradition and Indo (Vedic)-European tradition. Isn’t Vedic tradition authentically Indian (Indo) enough? What is this hyphenated thing called Indo-European? Does the author mean that Greek, Norse and Indian mythologies are identical just because there are some coincidences? There is no need for comparison between similar, identical or same mythologies. Comparison is only between dissimilar points of view. What does the author imply? Which mythology is superior or inferior? It would be apposite to remember that there is only the presumed existence of an Indo-European language. There can be no language without a culture. There is nothing called Proto-Indo-European or Indo-European composite culture. The bitter truth is that Indian and European culture, despite the illusory mythological, linguistic and genetic parallels, are POLES APART.

    • Kartik says:

      Author is a believer of AIT and belief in PIE derives from that.

      • I dont think so. There is definite connections and similarities because I suppose some Vedics migrated westward and introduced agriculture to europe hence there is connections to Indra. Due to distance and passage of time, The original ideas degraded in europe.

      • शरण् कुमार् says:

        Yeah true. Here, the underlying assumption vide the Kurgen hypothesis is that everything Hindu, including Rudra is alien to this country. Therefore, Indo-Aryan is the impure/inferior branch of the PIE family. Will the author have the temerity to affirm that Odin became Rudra??? People must be devoid of common sense and scientific temper to believe in the AIT. When there are NO similarities, linguistic and cultural, between French and German (wrongly classified as belonging to the same pan-European linguistic family), how can it be said that there exists an Indo-European composite culture and a linguistic PIE super family of languages based on the sounds of a few randomly chosen consonants and words ???? The methodology of comparative linguistics is out-and-out unscientific.

      • Samir says:

        Does accepting Indo- European lingual and cultural affinities/ common heritage makes him a AIT proponent? Could you please substantiate your assertion ?

        • शरण् कुमार् says:

          Without a doubt. You see, Megasthenes came here to India as a traveler. He wrote extensively about India– not just the customs but about the topography, natural resources, etc. He failed to find any commonality between Greek and Sanskrit. Later, Al-Biruni came here as a traveler; he failed to notice similarities between Hamite, Shamite and Japhetic cultures (BTW, Jews are not considered Aryan enough. AIT is not just Anti-Hindu but is Anti-Semite too). Ibn Battuta, a great scholar from the Maghreb region too failed in this endeavor. I say “failed” because they wrote what they saw. They did not have an agenda. Yes, their writings were slanted at some points, but that is just cultural bias. The AIT is a very different beast. It was propounded and supported by Sanskrit-illiterate people who did NOT come and live in India. The Brits found the theory to be a potent tool to enslave the Indians and Christianize them. There is nothing more to it. AIT is unscientific to the core in that proofs are used to substantiate a baseless conclusion at all costs. Counter-theories are rubbished as conspiracies. In short, those who see similarities WHERE THERE ARE NONE are indeed politically minded unscientific dogmatic proponents of AIT, that should be rightly called the Aryan Invasion Complex.

          • Samir says:

            Thanks. But then there are cultural – lingual affinities among Pre-Christian Indian and Iranian society and others. Don’t you think so? Can’t the Manastaramagini author speak of them without being proponent of AIT?

          • शरण् कुमार् says:

            I get where you are going. I am not against comparison per se. I don’t understand what you mean by pre-Christian Indian but I get the point. Yes, there are very many similarities between Vedic and Iranian cultures. But comparisons in this case are not done with the sole motive of denying the heritage of someone. There are hardly any political considerations when I say that there are similarities between the Mayan and Vedic cultures. But the AIT is out-and-out political and dogmatic and its proponents are political animals who masquerade as intellectuals. And that is where it hurts the most. The AIT is geared towards a single-point agenda, viz. annihilation of Dharma through denial of ownership of Vedic heritage.

          • Parantap says:

            Well, to be honest what authors is claiming is that is poison pill of AIT/ Aryan Migration Theory if a Hindu accepts it, it is funny how easily it is being accepted as narratives on Shiva/ Rudra looking at the comments of some people.

            Let me simplify the author’s obscure and opaque language for you Samir. Firstly, the author is saying that Rudra because of superficial similarity of western centric [Invading the Sacred-Rajiv Malhotra, Secret of Vedas- Sri Aurobindo ] English translations done in hasty manner. The very foundation of Shiava sect was imported concept, that we as Hindu civilization was at root chakra[Chakra hermeneutics -Invading the Sacred, RM] all about pleasure and reproduction(read Sex), security. Hindu then had enlightening experience as Rudra had such impact. It is because of Aryans brought to us through, Greek/ western civilization was at root of yoga technology. This was completely debunked by Sri Aurobindo in ‘The defence of Indian Culture’, also read ‘Secret of Vedas’ and Integral Psychology.

            This is part of mapping portion of Hindu knowledge systems to western framework or civilization, existent activity in people/ trained in the western academies, it more of fashion and people literally make bread-butter out of following this philology. This is extremely harmful phenomenon where outcome grave, Hindu again become colonized mentally. Read ‘Being Different’, and ‘Battle for Sanskrit’. Other than that ‘Rearming Hinduism’.

            This is all from just one para of authors article –

            ‘The exclusion of Rudra, the destruction of the divine yajña by him, and his subsequent accommodation have been interpreted by some as evidence for Rudra being an outsider to the Vedic tradition and being acquired from a non-Aryan source. We hold that this idea is rather untenable(emphasis mine).’

            Point of refutation at such time-constraint, and not much depth is Rudrasthakam, if indeed it was non-Aryan sources one must ask how (tons of evidence as the concept of Rudra is Hindu, and is unique. Look at the Pashupati seal of Harrappa Civilization) come we interpreted it at the Highest chakra [Chakra Hermenautics, Invading the Sacred] in following verse, while no other civilization come to this understanding and psychological functionality-
            Nama misha mishana-nirvana rupam
            vibhum vyapakam brahma-veda-svaroopam
            nijam nirgunam nirvikalpam niriham
            chidakasha makasha-vasam bhaje ham

            nirakara monkara-moolam turiyam
            gira gnana gotita misham girisham
            karalam maha-kala-kalam krpalam
            gunagara samsara param nato ham…

            Vibhu moksha personified, Veda incarnate, all-pervading Lord,
            Lord, master of all, I pay obeisance to you, and am ever-worshipful,
            Away from maya and the cycles of nature, of conscious desire,
            I chant to you Lord Digambara, who wears the sky as a garment.

            Who is formless, Aumkar’s origin, beyond the three gunas,
            Beyond speech, knowledge, senses, giver of grace,
            Perfect One who brings awe and reverence within, Lord of Time,
            Lord of Kailash, beyond this world, my obeisance to you.

    • JustSaying says:

      It would be nice if people stopped calling it Mythology. It is a belief system and should be treated as such.

  7. Bhartiya Agnostic says:

    How do you explain Krishna Yajur Veda (Taittiriya Samhita ) “ā vo rājānam adhvarasya rudram̐ hotāram̐ satyayajam̐ rodasyoḥ” which runs counter to your assertion?

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