Sunday, June 1, 2008

Alexander = AlokaSunder?!


While blogging about Manthara, I remembered that my dad once said that according to some historians, Kaikeyi was a Chechnyan (formerly, Russian). Here is some interesting (and amusing) information about this, and similar subjects.

It would be really perplexing for every Indian to know that Lord Krishna, the son of Devaki, became Apollo in Greece. Radhakant is the other name of Lord Krishna, and since Radha is a woman and abala, he is also known as Abalakant, and this abala became Apollo in Greece. Similarly, Lord Shiva of Kailash became the Greek god, Zeus. The place in Greece where people from Magadh (today’s Bihar) were settled was called Magadhan. After passage of time, Magadhan became Makedan or Macedan and finally Macedonia, the birthplace of the great warrior, Alexander. Where-from had the name Alexander been derived? A man of incomparable beauty is called Alokasunder in Sanskrit and after passage of time, this Alokasunder became Alexander in Greece.

Many believe that the word Europe was derived from Sanskrit surupa and the name of the Caucasus mountain was derived from Kaikeyi, the mother of Prince Bharat, the younger brother of Lord Ram. Most scholars believe that the epics Illiad and Odyssey are nothing but imitations of Ramayana. The prime story of Ramayana is abduction of Sita and liberating her from captivity; even the epics of Homer narrate a similar story, where Sita has been replaced by Helen, the queen of Troy.

1 comment:

sai said...

excellent.ee work mana geographical boundaries ni cheripivestunnadi.i have seen in some journal a photograph of a gaint mouse picture and its silajalu on another picture.the story says they existed some millions of years back.then i thought it is a good point to argue with some people who often heckle our puranas saying how a gaint person like lord ganesh could take a ride on such a small mouse.excellent work from gopes the moyya.