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in reply to a message by তন্ময় ভট
I found on the internet:
India is derived from Indus(hindu in Persian)
The name appeared in the writings of ancient Greek and Latin authors (Herodot, Strabo, Tacitus and others). The arabs borrowed their name for India (Hind) from the Greeks
source:
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:dJTWwfEBFCEJ:answers.yahoo.com/question/index%3Fqid%3D20060723023425AAERQ1y+neethu,+wikipedia&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=3
India is derived from Indus(hindu in Persian)
The name appeared in the writings of ancient Greek and Latin authors (Herodot, Strabo, Tacitus and others). The arabs borrowed their name for India (Hind) from the Greeks
source:
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:dJTWwfEBFCEJ:answers.yahoo.com/question/index%3Fqid%3D20060723023425AAERQ1y+neethu,+wikipedia&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=3
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But you are correct: Sanskrit sindhu probably literally meaning a moving body (of water) was transformed to Hindu in Persian and 'Indu- in Greek, and variously give us the names of the river Indus, the country India, the religion Hinduism, and the language Hindi.
References to India occur in Greek writings (and Alexander came all the way to its borders), an Indian system of medicine is called Yunani (from Ionian), and so forth, but these are not the oldest contacts with India: Indians were already trading with the Sumerians some millenium and a half before Alexander (though, of course, they were not called Indians then).
But you are correct: Sanskrit sindhu probably literally meaning a moving body (of water) was transformed to Hindu in Persian and 'Indu- in Greek, and variously give us the names of the river Indus, the country India, the religion Hinduism, and the language Hindi.
References to India occur in Greek writings (and Alexander came all the way to its borders), an Indian system of medicine is called Yunani (from Ionian), and so forth, but these are not the oldest contacts with India: Indians were already trading with the Sumerians some millenium and a half before Alexander (though, of course, they were not called Indians then).
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