Autobiography of India Indo Russia Connect Autobiography of India INDIA CONNECTS INDO - RUSSIA A Connect Over Millennia D.K.HARI D.K.HEMA HARI BHARATH GYAN SERIES Bridging Worlds Thru Knowledge Experience The Knowledge Of India Indo – Russia A Connect Over Millennia 2 / 165 Autobiography of India Indo Russia Connect Dedication This book is a part of our series, Autobiography of India, dedicated to our twin nephews, Aditya and Varun, who along with millions of other children world over, represent for us, the future of India and the world. It is our way of transmitting to them what we have learnt from our ancestors, about our ancestors and their way of sustaining themselves and the ecosystem around them for their sustained prosperity. Also, with their names, Aditya, the name for the divine Sun and Varun, the name of the divinity for Rain, they are for us, constant reminders of how blessed this land Bharatavarsha is, to receive bountiful rain and shine consistently. Rain and Shine are what our ancestors had leveraged ingeniously which made them last across generations, as a long-lasting, prosperous civilization and a role model for millennia. Aditya and Varun seem to be telling us all, Of what use is it to complain and whine? If you do not leverage your rain and shine! It is time we also start harnessing the Rain and Shine wisely and with responsibility, for the future of this civilization as well as mankind. We get a Rainbow, Indradhanush, only when there is Rain and Shine together! It is called Indra’s Dhanush, bow, as the spectrum of colours they produce, arc the sky like a bow. Indra has a connotation of the senses of an individual and the collective consciousness of a group of people. Indradhanush has always denoted in the Indian thought, a sense of achievement and joy, as well as seen a harbinger of hope and harmony. Harmony as denoted by the diverse 7 colours merging together to form the unified, colourless light, the sign of enlightenment. On 15th August 1947, when the new country of India was born, there was so much excitement as well as turmoil that, while the transfer of power happened at the stroke of midnight of 14th / 15th August, the official flag hoisting took place only on the evening of 15th August. This was jointly attended by Jawaharlal Nehru and Lord Mountbatten, the last British Governor General of India. Indo – Russia A Connect Over Millennia 3 / 165 Autobiography of India Indo Russia Connect At this moment, miraculously, a rainbow was seen arcing across the sky, as a sign of hope of a nation just born. Aditya and Varun are divinities representing the Sun and Rain, that shower this land with bounties and create rainbows of joy and harmony. Aditya and Varun, our nephews, are representative of the children of India and the world, the future generation, to whom we want to leave behind, this legacy of knowledge, from our forefathers and from our generation. Indo – Russia A Connect Over Millennia 4 / 165 Autobiography of India Indo Russia Connect Contents DEDICATION .......................................................................................................................................................... 3 CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................................................. 5 PREFACE ................................................................................................................................................................ 8 GEOGRAPHICALLY APART, BUT CONNECTED.......................................................................................................... 9 APART BUT STILL CONNECTED .......................................................................................................................................... 9 CONFLUENCE OF CIVILIZATIONS ........................................................................................................................................ 9 MELTING POT ............................................................................................................................................................. 10 TRADE CONNECT ......................................................................................................................................................... 12 OTHER EXCHANGES THROUGH TRADERS ........................................................................................................................... 15 TWO TRIBES THAT INFLUENCED INDIA ................................................................................................................. 16 WHO WERE THE HUNA? ............................................................................................................................................... 16 WHITE HUNS OF BYELORUSSIA ...................................................................................................................................... 16 SVETA HUNA............................................................................................................................................................... 17 HUNA TIMELINE .......................................................................................................................................................... 17 PANCHA GANAHA ........................................................................................................................................................ 17 5800 YEARS CONNECT ................................................................................................................................................. 24 THE MONGOLS ............................................................................................................................................................ 25 MONGOL TO MUGHAL.................................................................................................................................................. 26 RIVER AMU DARYA AND SYR DARYA-PIVOT OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS ............................................................. 28 NOURISHED BY THE 2 DARYA ......................................................................................................................................... 28 NATURAL GEOGRAPHICAL BOUNDARY ............................................................................................................................. 30 MENTIONED IN MAJOR SACRED TEXTS .............................................................................................................................. 30 WHY THIS IMPORTANCE? .............................................................................................................................................. 33 THE BLACK CONNECT ........................................................................................................................................... 34 SIBERIA – A NAME CONNECT ............................................................................................................................... 35 THE REGION ............................................................................................................................................................... 35 THE NAME SIBERIA ....................................................................................................................................................... 36 FROM ARCHAEOLOGY .......................................................................................................................................... 38 IDOL WORSHIP ............................................................................................................................................................. 38 THE DYNASTY LINK .............................................................................................................................................. 42 THE RA CONNECT ........................................................................................................................................................ 42 LINEAGE FROM SUN ..................................................................................................................................................... 42 RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL CONNECT .................................................................................................................. 45 Indo – Russia A Connect Over Millennia 5 / 165 Autobiography of India Indo Russia Connect BAKU......................................................................................................................................................................... 45 THE ROUTE ................................................................................................................................................................. 47 BUDDHISM IN RUSSIA .......................................................................................................................................... 52 BUDDHISM TRAVELS TO RUSSIA ...................................................................................................................................... 52 FIRST RUSSIAN TO VISIT INDIA ............................................................................................................................. 55 AFANASYA NIKITIN ....................................................................................................................................................... 55 INDIAN MYSTICISM, A RUSSIAN THINKER AND A THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY