Please view paarsurrey’s post #548 on RF.
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paarsurrey wrote :vide Post #548 : < (Please click on the post # to get right into the discussion to join in , please)
And “Hinduism”, I understand, is a misnomer:
Aryan Homeland, Airyana Vaeja, in the Avesta. Aryan lands and Zoroastrianism.
15. Hapta Hendu**
** The seven Indus Rivers, Hapta Hindu (nation #15 above), are: 1. the Indus (Veda-Sindhu), the 2. Kabul and 3. Kurram rivers joining on the west and north banks of the Indus, and the 4. Jhelum (Veda-Vitasta), 5. Chenab (Veda-Asikni), 6. Ravi (Veda-Airovati), and 7. Sutlej/Beas (Veda-Vipasa) rivers joining the Indus’ east and south banks. (There is some discussion that the Saraswati River mentioned in Hindu Vedic texts was also an Indus tributary – though this is not clear.) The Hindu texts are mainly concerned with the eastern & southern tributaries while the Zoroastrian texts are concerned with the upper reaches of the Indus and all its tributaries whose valleys would have provided access to the plains – areas north and west of the Punjab (Panj-ab meaning five waters in Persian) – i.e. present-day North-West Frontier Province in Northern Pakistan, Northern Punjab and Kashmir in India and Pakistan.
Aryan Homeland, Airyana Vaeja, in the Avesta. Aryan lands and Zoroastrianism.
Right?
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Sixteen Nations of the Vendidad
The list of sixteen nations in the Vendidad is as follows:
Vendidad Name | Alternative Spelling | Old Persian/ Pahlavi | Greek / Western | Present Name | Features: – Good & – Bad |
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1. Airyanem Vaejo | Airyana Vaeja | Airan Vej (Phl.) | Iran | – Good & lawful – River snakes, climate change to severe winters. | |
2. Sukhdho (also Tuirya) | Sughdha Turan | Suguda (OP) | Sogdiana | Sugd, Northwest Tajikistan, Samarkand (SE Uzbekistan) | – Good land – fly Skaitya which kills cattle |
3. Mourum | Mouru | Margu (OP) | Margiana | Marv / Merv, South Turkmenistan | – Brave, holy – Plunder, bloodshed |
4. Bakhdhim | Bakhdhi | Bakhtrish (OP) | Bactria | Balkh, North Afghanistan | – Uplifted banner – Stinging ants |
5. Nisaim | Nisaya | Parthava (OP) | Parthia | N. Khorasan (NE Iran) & Nisa South Turkmenistan. Bordering Balkh and Marv | – Good land – Disbelief (could have refused to accept Zoroastrianism) |
6. Haroyum | Haroyu | Haraiva (OP) | Aria | Hari Rud (Herat), Northwest Afghanistan | – Plentiful water – Grief, poverty |
7. Vaekeretem | Khnenta Vaekerata / Vaekereta | Kalpul (Phl.) | Sattagydia | Kabul, Eastern Afghanistan | – Good land – Followers of Keresaspa, fairies and witchcraft |
8. Urvam | Urva | Uvarazmiya/Uvarazmish | Khvarizem/Chorasmia | Khorezm, Uzbekistan | – Rich pastures – Pride, tyranny |
9. Khnentem Vehrkano | Vehrkana | Varkana (OP) | Hyrcania | Gorgan, Golestan, North-northeast Iran | – Good land – Sodomy with children |
10. Harahvaitim | Harahvaiti | Harauvatish (OP) | Arachosia | Kandahar & Oruzan South Central Afghanistan | – Beautiful – Bury the dead |
11. Haetumantem | Haetumant | Zraka (OP) | Drangiana | Helmand – SE Afghanistan & Sistan – E. Iran | – Brilliant, glorious – Wizardry & Sorcery |
12. Rakham | Ragha | Raga (OP) | Ragai | Rai, Tehran & S. Alburz, North Iran | – Three peoples – Utter disbelief |
13. Chakhrem* | Kakhra | Uncertain: Either Ghazni, SE Afghanistan or just west of Rai, N. Iran | – Brave, righteous – Burn corpses | ||
14. Varenem | Varena | Patashkh-vargar or Dailam (Phl.) | Western Hyrcania | W. Mazandaran, Gilan & Northern Alburz (land of Mt. Damavand) North Iran | – Home of Thraetaona (Feridoon) who slew Azi Dahaka (Zahak) – Barbarian (foreign) rule |
15. Hapta Hendu** | Hapta Hindu | Hindava (OP) | Indus | Northern valley of the seven Indus rivers** (Upper Indus Basin) Gandhara (Waihind)***, Punjab and Kashmir in N. Pakistan & NW India | – Wide expanses – Violence, rage and hot weather |
16. Ranghaya | Rangha | later part of Arvastani Rum (Phl.) i.e. Eastern Roman empire | Lake Urmia, Upper Tigris, Kurdistan, Eastern & Central Turkey | – Good land – No chiefs i.e. no protector, open to raids, lawless, severe winters |
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