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The book reveals the mysteries of civilizations concealed in proper
and personal names in ancient Indian texts. In a nutshell, using
numerous examples of similar names and events, the author
establishes that the geographical background and historical
contexts of the ancient Indian texts such as the Rig and Atharva
Vedas, Samhitas, Brahmanas, Puranas, and even the later two Epics
were in the Ancient Near East. The proper names that often indicate
the geographical regions are well connected with Asia, Greece,
Mesopotamia, Egypt, Syria, and particularly, with the territory
called Canaan. Canaan's location in between Mesopotamia and Egypt
makes it possible to speculate the Near Eastern geographical
background and historical context of the ancient Indian texts. Dr.
Liny Srinivasan traces these connections with the help of
historical linguistics tools such as systematic changes that may
have taken place during history of languages like Sanskrit, Greek
and hieroglyphic Egyptian. The toponymic names indicate some of the
geographical regions that cover a large area from ancient
Syria-Palestine to the coasts of Asia Minor, Egypt and even to
Ethiopia. That makes it possible to think of the time of the Hyksos
rule of an Empire extending from Egypt to Asia. The Rigveda authors
may have been in Egypt during the rules of the Hyksos foreign kings
of Egypt. The book will open up some different ways of explorations
in history, language, archaeology, and culture. The scholars
interested in culture and history of the entire region mentioned
above will find the book exciting as this change in concepts has
the potential not just to shed some light on the missing links in
ancient Indian texts, it could also fill the gaps in the ancient
Egyptian and Near Eastern history.
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