Archaic roots of traditional culture of the the Russian North. (Collection of scientific articles). Svetlana Vasilievna Zharnikova
It is no accident that during the Oka River, here and there, rivers with names comes across: Yamna, Yam, Ima, and Imyev. And moreover, according to Aryan texts, the second name of the Yamuna River was Kala. So, still the mouth of the Oka is called by the locals the mouth of the Kala. In addition, the Yamuna in the middle reaches was called Vaka, and the Oka River is also called in the Ryazan Region.
Other major rivers are mentioned in the Rigveda and Mahabharata. So not far from the source of the Yamuna (Oka) was located the source of the Sindhu River flowing east and south and flowing into the Red Sea (Red Sea) in Sanskrit – stream, sea). Recall that in the Irish and Russian annals the Black Sea was called the Cheremny, that is, the Red. So by the way, a section of its water area in the north is still called. On the shore of this sea, the Sind people lived and the city of Sind (modern Anapa) was located. It can be assumed that the Sindhu of the ancient Aryan texts is Don, whose sources are not far from the source of the Oka.
Moreover, in the postdeantic and Roman texts, Don is sometimes called Sind.
In the Volga-Oksk interfluve there are many rivers over whose names millennia have not been dominated.
To prove this, no special effort is required: it is enough to compare the names of the Pochye Rivers with the names of the «sacred krinits» of Mahabharata, more precisely, that part of it, which is known as the «Walking through the Krinitsa». It is in it that a description of more than 200 sacred reservoirs of the ancient Aryan land of Bharat in the basins of the Ganges and the Yamuna (as of 3150 BC) is given:
Krinitsa – River in the Oka River Basin
Agastya – Agashka
Aksha – Aksha
Apaga – Apaka
Archika – Archikov
Asita – Asata
Ahalya – Akhalenka
Wadawa – Wad
Vamana – Vamna
Vansha – Vansha
Varaha – Varah
Varadana – Varaduna
Kaveri – Kaverka
Kedara – Kidra
Kubja – Kubja
Kumara – Kumarevka
Kushika – Kushka
Manusha – Manushinskoy
Pari-plava – Plava and Plavitsa
Plaksha – Plaksa
Rama (Lake) – Rama (Lake)
Sita – Siti
Soma – Somi
Sutirtha – Suterki
Tushni – Tushina
Urvasi – Urvanovsky
Ushanas – Ushanets
Shankhini – Shankini
Shona – Shana
Shiva – Shivskaya
Yakshini – Yakshina
It is also surprising that we are dealing not only with the almost literal coincidence of the names of the sacred krinits of the Mahabharata and the rivers of Central Russia, but even with the correspondence of their relative position. So, in Sanskrit and in Russian, words with the initial «F» are extremely rare: from the list of Mahabharata Rivers, only one has an «F» at the beginning of the name – Falguna, which flows into Sarasvati. But according to ancient Aryan texts, Saraswati is the only big river, flowing north of the Yamuna and south of the Ganges and flowing into the Yamuna at its mouth. Only the river Klyazma located to the north of the Oka and south of the Volga corresponds to it. And what? Among hundreds of its tributaries, only one bears a name beginning with
«F» – Falyugin! Despite 5 thousand years, this unusual name practically has not changed.
Another example. According to the Mahabharata, south of the sanctified Kamyaka forest, the river Praveni flowed into the Yamuna (that is, the Pra River), with Lake Godavari (where «vara» is a Sanskrit circle). What about today? As before, south of the Vladimir forests, the Pra River flows into the Oka River and Lake Gode lies.
Or another example. Mahabharata tells how the sage Kaushika during the drought flooded the river Paru, renamed for it in his honor. But further the epic reports that the ungrateful locals still call the river Para and it flows from the south to the Yamuna (Oka). And what? The river Para still flows from the south to the Oka River and, like many thousands of years ago, the locals call it.
In the description of the krynitsa five thousand years ago, it is said, for example, about the Pandya River, flowing near the Varuna River, a tributary of Sindh (Don). But the Panda River today flows into the largest tributary of the Don – the Vorona River.
Describing the pilgrims path, the Mahabharata reports: «There is Jala and Upajala, the rivers flowing into the Yamuna.» Is there now anywhere nears the Jala River («jala – the river in Sanskrit) and Upa-jala?
There is. This is the Jala (Tarusa) river and the Upa River, flowing nearby into the Oka.
It was in Mahabharat that the first mentioned west of the upper Ganges (Volga), the Sadanapru River (Great Danapr) – Dnieper.
But if the names of the rivers have been preserved, if the language of the population has been preserved, then the peoples themselves must probably be 10 preserved? And, indeed, they are. Thus, the Mahabharata says that to the north of the country of Pandya, lying on the banks of Varuna is the country of Martiev.
But it is to the north of Panda and Crow on the banks of Moksha and Sura that the land of Mordva (Mortva of the Middle Ages) lays Finnish-Ugric speaking people with a huge number of Russian, Iranian and Sanskrit words.
The country between the rivers Yamuna, Sindh, Upadzhala and Para was called A-Vanti. Exactly so – Vantit (A-Vantit) called the land of Vyatich between the Oka, Don, Upoya and Para rivers Arab travelers and Byzantine chronicles.
Mahabharata and Rigveda mention the people of Kuru and Kuruksetra.
Kurukshetra – literally, «Kursk Field», and it is in the center of it that the city of Kursk stands, where the «Word of Igor’s Campaign» places the Kursk – noble warriors.
An ally of the Kauravas in the Great War with the Pandavas was the Sauvir people living in the country of Sindhu. But just like that – with Sauvirs up until the 15th century, they called Russians – Saveryans. This people is mentioned – the Sauvirs and Ptolemy in the 2nd century.
The Rigveda reports the warlike people of Krivi. But Latvians and Lithuanians call all Russians that way – «Krivi», by the name of the neighboring Krivichi ethnic group, whose cities were Smolensk, Polotsk, Pskov, and today’s Tartu and Riga.
Speaking about the history of Eastern Europe, archaeologists and historians in general, the period from 10 to 3 thousand BC not particularly detailed. This is Mesolithic-Neolithic, with their archaeological cultures.
But the archaeological culture in a certain sense is abstract, but real people lived here, who were born and died, loved and suffered, fought and were related, and somehow they evaluated themselves, their lives, they called themselves by some specific names. That past, far from us, was present for them. And it is the ancient Aryan sources that make it possible to shed light on some of the dark pages of these seven millennia (from 10 to 3 thousand BC).
One of the tales of Mahabharata tells: «We heard that when Samvarana, the son of Raksha, ruled the land, great disasters came for the subjects. And then, from all kinds of calamities, the kingdom was destroyed, struck by hunger and death, drought and disease. And the enemy troops defeated the descendants of Bharat. And, causing the earth to shake on their own, consisting of four types of troops, the king