The word Hindu did not appear in the scriptures, as distinctions among communities were not necessary. It only became necessary after the 11th century with the establishment of Islamic rule in India. As religions and communities mushroomed, the words Indu (Hindu) for the people and Industhan (Hindusthan) for their land came in vogue.
This is what I believe about absence of Hindu word in ancient scriptures . I'm feeling amazing by knowing that my view is exactly coinciding with Patel's view .
I really when European/western scholars make a public stunt saying hindu word is not an ancient word and so Hindu dharma is also not ancient and it's just 800 years old . For proving this they have created a new word 'Vedic Age ' and many fake theories . But the fact is that there was never a Vedic age at all . These so called Historians are intentionally making number of false theories like Aryan Invasion , Sanskrit is derived language from PIE etc . Theirs all these hard works are just to alter Hindu's million years of richest history and making it just 800 years old and to prove Hinduism came after Christianity . Nothing else other than this in their minds , even some are paid by christian missionaries , one of them Romila Thapar and many western history scholars .
What is there in just Name ? Name can not ever tell you the history . Every Hindu knows that there was never a name for our Dharma . It was being called as just Dharma . Because Hindu scriptures uses ONLY dharma word to denote religion of Hindus ( Bramhana-kshatriya-vaishya-shudra Varnas ) .
At ancient times before muslim invasion , there was no any need for Hindu word or any other word . At that time people were identifying themselves just by Varna . However when Mlecchas ( Caste-less ) invaded Aryans ( Hindus ) , then the words like Hindu , mleccha , Yavanas came into existence in Hindu communities . Hindus themselves starting calling themselves as Hindus to distinguish people of four Varnas from caste-less people who invaded land of Aryans .
I think the most authentic origin of Hindu is definitely from Agama and Puranas . Hindus used Hindu word to separate out Mlecchas from pious people of four Varnas .
• Brihaspati Agama says:
himAlayaM samArabhya yAvadindu sarovaram |
taM devanirmitaM desha hindusthAnaM prachakShate ||
"Starting from Himalaya up to Indu waters is this God-created country Hindustan."
Birhannaradi Purana in Hoshiarpur (Punjab)[1] which contained the verse:
Himalayam samarabhya yavat bindusarovaram
Hindusthanamiti qyatan hi antaraksha-rayogatah
"The country between Himalayas and Bindu Sarovar (Cape Commorin Sea) is Hindusthan derived by combining the first letter 'Hi' of Himalayas and the last compound letter 'ndu' of the word Bindu."
From VishNu Purana, 2.3.1:
Uttaram yat samudrasya, Himadreschaiva dakshinam |
Varsham tad Bharatam nama Bharati yatra santatih ||
"Bharat is the name of country situated to the north of the sea and south of the Himalayas and its progeny is known as Bharati."
One shoudn't get misunderstood here . This verse is talking about persons whose Homeland is BharataVarsha , not about foreigners . Besides before muslim invasion , there was not a single mleccha in Aryavarta ( India ) and this defination was written long before muslim's invasion . So Hindu is not only geographical definition . It has relation with Dharma also .
Besides VedaVyasa says in Bhavishya Purana " Mlecchas will invade land of aryas ( Hindus ) and loot them and will try to destroy dharma . After that BharataVarsha will become a country of mixed races like aryas ( Hindus ) and mlecchas. Mleccha's population will get increased throughout the world and Even in BharataVarsha . "
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