Subash Kak on Indian History

Dr. Subhash Kak is Delaune Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Louisiana State University. A pioneering cryptographer and neural network theorist, he has made fundamental contributions to speech scrambling, theory of random sequences, and quantum cryptographic codes; he has also researched the history of mathematics and astronomy.

As an additional activity he writes on history of India.

His announcement of an astronomy of the Vedic period in his book The Astronomical Code of the Rgveda (1994) challenged academic views related to the Aryan invasion and the nature of early Indian science. The coauthored In Search of the Cradle of Civilization (1995) participates in the debate and polemics on the origins of Indian culture.

http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.subhash.kak

http://www.ece.lsu.edu/kak/MahabharataII.pdf

When did Darius attack Indus valley Region?

516 BC is the year mentioned by some.

http://www.historycentral.com/dates/600bc.html

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Asia/India/_Texts/OXFHOI/1/3*.html

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~rauhn/ancindia.

Who is Seleucus Nicator?

Seleucus Nicator was a general of Alexander. Subsequent to Alexander he came into India. Chandragupta Maurya defeated him in battles and he gave his daughter to Chandragupta in Marriage.

Seleucus Nicator married the princess of Bactria and due to him Greek culture took roots in Bactria. They subsequently embraced Buddhism and propagated it in China

http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/wars_seleucus_india.html

http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/imperialism/notes/seleucus.html

What is Bactria?

Bactria in the days of Alexander was located in the northwestern portion of what is now Afghanistan and Tajikistan. It was bounded by the Hindu Kush mountain range, in the south, and by the Oxus River (Amu Darya), in the north.

Iactria, was a province of the Persian Empire and was  conquered by Alexander the Great.
After Alexander, his general Selucus ruled Bactria. It taken from the Greeks,  two centuries after Alexander the Great, by the Tokharians.

Bactria is thought to have been the home of Zoroaster.

Selucus had relations with Magadha rulers.

Bactrian Greeks embraced Buddhism and propagated it in China.

http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/chinaindiahistory.html

Somnath Temple - Destruction and Rebuilding

Somnath and Mahmud  - An Analysis of Romila Thapar
http://www.flonnet.com/fl1608/16081210.htm

St. Thomas - An Apostle in India

Interesting to know that St. Thomas, An Apostle came to India in 52 A.D.




About apostles

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01626c.htm

12 apostles


St. Andrew
St. Bartholomew
St. James the   Greater
St. James the   Lessor
St. John
St. Jude
Judas Iscariot
St. Matthias
St. Matthew
St. Peter
St. Philip
St. Simon
St. Thomas

Biography of St. Thomas
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14658b.htm

http://www.indianorthodoxchurch.in/st-thomas-apsotle-of-india?start=4

What is the Eight-fold Path of Buddhism?

Right Belief

Right Thought

Right Speech

Right Action

Right Means of Livelihood

Right Meditation

Right Effort

Right Remembrance or Memory