Ancient Persian (Zoroastrian) influence on Hinduism

Cybernooon ^ | 10/17/07 | Cybernoon

[freedom44]

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[CarrotAndStick]

[CarrotAndStick]

The first systematic theory of the relationships between human languages began when Sir William Jones, "Oriental Jones," proposed in 1786 that Greek and Latin, the classical languages of Europe, and Sanskrit, the classical language of India, had all descended from a common source. The evidence for this came from both the structure of the languages -- Sanskrit grammar has similarities to Greek and to nothing else -- and the vocabulary of the languages. Thus, "father" in English compares to "Vater" in German, "pater" in Latin, "patêr" in Greek, "pitr." in Sanskrit, "pedar" in Persian, etc. On the other hand, "father" in Arabic is "ab," which hardly seems like any of the others. This became the theory of "Indo-European" languages, and today the hypothetical language that would be the common source for all Indo-European languages is called "Proto-Indo-European." The following table shows a genealogy for two "knowing" roots, which in modern English turn up as "know" and "wit."

[familyop]

Hinduism is not the only religion that came from ancient Persian religion. There was a split. One religion went south, and the other religion went southwest.

[gcruse]

What Would Hindu?

[tbw2]

Am I wrong, but does this article almost read as “Everything that’s Hindu - from their castes to their gods to their ethnic name - came from Persia”?

[txzman]

Yes - and if you read the History of Persia, you would be surprised how much more of our civilization has roots in Persian civilization.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

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[ken21]

very interesting.

thank you.

[spyone]

The Zoroastrian influence also extends to Shiite Muslims in Iran. The belief in the hidden Iman, the messiah, is obviously a Zoroastrian influence.

[SunkenCiv]

You’re most welcome.

[parisa]

some of the words that I can think of off the top of my head with similarities to English words:

Madar = mother

daukhtar = daughter/girl

pedar = father

baradar = brother

man = me

tou = you (or rather “tu” the familiar you in french which I think it’s still related to the same root word)

setareh = star

mah = moon

lab = lip

abroo = eyebrow

chooneh = chin

and of course basicly the number count.

There’s much much more to have fun with, but my brain function has slowed down this late at night!

[CarrotAndStick]

That list you made, the words are almost identical to those used in Hindi/Sanskrit and most other Indian languages.

[beachdweller]

Indeed. And they had beliefs in things like resurrection, a messiah-like figure, the judgment, a hierarchy of angels and demons, etc. well before there is evidence of these beliefs among the Hebrews. This troubled me as a Christian, until a Catholic teacher of mine pointed out that, while the Jews are God’s chosen people, that does not mean that aspects of the truth did not come through other peoples. God’s truth is Truth and there are hints of it in nearly every culture.

[CarrotAndStick]

“Sanskrit, Latin, Avestan are all sister languages, and the present day upper Indian, Persian and European languages are related eg. Baradar in Persian = Brata in Sanskrit = Brother in English. “Persia” is actually a late European term for the land of “Farsi” language ie. Iran.

The Arabic phase in Iran only began 1300 years ago, and we had to escape to India to preserve our Zoroastrian religion.”

http://tenets.zoroastrianism.com/histar33.html

[parisa]

I’m sure, if I spoke Hindi or Sanskrit, there’d be a lot more words we could come up with basicallly sounding the same. These words I listed though are Persian.

[CarrotAndStick]

Pure Sanskrit would have lots of similarities, but with Hindi, things get slightly different. With vernacular Hindi, there will be plenty of Persian and Arabic words, but the older version will get closer to Sanskrit.

‘Duhiter’ in Sanskrit, is ‘daughter’ in English. ‘Duhiter’ is less frequently used in common Hindi, as compared to the colloquial words, ‘baeti’ or ‘putrie,’ for the same meaning.

[Anita1]

My understanding is that after the Great Flood and Noah, the people scattered thoughout the world and they carried the truth of the beginning of man (Adam and Eve), hell, a god, a savior, demons, etc. because the original truth stayed with them through oral history. It was passed down from generation to generation! That is why so many religions have similar truths! Even the Chinese have religious stories about the Great Flood!