A peek into History

It all started when one of my friends casually told me that this whole Aryan Invasion was a big sham. And I thought Aryans should be credited for the origin of the word Xenophobia. Duh ! On a more serious note I was taken aback, afterall this is what we have been all taught consistently in schools and the very little of history I remember. I was a bit amazed by hearing his statement and so thought to venture into history on my own. Fortunately landed my hand on Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen's Argumentative Indian which opens a new dimension to the whole history of India . For instance in his book Prof. Sen mentioned that Buddhism was prevalent in India for nearly 1000 years ! Though very hard to digest this truth , I have been forced to believe that this might have been really possible.

Let us take the Indian mythology. There are 10 incarnations of Lord Vishnu which includes the following Malsya , Kurma , Varaha , Narsimha, Vamana, Parshurama, Srirama, Balarama, Srikrishna and finally Kalki. Now there is a another version which claims that instead of Balarama it was Gautam Buddha who would be the incarnation of Lord Vishnu and to a great extent I believe it is true. As per the hindu mythology it is a well known fact that Laxmana who was Lord Rama's younger brother in Ramayana was in fact a incarnation of the Seshnag ( The Snake on which Lord Vishnu rests. ) . Now Seshnag reportedly requested Lord Vishnu that he be the elder brother in the next incarnation which was gracefully accepted by the lord. Hence the theory that even Balarama is an incarnation of Lord Vishnu may not be afterall true. But then are always different schools of thoughts which at times may be outlandish. All this leads one to believe that Gautam Buddha was indeed an incarnation of Lord Vishnu but then I am still confounded as to why Hindus don't regard Buddha as one of their deities . Well it may be little difficult for anyone to prove that Buddhism was a dominant in our country for 1000 years but certainly it did influence great kings like Ashoka and even today maintains a unique tang.

It seems the mythology debate runs through even our history for as recent as 200 years. While researching stuff on our history I found that our recent history seems to have been forged and has various different schools of thoughts. Due to this we may afterall never know the true heroes and the villains in particular who screwed our country and everyone will have a different school of thought, many of them brainwashed with the help of our corrupt historians, educational system and the media.