Saturday, September 18, 2010

Was the Kaaba Originally a Hindu Temple? By P.N. Oak (Historian)
Glancing through some research material recently, I was pleasantly surprised to come across a reference to a king Vikramaditya inscription found in the Kaaba in Mecca proving beyond doubt that the Arabian Peninsula formed a part of his Indian Empire.The text of the crucial Vikramaditya inscription, found inscribed on a gold dish hung inside the Kaaba shrine in Mecca, is found recorded on page 315 of a volume known as ‘Sayar-ul-Okul’ treasured in the Makhtab-e-Sultania library in Istanbul, Turkey. Rendered in free English the inscription says:
"Fortunate are those who were born (and lived) during king Vikram’s reign. He was a noble, generous dutiful ruler, devoted to the welfare of his subjects. But at that time we Arabs, oblivious of God, were lost in sensual pleasures. Plotting and torture were rampant. The darkness of ignorance had enveloped our country. Like the lamb struggling for her life in the cruel paws of a wolf we Arabs were caught up in ignorance. The entire country was enveloped in a darkness so intense as on a new moon night. But the present dawn and pleasant sunshine of education is the result of the favour of the noble king Vikramaditya whose benevolent supervision did not lose sight of us- foreigners as we were. He spread his sacred religion amongst us and sent scholars whose brilliance shone like that of the sun from his country to ours. These scholars and preceptors through whose benevolence we were once again made cognisant of the presence of God, introduced to His sacred existence and put on the road of Truth, had come to our country to preach their religion and impart education at king Vikramaditya’s behest."
For those who would like to read the Arabic wording I reproduce it hereunder in Roman script:
"Itrashaphai Santu Ibikramatul Phahalameen Karimun Yartapheeha Wayosassaru Bihillahaya Samaini Ela Motakabberen Sihillaha Yuhee Quid min howa Yapakhara phajjal asari nahone osirom bayjayhalem. Yundan blabin Kajan blnaya khtoryaha sadunya kanateph netephi bejehalin Atadari bilamasa- rateen phakef tasabuhu kaunnieja majekaralhada walador. As hmiman burukankad toluho watastaru hihila Yakajibaymana balay kulk amarena phaneya jaunabilamary Bikramatum". (Page 315 Sayar-ul-okul). [Note: The title ‘Saya-ul-okul’ signifies memorable words.]
A careful analysis of the above inscription enables us to draw the following conclusions:
That the ancient Indian empires may have extended up to the eastern boundaries of Arabia until Vikramaditya and that it was he who for the first time conquered Arabia. Because the inscription says that king Vikram who dispelled the darkness of ignorance from Arabia.
1. That, whatever their earlier faith, King Vikrama’s preachers had succeeded in spreading the Vedic (based on the Vedas, the Hindu sacred scriptures)) way of life in Arabia.
2. That the knowledge of Indian arts and sciences was imparted by Indians to the Arabs directly by founding schools, academies and cultural centres. The belief, therefore, that visiting Arabs conveyed that knowledge to their own lands through their own indefatigable efforts and scholarship is unfounded.
An ancillary conclusion could be that the so-called Kutub Minar (in Delhi, India) could well be king Vikramadiya’s tower commemorating his conquest of Arabia. This conclusion is strengthened by two pointers. Firstly, the inscription on the iron pillar near the so-called Kutub Minar refers to the marriage of the victorious king Vikramaditya to the princess of Balhika. This Balhika is none other than the Balkh region in West Asia. It could be that Arabia was wrestled by king Vikramaditya from the ruler of Balkh who concluded a treaty by giving his daughter in marriage to the victor. Secondly, the township adjoining the so called Kutub Minar is named Mehrauli after Mihira who was the renowned astronomer-mathematician of king Vikram’s court. Mehrauli is the corrupt form of Sanskrit ‘Mihira-Awali’ signifying a row of houses raised for Mihira and his helpers and assistants working on astronomical observations made from the tower.Having seen the far reaching and history shaking implications of the Arabic inscription concerning king Vikrama, we shall now piece together the story of its find. How it came to be recorded and hung in the Kaaba in Mecca. What are the other proofs reinforcing the belief that Arabs were once followers of the Indian Vedic way of life and that tranquillity and education were ushered into Arabia by king Vikramaditya’s scholars, educationists from an uneasy period of "ignorance and turmoil" mentioned in the inscription.
In Istanbul, Turkey, there is a famous library called Makhatab-e-Sultania, which is reputed to have the largest collection of ancient West Asian literature. In the Arabic section of that library is an anthology of ancient Arabic poetry. That anthology was compiled from an earlier work in A.D. 1742 under the orders of the Turkish ruler Sultan Salim.
The pages of that volume are of Hareer – a kind of silk used for writing on. Each page has a decorative gilded border. That anthology is known as Sayar-ul-Okul. It is divided into three parts. The first part contains biographic details and the poetic compositions of pre-Islamic Arabian poets. The second part embodies accounts and verses of poets of the period beginning just after prophet Mohammad’s times, up to the end of the Banee-Um-Mayya dynasty. The third part deals with later poets up to the end of Khalif Harun-al-Rashid’s times.
Abu Amir Asamai, an Arabian bard who was the poet Laureate of Harun-al-Rashid’s court, has compiled and edited the anthology.
The first modern edition of ‘Sayar-ul-Okul’ was printed and published in Berlin in 1864. A subsequent edition is the one published in Beirut in 1932.
The collection is regarded as the most important and authoritative anthology of ancient Arabic poetry. It throws considerable light on the social life, customs, manners and entertainment modes of ancient Arabia. The book also contains an elaborate description of the ancient shrine of Mecca, the town and the annual fair known as OKAJ which used to be held every year around the Kaaba temple in Mecca. This should convince readers that the annual haj of the Muslims to the Kaaba is of earlier pre-Islamic congregation.
But the OKAJ fair was far from a carnival. It provided a forum for the elite and the learned to discuss the social, religious, political, literary and other aspects of the Vedic culture then pervading Arabia. ‘Sayar-ul-Okul’ asserts that the conclusion reached at those discussions were widely respected throughout Arabia. Mecca, therefore, followed the Varanasi tradition (of India) of providing a venue for important discussions among the learned while the masses congregated there for spiritual bliss. The principal shrines at both Varanasi in India and at Mecca in Arvasthan (Arabia) were Siva temples. Even to this day ancient Mahadev (Siva) emblems can be seen. It is the Shankara (Siva) stone that Muslim pilgrims reverently touch and kiss in the Kaaba.
Arabic tradition has lost trace of the founding of the Kaaba temple. The discovery of the Vikramaditya inscription affords a clue. King Vikramaditya is known for his great devotion to Lord Mahadev (Siva). At Ujjain (India), the capital of Vikramaditya, exists the famous shrine of Mahankal, i.e., of Lord Shankara (Siva) associated with Vikramaditya. Since according to the Vikramaditya inscription he spread the Vedic religion, who else but he could have founded the Kaaba temple in Mecca?
A few miles away from Mecca is a big signboard which bars the entry of any non-Muslim into the area. This is a reminder of the days when the Kaaba was stormed and captured solely for the newly established faith of Islam. The object in barring entry of non-Muslims was obviously to prevent its recapture.
As the pilgrim proceeds towards Mecca he is asked to shave his head and beard and to don special sacred attire that consists of two seamless sheets of white cloth. One is to be worn round the waist and the other over the shoulders. Both these rites are remnants of the old Vedic practice of entering Hindu temples clean- and with holy seamless white sheets.
The main shrine in Mecca, which houses the Siva emblem, is known as the Kaaba. It is clothed in a black shroud. That custom also originates from the days when it was thought necessary to discourage its recapture by camouflaging it.
According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Kaaba has 360 images. Traditional accounts mention that one of the deities among the 360 destroyed when the place was stormed, was that of Saturn; another was of the Moon and yet another was one called Allah. That shows that in the Kaaba the Arabs worshipped the nine planets in pre-Islamic days. In India the practice of ‘Navagraha’ puja, that is worship of the nine planets, is still in vogue. Two of these nine are Saturn and Moon.
In India the crescent moon is always painted across the forehead of the Siva symbol. Since that symbol was associated with the Siva emblem in Kaaba it came to be grafted on the flag of Islam.
Another Hindu tradition associated with the Kaaba is that of the sacred stream Ganga (sacred waters of the Ganges river). According to the Hindu tradition Ganga is also inseparable from the Shiva emblem as the crescent moon. Wherever there is a Siva emblem, Ganga must co-exist. True to that association a sacred fount exists near the Kaaba. Its water is held sacred because it has been traditionally regarded as Ganga since pre-Islamic times (Zam-Zam water).

[Note: Even today, Muslim pilgrims who go to the Kaaba for Haj regard this Zam-Zam water with reverence and take some bottled water with them as sacred water.]
Muslim pilgrims visiting the Kaaba temple go around it seven times. In no other mosque does the circumambulation prevail. Hindus invariably circumambulate around their deities. This is yet another proof that the Kaaba shrine is a pre-Islamic Indian Shiva temple where the Hindu practice of circumambulation is still meticulously observed.
The practice of taking seven steps- known as Saptapadi in Sanskrit- is associated with Hindu marriage ceremony and fire worship. The culminating rite in a Hindu marriage enjoins upon the bride and groom to go round the sacred fire four times (but misunderstood by many as seven times). Since "Makha" means fire, the seven circumambulations also prove that Mecca was the seat of Indian fire-worship in the West Asia.
It might come as a stunning revelation to many that the word ‘ALLAH’ itself is Sanskrit. In Sanskrit language Allah, Akka and Amba are synonyms. They signify a goddess or mother. The term ‘ALLAH’ forms part of Sanskrit chants invoking goddess Durga, also known as Bhavani, Chandi and Mahishasurmardini. The Islamic word for God is., therefore, not an innovation but the ancient Sanskrit appellation retained and continued by Islam. Allah means mother or goddess and mother goddess.
One Koranic verse is an exact translation of a stanza in the Yajurveda. This was pointed out by the great research scholar Pandit Satavlekar of Pardi in one of his articles.
[Note: Another scholar points out that the following teaching from the Koran is exactly similar to the teaching of the Kena Upanishad (1.7).
The Koran:"Sight perceives Him not. But He perceives men's sights; for He is the knower of secrets , the Aware."
Kena Upanishad:"That which cannot be seen by the eye but through which the eye itself sees, know That to be Brahman (God) and not what people worship here (in the manifested world)."
A simplified meaning of both the above verses reads:
God is one and that He is beyond man's sensory experience.]
The identity of Unani and Ayurvedic systems shows that Unani is just the Arabic term for the Ayurvedic system of healing taught to them and administered in Arabia when Arabia formed part of the Indian empire.It will now be easy to comprehend the various Hindu customs still prevailing in West Asian countries even after the existence of Islam during the last 1300 years. Let us review some Hindu traditions which exist as the core of Islamic practice.
The Hindus have a pantheon of 33 gods. People in Asia Minor too worshipped 33 gods before the spread of Islam. The lunar calendar was introduced in West Asia during the Indian rule. The Muslim month ‘Safar’ signifying the ‘extra’ month (Adhik Maas) in the Hindu calendar. The Muslim month Rabi is the corrupt form of Ravi meaning the sun because Sanskrit ‘V’ changes into Prakrit ‘B’ (Prakrit being the popular version of Sanskrit language). The Muslim sanctity for Gyrahwi Sharif is nothing but the Hindu Ekadashi (Gyrah = elevan or Gyaarah). Both are identical in meaning.The Islamic practice of Bakari Eed derives from the Go-Medh and Ashva-Medh Yagnas or sacrifices of Vedic times. Eed in Sanskrit means worship. The Islamic word Eed for festive days, signifying days of worship, is therefore a pure Sanskrit word. The word MESH in the Hindu zodiac signifies a lamb. Since in ancient times the year used to begin with the entry of the sun in Aries, the occasion was celebrated with mutton feasting. That is the origin of the Bakari Eed festival.
[Note: The word Bakari is an Indian language word for a goat.]
Since Eed means worship and Griha means ‘house’, the Islamic word Idgah signifies a ‘House of worship’ which is the exact Sanskrit connotation of the term. Similarly the word ‘Namaz’ derives from two Sanskrit roots ‘Nama’ and ‘Yajna’ (NAMa yAJna) meaning bowing and worshipping.Vedic descriptions about the moon, the different stellar constellations and the creation of the universe have been incorporated from the Vedas in Koran part 1 chapter 2, stanza 113, 114, 115, and 158, 189, chapter 9, stanza 37 and chapter 10, stanzas 4 to 7.
Recital of the Namaz five times a day owes its origin to the Vedic injunction of Panchmahayagna (five daily worship- Panch-Maha-Yagna) which is part of the daily Vedic ritual prescribed for all individuals.Muslims are enjoined cleanliness of five parts of the body before commencing prayers. This derives from the Vedic injuction ‘Shareer Shydhyartham Panchanga Nyasah’.Four months of the year are regarded as very sacred in Islamic custom. The devout are enjoined to abstain from plunder and other evil deeds during that period. This originates in the Chaturmasa i.e., the four-month period of special vows and austerities in Hindu tradition. Shabibarat is the corrupt form of Shiva Vrat and Shiva Ratra. Since the Kaaba has been an important centre of Shiva (Siva) worship from times immemorial, the Shivaratri festival used to be celebrated there with great gusto. It is that festival which is signified by the Islamic word Shabibarat.Encyclopaedias tell us that there are inscriptions on the side of the Kaaba walls. What they are, no body has been allowed to study, according to the correspondence I had with an American scholar of Arabic. But according to hearsay at least some of those inscriptions are in Sanskrit, and some of them are stanzas from the Bhagavad Gita.
According to extant Islamic records, Indian merchants had settled in Arabia, particularly in Yemen, and their life and manners deeply influenced those who came in touch with them. At Ubla there was a large number of Indian settlements. This shows that Indians were in Arabia and Yemen in sufficient strength and commanding position to be able to influence the local people. This could not be possible unless they belonged to the ruling class.It is mentioned in the Abadis i.e., the authentic traditions of Prophet Mohammad compiled by Imam Bukhari that the Indian tribe of Jats had settled in Arabia before Prophet Mohammad’s times. Once when Hazrat Ayesha, wife of the Prophet, was taken ill, her nephew sent for a Jat physician for her treatment. This proves that Indians enjoyed a high and esteemed status in Arabia. Such a status could not be theirs unless they were the rulers. Bukhari also tells us that an Indian Raja (king) sent a jar of ginger pickles to the Prophet. This shows that the Indian Jat Raja ruled an adjacent area so as to be in a position to send such an insignificant present as ginger pickles. The Prophet is said to have so highly relished it as to have told his colleagues also to partake of it. These references show that even during Prophet Mohammad’s times Indians retained their influential role in Arabia, which was a dwindling legacy from Vikramaditya’s times.
The Islamic term ‘Eed-ul-Fitr’ derives from the ‘Eed of Piters’ that is worship of forefathers in Sanskrit tradition. In India, Hindus commemorate their ancestors during the Pitr-Paksha that is the fortnight reserved for their remembrance. The very same is the significance of ‘Eed-ul-Fitr’ (worship of forefathers).The Islamic practice of observing the moon rise before deciding on celebrating the occasion derives from the Hindu custom of breaking fast on Sankranti and Vinayaki Chaturthi only after sighting the moon.Barah Vafat, the Muslim festival for commemorating those dead in battle or by weapons, derives from a similar Sanskrit tradition because in Sanskrit ‘Phiphaut’ is ‘death’. Hindus observe Chayal Chaturdashi in memory of those who have died in battle.
The word Arabia is itself the abbreviation of a Sanskrit word. The original word is ‘Arabasthan’. Since Prakrit ‘B’ is Sanskrit ‘V’ the original Sanskrit name of the land is ‘Arvasthan’. ‘Arva’ in Sanskrit means a horse. Arvasthan signifies a land of horses., and as well all know, Arabia is famous for its horses.
This discovery changes the entire complexion of the history of ancient India. Firstly we may have to revise our concepts about the king who had the largest empire in history. It could be that the expanse of king Vikramaditya’s empire was greater than that of all others. Secondly, the idea that the Indian empire spread only to the east and not in the west beyond say, Afghanisthan may have to be abandoned. Thirdly the effeminate and pathetic belief that India, unlike any other country in the world could by some age spread her benign and beatific cultural influence, language, customs, manners and education over distant lands without militarily conquering them is baseless. India did conquer all those countries physically wherever traces of its culture and language are still extant and the region extended from Bali island in the south Pacific to the Baltic in Northern Europe and from Korea to Kaaba. The only difference was that while Indian rulers identified themselves with the local population and established welfare states, Moghuls and others who ruled conquered lands perpetuated untold atrocities over the vanquished.
‘Sayar-ul-Okul’ tells us that a pan-Arabic poetic symposium used to be held in Mecca at the annual Okaj fair in pre-Islamic times. All leading poets used to participate in it.
Poems considered best were awarded prizes. The best-engraved on gold plate were hung inside the temple. Others etched on camel or goatskin were hung outside. Thus for thousands of years the Kaaba was the treasure house of the best Arabian poetic thought inspired by the Indian Vedic tradition.
That tradition being of immemorial antiquity many poetic compositions were engraved and hung inside and outside on the walls of the Kaaba. But most of the poems got lost and destroyed during the storming of the Kaaba by Prophet Mohammad’s troops. The Prophet’s court poet, Hassan-bin-Sawik, who was among the invaders, captured some of the treasured poems and dumped the gold plate on which they were inscribed in his own home. Sawik’s grandson, hoping to earn a reward carried those gold plates to Khalif’s court where he met the well-known Arab scholar Abu Amir Asamai. The latter received from the bearer five gold plates and 16 leather sheets with the prize-winning poems engraved on them. The bearer was sent away happy bestowed with a good reward.On the five gold plates were inscribed verses by ancient Arab poets like Labi Baynay, Akhatab-bin-Turfa and Jarrham Bintoi. That discovery made Harun-al-Rashid order Abu Amir to compile a collection of all earlier compositions. One of the compositions in the collection is a tribute in verse paid by Jarrham Bintoi, a renowned Arab poet, to king Vikramaditya. Bintoi who lived 165 years before Prophet Mohammad had received the highest award for the best poetic compositions for three years in succession in the pan-Arabic symposiums held in Mecca every year. All those three poems of Bintoi adjudged best were hung inside the Kaaba temple, inscribed on gold plates. One of these constituted an unreserved tribute to King Vikramaditya for his paternal and filial rule over Arabia. That has already been quoted above.
Pre-Islamic Arabian poet Bintoi’s tribute to king Vikramaditya is a decisive evidence that it was king Vikramaditya who first conquered the Arabian Peninsula and made it a part of the Indian Empire. This explains why starting from India towards the west we have all Sanskrit names like Afghanisthan (now Afghanistan), Baluchisthan, Kurdisthan, Tajikiathan, Uzbekisthan, Iran, Sivisthan, Iraq, Arvasthan, Turkesthan (Turkmenisthan) etc.
Historians have blundered in not giving due weight to the evidence provided by Sanskrit names pervading over the entire west Asian region. Let us take a contemporary instance. Why did a part of India get named Nagaland even after the end of British rule over India? After all historical traces are wiped out of human memory, will a future age historian be wrong if he concludes from the name Nagaland that the British or some English speaking power must have ruled over India? Why is Portuguese spoken in Goa (part of India), and French in Pondichery (part of India), and both French and English in Canada? Is it not because those people ruled over the territories where their languages are spoken? Can we not then justly conclude that wherever traces of Sanskrit names and traditions exist Indians once held sway? It is unfortunate that this important piece of decisive evidence has been ignored all these centuries.
Another question which should have presented itself to historians for consideration is how could it be that Indian empires could extend in the east as far as Korea and Japan, while not being able to make headway beyond Afghanisthan? In fact land campaigns are much easier to conduct than by sea. It was the Indians who ruled the entire West Asian region from Karachi to Hedjaz and who gave Sanskrit names to those lands and the towns therein, introduce their pantheon of the fire-worship, imparted education and established law and order.
It may be that Arabia itself was not part of the Indian empire until king Vikrama , since Bintoi says that it was king Vikrama who for the first time brought about a radical change in the social, cultural and political life of Arabia. It may be that the whole of West Asia except Arabia was under Indian rule before Vikrama. The latter added Arabia too to the Indian Empire. Or as a remote possibility it could be that king Vikramaditya himself conducted a series of brilliant campaigns annexing to his empire the vast region between Afghanisthan and Hedjaz.
Incidentally this also explains why king Vikramaditya is so famous in history. Apart from the nobility and truthfulness of heart and his impartial filial affection for all his subjects, whether Indian or Arab, as testified by Bintoi, king Vikramaditya has been permanently enshrined in the pages of history because he was the world’s greatest ruler having the largest empire. It should be remembered that only a monarch with a vast empire gets famous in world history. Vikram Samvat (calendar still widely in use in India today) which he initiated over 2000 years ago may well mark his victory over Arabia, and the so called Kutub Minar (Kutub Tower in Delhi), a pillar commemorating that victory and the consequential marriage with the Vaihika (Balkh) princess as testified by the nearby iron pillar inscription.
A great many puzzles of ancient world history get automatically solved by a proper understanding of these great conquests of king Vikramaditya. As recorded by the Arab poet Bintoi, Indian scholars, preachers and social workers spread the fire-worship ceremony, preached the Vedic way of life, manned schools, set up Ayurvedic (healing) centres, trained the local people in irrigation and agriculture and established in those regions a democratic, orderly, peaceful, enlightened and religious way of life. That was of course, a Vedic Hindu way of life.
It is from such ancient times that Indian Kshtriya royal families, like the Pahalvis and Barmaks, have held sway over Iran and Iraq. It is those conquests, which made the Parsees Agnihotris i.e., fire-worshippers. It is therefore that we find the Kurds of Kurdisthan speaking a Sanskritised dialect, fire temples existing thousands of miles away from India, and scores of sites of ancient Indian cultural centres like Navbahar in West Asia and the numerous viharas in Soviet Russia spread throughout the world. Ever since so many viharas are often dug up in Soviet Russia, ancient Indian sculptures are also found in excavations in Central Asia. The same goes for West Asia.

[Note: Ancient Indian sculptures include metal statues of the Hindu deity Ganesh (the elephant headed god); the most recent find being in Kuwait].
Unfortunately these chapters of world history have been almost obliterated from public memory. They need to be carefully deciphered and rewritten. When these chapters are rewritten they might change the entire concept and orientation of ancient history.
In view of the overwhelming evidence led above, historians, scholars, students of history and lay men alike should take note that they had better revise their text books of ancient world history. The existence of Hindu customs, shrines, Sanskrit names of whole regions, countries and towns and the Vikramaditya inscriptions reproduced at the beginning are a thumping proof that Indian Kshatriyas once ruled over the vast region from Bali to Baltic and Korea to Kaaba in Mecca, Arabia at the very least.

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MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2008

Was Kabba a Hindu Temple(Makkeshwar)?


Kabba history has great significance and it is said that indeed Kabba Hindu Temple read full article for detailed story...... Glancing through some research material recently, I was pleasantly surprised to come across a reference to a king Vikramaditya inscription found in the Kaaba in Mecca proving beyond doubt that the Arabian Peninsula formed a part of his Indian Empire. By P.N. Oak (Historian) Below article was taken fromhttp://www.sanghparivar.org/

The text of the crucial Vikramaditya inscription, found inscribed on a golddish hung inside the Kaaba shrine in Mecca, is found recorded on page315 of a volume known as ‘Sayar-ul-Okul’ treasured in theMakhtab-e-Sultania library in Istanbul, Turkey. Rendered in freeEnglish the inscription says:
"Fortunate are those who were born (and lived) during king Vikram’s reign. He was a noble, generous dutiful ruler, devoted to the welfare of his subjects. But at that time we Arabs, oblivious of God, were lost in sensual pleasures. Plotting and torture were rampant. The darkness of ignorance had enveloped our country. Like the lamb struggling for her life in the cruel paws of a wolf we Arabs were caught up in ignorance.The entire country was enveloped in a darkness so intense as on a new moon night. But the present dawn and pleasant sunshine of education is the result of the favor of the noble king Vikramaditya whose benevolent supervision did not lose sight of us- foreigners as we were.He spread his sacred religion amongst us and sent scholars whose brilliance shone like that of the sun from his country to ours. These scholars and preceptors through whose benevolence we were once again made cognizant of the presence of God, introduced to His sacred existence and put on the road of Truth, had come to our country topreach their religion and impart education at king Vikramaditya’sbehest."
For those who would like to read the Arabic wording I reproduce it hereunder in Roman script:
"ItrashaphaiSantu Ibikramatul Phahalameen Karimun Yartapheeha WayosassaruBihillahaya Samaini Ela Motakabberen Sihillaha Yuhee Quid min howaYapakhara phajjal asari nahone osirom bayjayhalem. Yundan blabin Kajanblnaya khtoryaha sadunya kanateph netephi bejehalin Atadari bilamasa-rateen phakef tasabuhu kaunnieja majekaralhada walador. As hmimanburukankad toluho watastaru hihila Yakajibaymana balay kulk amarenaphaneya jaunabilamary Bikramatum".
(Page 315 Sayar-ul-okul).
[Note: The title ‘Saya-ul-okul’ signifies memorable words.]
A careful analysis of the above inscription enables us to draw the following conclusions:
1. Thatthe ancient Indian empires may have extended up to the easternboundaries of Arabia until Vikramaditya and that it was he who for thefirst time conquered Arabia. Because the inscription says that kingVikram who dispelled the darkness of ignorance from Arabia.
2. That,whatever their earlier faith, King Vikrama’s preachers had succeeded inspreading the Vedic (based on the Vedas, the Hindu sacred scriptures))way of life in Arabia.
3. Thatthe knowledge of Indian arts and sciences was imparted by Indians tothe Arabs directly by founding schools, academies and cultural centres.The belief, therefore, that visiting Arabs conveyed that knowledge totheir own lands through their own indefatigable efforts and scholarshipis unfounded.

Update Jan 18th 2010: interesting video with some proof

Proof


Anancillary conclusion could be that the so-called Kutub Minar (in Delhi,India) could well be king Vikramadiya’s tower commemorating hisconquest of Arabia. This conclusion is strengthened by two pointers.Firstly, the inscription on the iron pillar near the so-called KutubMinar refers to the marriage of the victorious king Vikramaditya to theprincess of Balhika. This Balhika is none other than the Balkh regionin West Asia. It could be that Arabia was wrestled by king Vikramadityafrom the ruler of Balkh who concluded a treaty by giving his daughterin marriage to the victor. Secondly, the township adjoining the socalled Kutub Minar is named Mehrauli after Mihira who was the renownedastronomer-mathematician of king Vikram’s court. Mehrauli is thecorrupt form of Sanskrit ‘Mihira-Awali’ signifying a row of housesraised for Mihira and his helpers and assistants working onastronomical observations made from the tower.
Havingseen the far reaching and history shaking implications of the Arabicinscription concerning king Vikrama, we shall now piece together thestory of its find. How it came to be recorded and hung in the Kaaba inMecca. What are the other proofs reinforcing the belief that Arabs wereonce followers of the Indian Vedic way of life and that tranquillityand education were ushered into Arabia by king Vikramaditya’s scholars,educationists from an uneasy period of "ignorance and turmoil"mentioned in the inscription.

InIstanbul, Turkey, there is a famous library called Makhatab-e-Sultania,which is reputed to have the largest collection of ancient West Asianliterature. In the Arabic section of that library is an anthology ofancient Arabic poetry. That anthology was compiled from an earlier workin A.D. 1742 under the orders of the Turkish ruler Sultan Salim.
Thepages of that volume are of Hareer – a kind of silk used for writingon. Each page has a decorative gilded border. That anthology is knownas Sayar-ul-Okul. It is divided into three parts. The first partcontains biographic details and the poetic compositions of pre-IslamicArabian poets. The second part embodies accounts and verses of poets ofthe period beginning just after prophet Mohammad’s times, up to the endof the Banee-Um-Mayya dynasty. The third part deals with later poets upto the end of Khalif Harun-al-Rashid’s times.
Abu Amir Asamai, an Arabian bard who was the poet Laureate of Harun-al-Rashid’s court, has compiled and edited the anthology.

Thefirst modern edition of ‘Sayar-ul-Okul’ was printed and published inBerlin in 1864. A subsequent edition is the one published in Beirut in1932.
Thecollection is regarded as the most important and authoritativeanthology of ancient Arabic poetry. It throws considerable light on thesocial life, customs, manners and entertainment modes of ancientArabia. The book also contains an elaborate description of the ancientshrine of Mecca, the town and the annual fair known as OKAJ which usedto be held every year around the Kaaba temple in Mecca. This shouldconvince readers that the annual haj of the Muslims to the Kaaba is ofearlier pre-Islamic congregation.
Butthe OKAJ fair was far from a carnival. It provided a forum for theelite and the learned to discuss the social, religious, political,literary and other aspects of the Vedic culture then pervading Arabia.‘Sayar-ul-Okul’ asserts that the conclusion reached at thosediscussions were widely respected throughout Arabia. Mecca, therefore,followed the Varanasi tradition (of India) of providing a venue forimportant discussions among the learned while the masses congregatedthere for spiritual bliss. The principal shrines at both Varanasi inIndia and at Mecca in Arvasthan (Arabia) were Siva temples. Even tothis day ancient Mahadev (Siva) emblems can be seen. It is the Shankara(Siva) stone that Muslim pilgrims reverently touch and kiss in theKaaba.

Arabictradition has lost trace of the founding of the Kaaba temple. Thediscovery of the Vikramaditya inscription affords a clue. KingVikramaditya is known for his great devotion to Lord Mahadev (Siva). AtUjjain (India), the capital of Vikramaditya, exists the famous shrineof Mahankal, i.e., of Lord Shankara (Siva) associated withVikramaditya. Since according to the Vikramaditya inscription he spreadthe Vedic religion, who else but he could have founded the Kaaba templein Mecca?

Afew miles away from Mecca is a big signboard which bars the entry ofany non-Muslim into the area. This is a reminder of the days when theKaaba was stormed and captured solely for the newly established faithof Islam. The object in barring entry of non-Muslims was obviously toprevent its recapture.

Asthe pilgrim proceeds towards Mecca he is asked to shave his head andbeard and to don special sacred attire that consists of two seamlesssheets of white cloth. One is to be worn round the waist and the otherover the shoulders. Both these rites are remnants of the old Vedicpractice of entering Hindu temples clean- and with holy seamless whitesheets.
Themain shrine in Mecca, which houses the Siva emblem, is known as theKaaba. It is clothed in a black shroud. That custom also originatesfrom the days when it was thought necessary to discourage its recaptureby camouflaging it.
Accordingto the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Kaaba has 360 images. Traditionalaccounts mention that one of the deities among the 360 destroyed whenthe place was stormed, was that of Saturn; another was of the Moon andyet another was one called Allah. That shows that in the Kaaba theArabs worshipped the nine planets in pre-Islamic days. In India thepractice of ‘Navagraha’ puja, that is worship of the nine planets, isstill in vogue. Two of these nine are Saturn and Moon.

InIndia the crescent moon is always painted across the forehead of theSiva symbol. Since that symbol was associated with the Siva emblem inKaaba it came to be grafted on the flag of Islam.
AnotherHindu tradition associated with the Kaaba is that of the sacred streamGanga (sacred waters of the Ganges river). According to the Hindutradition Ganga is also inseparable from the Shiva emblem as thecrescent moon. Wherever there is a Siva emblem, Ganga must co-exist.True to that association a sacred fount exists near the Kaaba. Itswater is held sacred because it has been traditionally regarded asGanga since pre-Islamic times (Zam-Zam water).
[Note:Even today, Muslim pilgrims who go to the Kaaba for Haj regard thisZam-Zam water with reverence and take some bottled water with them assacred water.]
Muslimpilgrims visiting the Kaaba temple go around it seven times. In noother mosque does the circumambulation prevail. Hindus invariablycircumambulate around their deities. This is yet another proof that theKaaba shrine is a pre-Islamic Indian Shiva temple where the Hindupractice of circumambulation is still meticulously observed.
Thepractice of taking seven steps- known as Saptapadi in Sanskrit- isassociated with Hindu marriage ceremony and fire worship. Theculminating rite in a Hindu marriage enjoins upon the bride and groomto go round the sacred fire four times (but misunderstood by many asseven times). Since "Makha" means fire, the seven circumambulationsalso prove that Mecca was the seat of Indian fire-worship in the WestAsia.

Itmight come as a stunning revelation to many that the word ‘ALLAH’itself is Sanskrit. In Sanskrit language Allah, Akka and Amba aresynonyms. They signify a goddess or mother. The term ‘ALLAH’ forms partof Sanskrit chants invoking goddess Durga, also known as Bhavani,Chandi and Mahishasurmardini. The Islamic word for God is., therefore,not an innovation but the ancient Sanskrit appellation retained andcontinued by Islam. Allah means mother or goddess and mother goddess.
OneKoranic verse is an exact translation of a stanza in the Yajurveda.This was pointed out by the great research scholar Pandit Satavlekar ofPardi in one of his articles.
[Note:Another scholar points out that the following teaching from the Koranis exactly similar to the teaching of the Kena Upanishad (1.7).
The Koran:
"Sight perceives Him not. But He perceives men's sights; for He is the knower of secrets, the Aware."
Kena Upanishad:
"Thatwhich cannot be seen by the eye but through which the eye itself sees,know That to be Brahman (God) and not what people worship here (in themanifested world)."
A simplified meaning of both the above verses reads:
God is one and that He is beyond man's sensory experience.]
Theidentity of Unani and Ayurvedic systems shows that Unani is just theArabic term for the Ayurvedic system of healing taught to them andadministered in Arabia when Arabia formed part of the Indian empire.
Itwill now be easy to comprehend the various Hindu customs stillprevailing in West Asian countries even after the existence of Islamduring the last 1300 years. Let us review some Hindu traditions whichexist as the core of Islamic practice.
TheHindus have a pantheon of 33 gods. People in Asia Minor too worshipped33 gods before the spread of Islam. The lunar calendar was introducedin West Asia during the Indian rule. The Muslim month ‘Safar’signifying the ‘extra’ month (Adhik Maas) in the Hindu calendar. TheMuslim month Rabi is the corrupt form of Ravi meaning the sun becauseSanskrit ‘V’ changes into Prakrit ‘B’ (Prakrit being the popularversion of Sanskrit language). The Muslim sanctity for Gyrahwi Sharifis nothing but the Hindu Ekadashi (Gyrah = elevan or Gyaarah). Both areidentical in meaning.
TheIslamic practice of Bakari Eed derives from the Go-Medh and Ashva-MedhYagnas or sacrifices of Vedic times. Eed in Sanskrit means worship. TheIslamic word Eed for festive days, signifying days of worship, istherefore a pure Sanskrit word. The word MESH in the Hindu zodiacsignifies a lamb. Since in ancient times the year used to begin withthe entry of the sun in Aries, the occasion was celebrated with muttonfeasting. That is the origin of the Bakari Eed festival.
[Note: The word Bakari is an Indian language word for a goat.]
SinceEed means worship and Griha means ‘house’, the Islamic word Idgahsignifies a ‘House of worship’ which is the exact Sanskrit connotationof the term. Similarly the word ‘Namaz’ derives from two Sanskrit roots‘Nama’ and ‘Yajna’ (NAMa yAJna) meaning bowing and worshipping.
Vedicdescriptions about the moon, the different stellar constellations andthe creation of the universe have been incorporated from the Vedas inKoran part 1 chapter 2, stanza 113, 114, 115, and 158, 189, chapter 9,stanza 37 and chapter 10, stanzas 4 to 7.
Recitalof the Namaz five times a day owes its origin to the Vedic injunctionof Panchmahayagna (five daily worship- Panch-Maha-Yagna) which is partof the daily Vedic ritual prescribed for all individuals.
Muslimsare enjoined cleanliness of five parts of the body before commencingprayers. This derives from the Vedic injuction ‘Shareer ShydhyarthamPanchanga Nyasah’.
Fourmonths of the year are regarded as very sacred in Islamic custom. Thedevout are enjoined to abstain from plunder and other evil deeds duringthat period. This originates in the Chaturmasa i.e., the four-monthperiod of special vows and austerities in Hindu tradition. Shabibaratis the corrupt form of Shiva Vrat and Shiva Ratra. Since the Kaaba hasbeen an important centre of Shiva (Siva) worship from times immemorial,the Shivaratri festival used to be celebrated there with great gusto.It is that festival which is signified by the Islamic word Shabibarat.
Encyclopaediastell us that there are inscriptions on the side of the Kaaba walls.What they are, no body has been allowed to study, according to thecorrespondence I had with an American scholar of Arabic. But accordingto hearsay at least some of those inscriptions are in Sanskrit, andsome of them are stanzas from the Bhagavad Gita.
Accordingto extant Islamic records, Indian merchants had settled in Arabia,particularly in Yemen, and their life and manners deeply influencedthose who came in touch with them. At Ubla there was a large number ofIndian settlements. This shows that Indians were in Arabia and Yemen insufficient strength and commanding position to be able to influence thelocal people. This could not be possible unless they belonged to theruling class.
Itis mentioned in the Abadis i.e., the authentic traditions of ProphetMohammad compiled by Imam Bukhari that the Indian tribe of Jats hadsettled in Arabia before Prophet Mohammad’s times. Once when HazratAyesha, wife of the Prophet, was taken ill, her nephew sent for a Jatphysician for her treatment. This proves that Indians enjoyed a highand esteemed status in Arabia. Such a status could not be theirs unlessthey were the rulers. Bukhari also tells us that an Indian Raja (king)sent a jar of ginger pickles to the Prophet. This shows that the IndianJat Raja ruled an adjacent area so as to be in a position to send suchan insignificant present as ginger pickles. The Prophet is said to haveso highly relished it as to have told his colleagues also to partake ofit. These references show that even during Prophet Mohammad’s timesIndians retained their influential role in Arabia, which was adwindling legacy from Vikramaditya’s times.
TheIslamic term ‘Eed-ul-Fitr’ derives from the ‘Eed of Piters’ that isworship of forefathers in Sanskrit tradition. In India, Hinduscommemorate their ancestors during the Pitr-Paksha that is thefortnight reserved for their remembrance. The very same is thesignificance of ‘Eed-ul-Fitr’ (worship of forefathers).
TheIslamic practice of observing the moon rise before deciding oncelebrating the occasion derives from the Hindu custom of breaking faston Sankranti and Vinayaki Chaturthi only after sighting the moon.
BarahVafat, the Muslim festival for commemorating those dead in battle or byweapons, derives from a similar Sanskrit tradition because in Sanskrit‘Phiphaut’ is ‘death’. Hindus observe Chayal Chaturdashi in memory ofthose who have died in battle.
Theword Arabia is itself the abbreviation of a Sanskrit word. The originalword is ‘Arabasthan’. Since Prakrit ‘B’ is Sanskrit ‘V’ the originalSanskrit name of the land is ‘Arvasthan’. ‘Arva’ in Sanskrit means ahorse. Arvasthan signifies a land of horses., and as well all know,Arabia is famous for its horses.
Thisdiscovery changes the entire complexion of the history of ancientIndia. Firstly we may have to revise our concepts about the king whohad the largest empire in history. It could be that the expanse of kingVikramaditya’s empire was greater than that of all others. Secondly,the idea that the Indian empire spread only to the east and not in thewest beyond say, Afghanisthan may have to be abandoned. Thirdly theeffeminate and pathetic belief that India, unlike any other country inthe world could by some age spread her benign and beatific culturalinfluence, language, customs, manners and education over distant landswithout militarily conquering them is baseless. India did conquer allthose countries physically wherever traces of its culture and languageare still extant and the region extended from Bali island in the southPacific to the Baltic in Northern Europe and from Korea to Kaaba. Theonly difference was that while Indian rulers identified themselves withthe local population and established welfare states, Moghuls and otherswho ruled conquered lands perpetuated untold atrocities over thevanquished.
‘Sayar-ul-Okul’tells us that a pan-Arabic poetic symposium used to be held in Mecca atthe annual Okaj fair in pre-Islamic times. All leading poets used toparticipate in it.
Poemsconsidered best were awarded prizes. The best-engraved on gold platewere hung inside the temple. Others etched on camel or goatskin werehung outside. Thus for thousands of years the Kaaba was the treasurehouse of the best Arabian poetic thought inspired by the Indian Vedictradition.
Thattradition being of immemorial antiquity many poetic compositions wereengraved and hung inside and outside on the walls of the Kaaba. Butmost of the poems got lost and destroyed during the storming of theKaaba by Prophet Mohammad’s troops. The Prophet’s court poet,Hassan-bin-Sawik, who was among the invaders, captured some of thetreasured poems and dumped the gold plate on which they were inscribedin his own home. Sawik’s grandson, hoping to earn a reward carriedthose gold plates to Khalif’s court where he met the well-known Arabscholar Abu Amir Asamai. The latter received from the bearer five goldplates and 16 leather sheets with the prize-winning poems engraved onthem. The bearer was sent away happy bestowed with a good reward.
Onthe five gold plates were inscribed verses by ancient Arab poets likeLabi Baynay, Akhatab-bin-Turfa and Jarrham Bintoi. That discovery madeHarun-al-Rashid order Abu Amir to compile a collection of all earliercompositions. One of the compositions in the collection is a tribute inverse paid by Jarrham Bintoi, a renowned Arab poet, to kingVikramaditya. Bintoi who lived 165 years before Prophet Mohammad hadreceived the highest award for the best poetic compositions for threeyears in succession in the pan-Arabic symposiums held in Mecca everyyear. All those three poems of Bintoi adjudged best were hung insidethe Kaaba temple, inscribed on gold plates. One of these constituted anunreserved tribute to King Vikramaditya for his paternal and filialrule over Arabia. That has already been quoted above.
Pre-IslamicArabian poet Bintoi’s tribute to king Vikramaditya is a decisiveevidence that it was king Vikramaditya who first conquered the ArabianPeninsula and made it a part of the Indian Empire. This explains whystarting from India towards the west we have all Sanskrit names likeAfghanisthan (now Afghanistan), Baluchisthan, Kurdisthan, Tajikiathan,Uzbekisthan, Iran, Sivisthan, Iraq, Arvasthan, Turkesthan(Turkmenisthan) etc.
Historianshave blundered in not giving due weight to the evidence provided bySanskrit names pervading over the entire west Asian region. Let us takea contemporary instance. Why did a part of India get named Nagalandeven after the end of British rule over India? After all historicaltraces are wiped out of human memory, will a future age historian bewrong if he concludes from the name Nagaland that the British or someEnglish speaking power must have ruled over India? Why is Portuguesespoken in Goa (part of India), and French in Pondichery (part ofIndia), and both French and English in Canada? Is it not because thosepeople ruled over the territories where their languages are spoken? Canwe not then justly conclude that wherever traces of Sanskrit names andtraditions exist Indians once held sway? It is unfortunate that thisimportant piece of decisive evidence has been ignored all thesecenturies.
Anotherquestion which should have presented itself to historians forconsideration is how could it be that Indian empires could extend inthe east as far as Korea and Japan, while not being able to makeheadway beyond Afghanisthan? In fact land campaigns are much easier toconduct than by sea. It was the Indians who ruled the entire West Asianregion from Karachi to Hedjaz and who gave Sanskrit names to thoselands and the towns therein, introduce their pantheon of thefire-worship, imparted education and established law and order.
Itmay be that Arabia itself was not part of the Indian empire until kingVikrama , since Bintoi says that it was king Vikrama who for the firsttime brought about a radical change in the social, cultural andpolitical life of Arabia. It may be that the whole of West Asia exceptArabia was under Indian rule before Vikrama. The latter added Arabiatoo to the Indian Empire. Or as a remote possibility it could be thatking Vikramaditya himself conducted a series of brilliant campaignsannexing to his empire the vast region between Afghanisthan and Hedjaz.
Incidentallythis also explains why king Vikramaditya is so famous in history. Apartfrom the nobility and truthfulness of heart and his impartial filialaffection for all his subjects, whether Indian or Arab, as testified byBintoi, king Vikramaditya has been permanently enshrined in the pagesof history because he was the world’s greatest ruler having the largestempire. It should be remembered that only a monarch with a vast empiregets famous in world history. Vikram Samvat (calendar still widely inuse in India today) which he initiated over 2000 years ago may wellmark his victory over Arabia, and the so called Kutub Minar (KutubTower in Delhi), a pillar commemorating that victory and theconsequential marriage with the Vaihika (Balkh) princess as testifiedby the nearby iron pillar inscription.
Agreat many puzzles of ancient world history get automatically solved bya proper understanding of these great conquests of king Vikramaditya.As recorded by the Arab poet Bintoi, Indian scholars, preachers andsocial workers spread the fire-worship ceremony, preached the Vedic wayof life, manned schools, set up Ayurvedic (healing) centres, trainedthe local people in irrigation and agriculture and established in thoseregions a democratic, orderly, peaceful, enlightened and religious wayof life. That was of course, a Vedic Hindu way of life.
Itis from such ancient times that Indian Kshtriya royal families, likethe Pahalvis and Barmaks, have held sway over Iran and Iraq. It isthose conquests, which made the Parsees Agnihotris i.e.,fire-worshippers. It is therefore that we find the Kurds of Kurdisthanspeaking a Sanskritised dialect, fire temples existing thousands ofmiles away from India, and scores of sites of ancient Indian culturalcentres like Navbahar in West Asia and the numerous viharas in SovietRussia spread throughout the world. Ever since so many viharas areoften dug up in Soviet Russia, ancient Indian sculptures are also foundin excavations in Central Asia. The same goes for West Asia.
[Note:Ancient Indian sculptures include metal statues of the Hindu deityGanesh (the elephant headed god); the most recent find being in Kuwait].
Unfortunatelythese chapters of world history have been almost obliterated frompublic memory. They need to be carefully deciphered and rewritten. Whenthese chapters are rewritten they might change the entire concept andorientation of ancient history.
Inview of the overwhelming evidence led above, historians, scholars,students of history and lay men alike should take note that they hadbetter revise their text books of ancient world history. The existenceof Hindu customs, shrines, Sanskrit names of whole regions, countriesand towns and the Vikramaditya inscriptions reproduced at the beginningare a thumping proof that Indian Kshatriyas once ruled over the vastregion from Bali to Baltic and Korea to Kaaba in Mecca, Arabia at thevery least.
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The following explanation is reproduced from the Sword of Truth archives.
AllArabic copies of the Koran have the mysterious figure 786 imprinted onthem . No Arabic scholar has been able to determine the choice of thisparticular number as divine. It is an established fact that Muhammadwas illiterate therefore it is obvious that he would not be able todifferentiate numbers from letters. This "magical" number is none otherthan the Vedic holy letter "OM" written in Sanskrit (Refer to figure2). Anyone who knows Sanskrit can try reading the symbol for "OM"backwards in the Arabic way and magically the numbers 786 will appear!Muslims in their ignorance simply do not realise that this specialnumber is nothing more than the holiest of Vedic symbols misread.
Vedic Arabia

BY VRINDAVAN DAS


Vedic Past Of Pre-Islamic Arabia

By a Vedic Researcher

Many centuries before prophet Muhammad and the advent of Islam, Arabia or Arabistan was an extremely rich and glorious center of Vedic civilization. In this article, I will prove to you point by point that pre-Islamic Arabia was in fact a flourishing civilization which revered Vedic culture. In fact the Black Stone at the Kaaba is the Lingam of Lord Shiva. Millions of Muslims kiss this sacred emblem of Lord Shiva every day.

In learning about this most ancient heritage, let's begin with the word Arabistan itself. Arabistan is derived from the original Sanskrit term Arvasthan which means The Land of Horses. Since time immemorial proponents of the Vedic culture used to breed exceptional horses in this region. Thus eventually the land itself began to be called Arva (Horses) -Sthan (place). The people who lived in this land were called Semitic.Semitic comes from the Sanskrit word Smritic. Arabs followed the ancient Vedic Smritis such as Manu-Smriti as their revered religious guides and thus they were identified as Smritic which has been corrupted into Semitic.At that time the Uttarapath (Northern Highway) was the international highway to the North of India. It was via Uttarapath that Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries drew their spiritual, educational and material sustenance from India. Besides, this Sea-links were formed with India at least 800 years before the advent of Islam. Basra was the ancient gateway to India because it was at this port that the Arab lands recieved Indian goods and visitors. At that time the spoken language was Sanskrit, which later dwindled into the local variation that we now call Arabic. The proof of this is that thousands of words that were derived from Sanskrit still survive in Arabic today. Here is a sampling of some:
Sanskrit, Arabic, English: Sagwan, Saj, Teakwood/ Vish, Besh, Poison/Anusari, Ansari, Follower/ Shishya, Sheikh, Disciple/ Mrityu, Mout, Mortal/ Pra-Ga-ambar, Paigambar, One from heaven/ Maleen, Malaun, Dirty, soiled,MALevolent/ Aapati, Aafat, Unfortunate, Karpas, Kaifas, Cotton/ Karpur, Kafur, Camphor/ Pramukh, Barmak, Prominent Chief/Naranga, Aranja, Orange.

Even various kinds of swords were referred to as Handuwani, Hindi, Saif-Ul-Hind, Muhannid and Hinduani. The Sanskrit Astronomical treatise Brahma-Sphuta-Siddhanta in Arabic translation is known as Sind-Hind, while another treatise Khanda-Khadyaka was called Arkand. Mathematics itself was called Hindisa .

The Arabs derived technical guidance in every branch of study such as astronomy, mathematics and physics from India. A noted scholar of history, W.H. Siddiqui notes: "The Arab civilization grew up intensively as well as extensively on the riches of Indian trade and commerce. Nomadic Arab tribes became partially settled communities and some of them lived within walled towns practised agriculture and commerce, wrote on wood and stone, feared the gods and honored the kings."
Some people wrongly believe that Arabs used the word Hindu as a term of contemptuous abuse. Nothing could be further from the truth. The people of pre-Islamic Arabia held Hinduism in great esteem as evidenced from the fact that they would endearingly call their most attractive and favourite daughters as Hinda and Saifi Hindi. The fact that Arabs regarded India as their spiritual and cultural motherland long before the damaging influence of Islam is corroborated by the following poem which mentions each one of the four Vedas by name: (Note The English translation)
"Aya muwarekal araj yushaiya noha minar HIND-e Wa aradakallaha manyonaifail jikaratun" "Oh the divine land of HIND (India) (how) very blessed art thou! Because thou art the chosen of God blessed with knowledge" "Wahalatijali Yatun ainana sahabi akha-atun jikra Wahajayhi yonajjalur -rasu minal HINDATUN " "That celestial knowledge which like four lighthouses shone in such brilliance - through the (utterances of) Indian sages in fourfold abundance." "Yakuloonallaha ya ahal araf alameen kullahum Fattabe-u jikaratul VEDA bukkun malam yonajjaylatun" "God enjoins on all humans, follow with hands down The path the Vedas with his divine precept lay down." "Wahowa alamus SAMA wal YAJUR minallahay Tanajeelan Fa-e-noma ya akhigo mutiabay-an Yobassheriyona jatun" "Bursting with (Divine) knowledge are SAM & YAJUR bestowed on creation, Hence brothers respect and follow the Vedas, guides to salvation" "Wa-isa nain huma RIG ATHAR nasayhin Ka-a-Khuwatun Wa asant Ala-udan wabowa masha -e-ratun" "Two others, the Rig and Athar teach us fraternity, Sheltering under their lustre dispels darkness till eternity"
This poem was written by Labi-Bin-E- Akhtab-Bin-E-Turfa who lived in Arabia around 1850 B.C. That was 2300 years before Mohammed!!! This verse can be found in Sair- Ul-Okul which is an anthology of ancient Arabic poetry. It was compiled in 1742 AD under order of the Turkish Sultan Salim.

That the Vedas were the religious scriptures to which the Arabs owed allegiance as early as 1800 B.C. proves not only the antiquity of the Vedas but also the existence of Indian rule over the entire region from the Indus to the Mediterranean, because it is a fact of history that the religion of the ruler is practised by his subjects.

Vedic culture was very much alive just before the birth of Muhammad.

Again let's refer to the Sair-Ul-Okul. The following poem was written by Jirrham Bintoi who lived 165 years before the prophet Muhammed. It is in praise of India's great King Vikramaditya who had lived 500 years before Bintoi.

"Itrasshaphai Santul Bikramatul phehalameen Karimun Bihillahaya Samiminela Motakabbenaran Bihillaha Yubee qaid min howa Yaphakharu phajgal asari nahans Osirim Bayjayholeen Yaha sabdunya Kanateph natephi bijihalin Atadari Bilala masaurateen phakef Tasabahu. Kaunni eja majakaralhada walhada Achimiman, burukan, Kad, Toluho watastaru Bihillaha yakajibainana baleykulle amarena Phaheya jaunabil amaray Bikramatoon" - (Sair-ul-Okul, Page 315)
"Fortunate are those who were born during King Vikram's reign, he was a noble generous, dutiful ruler devoted to the welfare of his subjects. But at that time, We Arabs oblivious of divinity were lost in sensual pleasures. Plotting & torture were rampant. The darkness of ignorance had enveloped our country.

Like the lamb struggling for its life in the cruel jaws of a wolf, we Arabs were gripped by ignorance. The whole country was enveloped in a darkness as intense as on a New moon night. But the present dawn & pleasant sunshine of education is the result of the favor of that noble king Vikram whose benevolence did not lose sight of us foreigners as we were. He spread his sacred culture amongst us and sent scholars from his own land whose brilliance shone like that of the sun in our country. These scholars & preceptors through whose benevolence we were once again made aware of the presence of god, introduced to his secret knowledge & put on the road to truth, had come to our country to initiate us in that culture & impart education."
Thus we can see that Vedic religion and culture were present in Pre-Islamic Arabia as early as 1850 B.C., and definitely present at the time of Mohammed's birth.
In his book Origines, Volumes 3 & 4", Sir W. Drummond adds "Tsabaism was the universal language of mankind when Abraham received his call, their doctrines were probably extended all over the civilized nations of Earth."
Tsabaism is merely the corruption of the word Shaivism which is Vedic religion. On page 439 of this book, Sir Drummond mentions some of gods of pre-Islamic Arabs, all of which were included in the 360 idols that were consecrated in the Kaba shrine before it was raided and destroyed by Muhammad and his followers. Here are some of the Vedic deities and their original Sanskrit names:
Arabic SanskritEnglish Al-Dsaizan,Shani,Saturn/Al-Ozi or Ozza,Oorja,Divine energy/Al-Sharak,Shukra,Venus/Auds,Uddhav-Bag,Bhagwan,God/Bajar,Vajra,Indra's thunderbolt/Kabar,Kuber, God of wealth/Dar,Indra,King of gods/Dua Shara,Deveshwar, Lord of the gods,Habal,Bahubali,Lord of strength,Madan,Madan,God of love/Manaph, Manu,First Man/Manat, Somnath, Lord Shiv/Obodes,Bhoodev, Earth/Razeah,Rajesh,King of kings/Saad,Siddhi,God of Luck/Sair,Shree,Goddess of wealth/Sakiah,Shakrah,Indra/ Sawara,Shiva-Eshwar, God Shiva/Yauk, Yaksha, Divine being/Wad,Budh,Mercury/
The Kaba temple which was misappropriated and captured by Muslims was originally an International Vedic Shrine. The ancient Vedic scripture Harihareswar Mahatmya mentions that Lord Vishnu's footprints are consecrated in Mecca. An important clue to this fact is that Muslims call this holy precint Haram which is a deviation of the Sanskrit term Hariyam, i.e. the precint of Lord Hari alias Lord Vishnu. The relevant stanza reads:
"Ekam Padam Gayayantu MAKKAYAANTU Dwitiyakam Tritiyam Sthapitam Divyam Muktyai Shuklasya Sannidhau"
The allusion is to the Vamana incarnation of Lord Vishnu whose blessed feet were consecrated at three holy sites, namely Gaya, Mecca and Shukla Teertha. Worshipping such carved, holy foot impressions is a holy Vedic custom which convert Muslims are inadvertently perpetuating. But in doing this they delude themselves and mislead others that these foot-impressions which are on reverential display in several mosques and tombs around the world are in fact Muhammad's own. There are several snags in this argument. Firstly worshipping a foot -impression amounts to idolatry and should therefore be taboo for a true Muslim. Secondly Muhhamad disclaimed having performed any miracles. Therefore there can be no foot-impression of his on stone. Thirdly foot-impressions must always be in pairs like shoes. Yet in most of these shrines, it is usually a single footprint which suggests that Muhammad walked on only one foot. Another question that crops up is whether the foot-impression is of the same size and foot in all the shrines. The fact appears to be that when the Vedic Kaba shrine in Mecca was invaded by Muhammad, the pairs of foot impressions of Vedic deities there were plundered and later traded to the gullible and devout as Muhammad's own footprints for some favour, reward or personal gain by unscrupulous clergy. That is why they are single and not in pairs.
The Black Stone which is the Shiv Emblem (also known as Sange Aswad which is a corrupted form of the Sanskrit word Sanghey Ashweta--meaning non-white stone) still survives in the Kaba as the central object of Islamic veneration.
The Shiv Ling at The Kaba. It was broken in seven places and now is held together by a silver band.

All other Vedic Idols could be found buried in the precincts or trampled underfoot in labyrinthine subterranean corridors if archaeological excavations are undertaken. The Black Stone has been badly mutilated, its carved base has disappeared and the stone itself is broken at seven places. It's parts are now held together by a silver band studded with silver nails. It lies half buried in the South Eastern portion of the Kaba Wall. The term Kaba itself is a corruption of the Sanskrit word Gabha (Garbha + Graha) which means Sanctum.

In addition, in the inscriptions from Hajja and its neighborhood was found a votive vessel dedicated by members of two tribes called Rama and Somia. Rama and Soma are Vedic deities, Rama is of the Solar dynasty and Soma is of the Lunar Dynasty. The moon god was called by various names in pre-Islamic times, one of them was Allah. Allah had 3 children, Al-Lat, Al-Uzza and Manat. Al-Lat and Al-Uzza were both feminine deities. Alla is another name for the Hindu goddess Durga. It is obvious that the goddess Al-Lat was Alla (Durga) and Al-Uzza was Oorja (energy or life force also known as Shakti). Manat was none other than Somnath which is another name for Lord Shiva. One significant point to note that Soma in Sanskrit means Moon and Nath means Lord. Thus the Kaba itself was dedicated to the Moon God Somnath alias Shiv and the word Somnath was corrupted to Manat. The famous Black Stone is none other than the ShivLing of Makkeshwar alias Mecca. Lord Shiva is always shown with a crescent Moon on his head and every Shiva temple is supposed to have a sacred water spring representing the Ganges. The Crescent Moon pinnacle of the Kaba and the Zamzam spring (actually Zamza from Ganga) are irrefutable testaments to the Vedic origins of the Kaba.

Maqam-E-Ibrahim or more appropriately the pedestal of Brahma. Muslims from all over the world pay homage to this shrine. This shrine is actually the pedestal of Brahma. Notice that the word, Ibrahim is actually a corruption of the word, Brahma. The octogonal grill which is a Vedic design, protects the holy footprints which represent the start of the creation nearly 2000 million years ago.

Before it was captured by the Muslims it was an international shrine of the Vedic trinity.
In fact the names of the holiest of Muslim cities Mecca and Medina come from the Sanskrit words Makha-Medini which means the land of Fire-Worship. Even the most ancient names of these 2 cities were Mahcorava- which came from Mahadeva (Lord Shiva) and Yathrabn - which came from Yatra-Sthan (place of pilgrimage).

Islam came into being about 1372 years ago. It is well known that over 7500 years ago, at the time of the Mahabharat War, Kurus ruled the world. The scions of that family administered the different regions.

Prophet Muhammed himself and his family were adherents of Vedic culture.
The Encyclopedia Islamia admits as much when it says: "Muhammed's grandfather and uncles were hereditary priests of the Kaba temple which housed 360 idols!"
According to Arab traditions, Muhammad is a title. We do not know what name his parents had given him. We do however know that the central object of worship which survives at the Kaba today is a Shivling. That was allowed to remain there because that was the faceless family deity of Muhammad's family. One of the original names of Lord Shiv is Mahadev (The Great God) therefore it is entirely possible Muhammad came from Mahadev. This appears fairly certain because the Arabs still have a Mahadevi sect. Moreover the title Mehdi of a Muslim chief is also a malpronounciation of the term Mahadeva. According to Sanskrit etymology the term Muhammad implies 'a person of great inspiration' - 'Mahan Madah yasya assau Muhammadah' In a hostile sense it also implies 'a person of a proud and haughty temperament'.
The Qurayshi tribe into which Mohammed was born was particularly devoted to Allah and and the three children of the Moon God. Therefore when Muhammad decided to spread his own Divine religion, he took innumerable aspects of the daily Vedic culture that surrounded him and applied them to suit the temperment of his era.
About Kaaba

Why you hit stones at the wall of makka madina?

Every muslim is bound to perform Hajj (Pilgrim) in Makkah if he has the Financial as well as the Physical capacity to go there in the month of Zilhaj (the 12th month in the Islamic Calendar). Performing Hajj is the Sunnah of our Great Messenger of Allah Hazrat Ibrahim A.S.(Abraham) when he was tried to mislead by Shatan (Iblees) and he hitted stones to get him out of his way and we muslims do the same as ordered by our beloved Prophet Hazrat Muhammad S.A.W. at the place called Jamrat near the Arafat. Hope my answer is understandable. 



Is Shiva In Makka Madina

Lord Shankar's Holy Shivling is placed in the Makka-Madina, 
As everybody knows about the Lord Shiva's nature, 
He always wanted to make the universe happy, but he wasn't worried about himself, 
as many of you people might be knowing that how Lord Shiva gave the Vardana(Blessings) to Bhasmasur without thinking about the future. That's why he is also known as Bholenath. 

As in the case of Bhasmasur, Lord Shiv gave him vardana, the same is there in this case too. 

once upon a time, there was a person who did a great tapasya for Lord Shiva, and when it got succeeded he asked the Lord to stay in their country permanently. 

As Lord shiv is Bholenath, so he gave this vardana to him and said tathastu. 
From that time, He is residing in that shivling which is present in the Makka-Madina. 

Muslims are not telling it due to two reasons, 

(1) 99% of the muslims are unaware of this matter that whom they are praying is the Lord of the Hindus, They are considering themselves as the first to come in this world. 
But it's totally false. The Lord Shiva's Holy Symbol Shivling is placed in the Makka-Madina and all muslims are originally Hindus. 
No one else in this world is having different religion except hindus. 

(2) The radical muslims are trying to hide it because they are afraid that if they'll expose it to the whole world, then their culture would be in trouble. 

In actual, we all are Hindu, Muslims, Buddha and the rest brothers as all are derived from the Hindu religion itself. 
so there's no matter for any quarrel. Lets say we are all brothers.