A one-day international seminar was organized by the Department of Sanskrit, University of Delhi on the subject of “Rewriting Indian History" in the Light of Archaeology and Epigraphy.
The inaugural session of the seminar, a couple of days ago, was attended by the RSS Joint General Secretary Dr. Krishna Gopal as the chief guest.
Prof. Chandkiran Saluja, Director- Sanskrit Promotion Foundation, Prof. B. R. Mani and other dignitaries were present in the inaugural session along with Sr. Prof. Ramesh Chandra Bhardwaj, Head of Sanskrit Department, University of Delhi . The welcome address, was made by Prof. Om Nath Bimli, Director, Department of Sanskrit, South Campus, Delhi University.
Supporting the need for rewriting, Dr Krishna Gopal said "people who came 200 to 300 years ago wrote our history." Proposing that the Aryans are Indians, the RSS leader said that none of the European languages have the Maha-Prana-Swaras, only the Indians can produce these sounds.
He talked about thte fact that India gave democracy to the world, it did not come up after the French revolution.. Vaishali and Magadha were the first independent Ganarajyas, democratic entitities.. Vaishali had nearly 7000 representatives, he said.
In the inaugural statement delivered in the first session, the Head of Sanskrit Department, Prof. Ramesh Chandra Bhardwaj, stated that Delhi University is the world's largest and ancient Sanskrit center which is the house of the knowledge for various disciplines in Sanskrit and houses material on all subjects and grammar records.
Head of the Faculty of Social Sciences Arts at Nehru University, Prof. Kaushal Sharma propounded the importance of Geography in writing history. He said that Location is a truth. Monuments are the reality of the truth existing on those locations. If that is the reality you need interpret it. Geography helps us to realize history and validate facts.
He stated that all the major Shiva temples of India are located at latitude 79 east. The temple of Mahakal is situated at the center of the earth. Today the need of the hour is to connect Sanskrit ,History and Geography.
National Convener of Pragya Pravah, Dr. Nand Kumar said that Sanskrit is the mother of all languages, the person who has knowledge of Sanskrit will be able to understand any other Indian language.
In the colonial period, most of the work was done to destroy the history of our country because when we destroy the history of a country, then that country starts considering itself as inferior. That's why we need to rewrite our history, he said.
The primary objective of the Sanskrit department is to connect the students with their cultural heritage. He mentioned the contribution of The Ex-head of the Sanskrit department, Prof. Laxmidhar Kalla who worked towards establishing and writing of history on the basis of Vedic knowledge in the year 1930.
Prof BR Mani said that there is nothing called Aryans, and they should rather be referred to as Vedic population. He further stated that the c-14 datings of Ayodhya date Ayodhya back to 1700-1800 BC whereas the earlier dating was 700-800 BC. Many Archealogical institutions have agreed to it hence it breaks the conception of the Dark Age. He also spoke about three sacrificial pits found in Hastinapur excavations and advised to correlate it with probable mention of these in the Shatpat Brahmana granthas.
Special Guest of the event Prof. Chandkiran Saluja stated that Sanskrit is the basis of New Education Policy.