Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Why Is Sanskrit Found in the Tribal Names & Languages of North & South American 'Indians'?

The video below (in 5 parts) is Grahm Hancocks's documentary 'Hindu India - The Birth of Civilization: Dwarka 10,000 Year Old Metropolis is Found'. [THE VIDEO NO LONGER AVAILABLE DUE TO 'THIRD PARTY NOTIFICATIONS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT' ...] Lately I've been wondering what kind of impact this 2001 discovery of a 10,000 year old 'metropolis' submerged off the coast of northwestern India has made on modern man. How thoroughly has this site been studied? How have the historians and history books adjusted to the evidence that Indian civilization was advanced enough to build such a city 10,000 years ago? I am currently reading a book titled 'India Once Ruled the Americas' by Gene D. Matlock that gives quite a bit of linguistic evidence that various waves of Indians colonized the Americas for thousands of years, forming or greatly influencing the Native American population. The obvious irony is that American Indian's were supposedly mistaken and henceforth dubbed 'Indians' by Christopher Columbus in the late 1400s. But considering the Sanskrit roots of the vocabulary and even the tribal names of many North and South American Indians, it seems that Native Americans really are, at least to some significant degree either of Indian descent or greatly influenced by India.

I came to be curious about this theme a few years ago when I noticed that the Monongahela River of West Virginia (where I was born), which was apparently the territory of the Monongahela tribe of Native Americans, sounded an awful lot like two Sanskrit words, Menaka - the wife of Himvat (a personification of the Himalayas) and hila - which means 'of a mountain'. Menakahila - Monongahela??? Menaka and Himvat are known in Indian lore to be the parents of the goddess Ganga/Parvati. I found out that the Monogahelia 'Indians' are thought to have migrated to the Appalachian territory from Asia some 12,000 to 15,000 years ago; and I then began to wonder if the 'wife of Himvat' showed up anywhere else in the ancient Appalachian mountains. As it turns out, there is actually a Meneka Peak in Seven Fountains, Virginia. Strangely enough the daughter of Menaka is Ganga (the personification of the Ganges River) who is said to have been poured through Shiva's hair to become the SEVEN sacred rivers of India. What an interesting coincidence between Meneka Peak and its Seven Fountains (named after seven springs) and Menaka's daughter, the Ganges, becoming seven rivers as it descended through the massive Himalayan mountains.

Now, upon reading Gene Matlock's book and being ever more familiar with the antiquity and wide scope or extension of the Vedic culture throughout the world, I am curious as to when such matters will be more widely examined. Is it just a coincidence that the Monongahela River happens to flow vertically down through the longitude 79 W and the source of the Ganges is 79 E longitude? If Vedic and post Vedic Indians really did colonize North and South America over many aeons, how did they personify or mythologize the ancient Appalachian mountains? Did they recognize a relationship between the Appalachians and the Himalayas?

Perhaps Grahm Hancock's documentary will encourage more exploration into the true history of Vedic India and its influence on the world. It is well worth 50 minutes of one's time.


Related Books and Articles:
'Who Discovered America' by Ricardo Palleres
'Etymology of native American words with Sanskrit roots'
Hindu America by Chaman Lal
India, Cradle of Cultures by Chaman Lal
'Sanskrit roots of some Pre-Columbian Native American words -- Hypothesis' by Anuprita Kadam



  1. Excellent article.
    It is very informative.
    I have forwarded this blog to many of my friends.

    Wish you all the best.


  2. Wonderful knowledge about our own civilization. Thanks for opening our mind to these extraordinary knowledge.

  3. Very interesting. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the history of america. Definitely I will recommend this blog to my friends.

  4. cant view the vidoes.any alternative link?

  5. I'll check this out and see if I can update the links. THX!

  6. Sorry I can't find a way to access this series ... what a shame! It was a good one.

  7. Thanks! Same goes for Pulatski= that is a influential sacred Brahmin who was associated with Ashura's and Maya Daanav per Indian textbooks like Ramayan written 10,000 years ago. Maya Daanav was great influential civil engineer of that time so when Sri Lanka was burned in retaliation air strike by Hanuman, the mighty bad King summoned his friend Maya to rebuid the city quickly again. I can go on..email me at nickmailusa@gmail.com and I will send you further info.