Ancient African Kings Of India
By
Dr. Clyde Winters
Ethiopians have had very intimate relations with Indians. In fact, in antiquity the Ethiopians ruled much of India. These Ethiopians were called the Naga. It was the Naga who created Sanskrit.
A reading of ancient Dravidian literature which dates back to 500 BC, gives us considerable information on the Naga. In Indian tradition the Naga won central India from the Villavar (bowmen) and Minavar (fishermen).
The Naga were great seamen who ruled much of India, Sri Lanka and Burma. To the Aryans they described as half man and snake. The Tamil knew them as warlike people who used the bow and noose.
The earliest mention of the Naga, appear in the Ramayana , they are also mentioned in the Mahabharata. In the Mahabharata we discover that the
Naga had the capital city in the Dekkan, and other cities spread between the Jumna and Ganges as early as 1300 BC. The Dravidian classic, the Chilappathikaran made it clear that the first great kingdom of India was
Naganadu.
The Naga probably came from Kush-Punt/Ethiopia. The Puntites were the greatest sailors of the ancient world. In the Egyptian inscriptions there is mention of the Puntite ports of Outculit, Hamesu and Tekaru, which corresponds to Adulis, Hamasen and Tigre.
In Sumerian text, it is claimed that the Puntites traded with the people of the Indus Valley or Dilmun. According to S.N. Kramer in The Sumerians, part of Punt was probably called Meluhha, and Dilmun was probably the ancient name of the Indus Valley. (Today some scholars maintain that Oman, where we find no ancient cities was Dilmun and the Indus Valley may have been Meluhha).
Ancient Ethiopian traditions support the rule of Puntites or Ethiopians of India. In the Kebra Nagast, we find mention of the Arwe kings who ruled India. The founder of the dynasty was Za Besi Angabo. This dynasty according to the Kebra Nagast began around 1370 BC. These rulers of India and Ethiopia were called Nagas. The Kebra Nagast claims that ” Queen Makeda “had servants and merchants; they traded for her at sea and on land in the Indies and Aswan”. It also says that her son Ebna Hakim or Menelik I, made a campaign in the Indian Sea; the king of India made gifts and donations and prostrated himself before him”. It is also said that Menalik ruled an empire that extended from the rivers of Egypt (Blue Nile) to the west and from the south Shoa to eastern India”, according to the Kebra
Nagast. The Kebra Nagast identification of an eastern Indian empre ruled by
the Naga, corresponds to the Naga colonies in the Dekkan, and on the East
coast between the Kaviri and Vaigai rivers.
The presence of Meluhhaites/ Puntites in India may expain the Greek tradition of Kusites ruling India up to the Ganges. It would also explain the Aryan traditions of Mlechchas ( Sanskrit name for some of the non-Aryan people) as one of the aboriginal groups of India. Many scholars associate the name Mlechchas with Meluhha.
The major Naga tribes were the Maravar, Eyinar, Oliyar, Oviyar, Aru-Valur and Parathavar. The Nagas resisted the invansion of the Cholas. In the Kalittokai IV,1-5, the Naga are described as being “of strong limbs and hardy frames and fierce looking tigers wearing long and curled locks of hair.” The Naga kings of Sri Lanka are mentioned in the: Mahawanso, and are said to have later become Dravidians, as testified to by the names of these people: Naganathan, Nagaratnam, Nagaraja and etc.
The major gift of the Naga to India was the writing system: Nagari. Nagari is the name for the Sanskrit script. Over a hundred years ago Sir William Jones, pointed out that the ancient Ethiopic and Sanskrit writing are one and the same.
William Jones, explained that the Ethiopian origin of Sanskrit was supported by the fact that both writing systems the writing went from left to right and the vowels
were annexed to the consonants. Today Eurocentric scholars teach that Indians taught writing to the Ethiopians, yet the name Nagari for Sanskrit betrays the Ethiopia origin of this form of writing. Moreover, it is interesting to note that Sanskrit vowels: a,aa,’,I,u,e,o, virama etc., are in the same order as Geez.
The Ethiopian script has influenced many other writing systems. Y.M. Kobishnor, in the Unesco History of Africa, maintains that Ethiopic was used as the model for Armenian writing, as was many of the Transcaucasian scripts. Dravidian literature indicate that the Naga may have introduced worship of Kali, the Serpent, Murugan and the Sun or Krishna. It is interesting to note that a god called Murugan is worshipped by many people in East Africa.
It is interesting that Krishna, who was associated with the Sun, means Black, this is analogous to the meaning of Khons of the Kushites. Homer, described Hercules as follows: “Black he stood as night his bow uncased, his arrow string for flight”. This mention of arrows identifies the Kushites as warriors who
used the bow, a common weapon of the Kushites and the Naga.
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Kumarinadu
The Naga or Ethiopians were defeated by Dravidian speaking people from Kumarinadu. Kamarinadu is suppose to have formerly existed as a large Island in the India ocean which connected India with East Africa. This landmass is mentioned in the Silappadikaram, which said that Kamarinadu was made up of seven nadus or regions. The Dravidian scholars Adiyarkunallar and Nachinaar wrote about the ancient principalities of Tamilaham, which existed on Kamarinadu.
Kumarinadu was ruled by the Pandyans/Pandians at Madurai before it
sunk beneath the sea. The greatest king of Kumarinadu was Sengoon.
According to Dravidian scholars the Pandyans worshipped the goddess Kumari Amman. This Amman, probably corresponds to the ancient god Amon of the Kushites.
The Kalittokai 104, makes it clear that after the Pandyans were forced to migrate off their Island home into South India, “to compensate for the area lost to the great waves of the sea, King Pandia without tiresome moved to the other countries and won them. Removing the emblems of tiger (Cholas) and bow (Cheras) he, in their place inscribed his reputed emblem fish (Pandia’s) and valiantly made his enemies bow to him”.
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excuse me why is it considered racist if scholars say that indians have genetic roots from Africa What’s wrong with being african..just proves how indians are sooo racist against blacks. It’s Indians who are racist! who always want to relate themselves to fucking europeans. This man is a scholar and I doubt he will get any benefit by proving that there is african DNA in India. Why should one be ashamed of their african roots!!!?
Nisha, go take a look at Blacks and their history and you will see why.
Go where Khush to the U.S. white house – where a black man lives?
Nisha – if the high caste Hindus had their way, they would be even attributing their sense of rhythym to European ancestors and claiming it was brought to the darker types of Dravidians and other Indians – who they are now claiming are not the true Dravidians. . I had East Indian acquaintances of low caste or untouchables (Daalit) who swear Indians are the most racist people on earth. But one need not be told that by other Indians to know there is a lot of basis to their beliefs, and I say that as someone who though black has some ancestors derived from north west India among the first indentured Indians in the U.S. Actually I will be tactful and say many Indians from India and particularly upper caste Hindus are among people most fearful of their own blackness in the world. While others are among the most humble and accepting of who they are and who you are. You find such extremes in different areas of life among all peoples.
We so called “black people” I am sure you will agree have our own set of problems obviously that I also find it more than difficult to tolerate at times, but I will not air dirty laundry here – at least not now .
I heard even d Gandhiji had some racism in him living in Africa. However, it is important for us not to assume that all Indians are like these upper caste Indians who can’t stand anything to do with blackness and Hindu people of lower caste. Many Muslim Indians, Christians and non-Brahmins and in fact the fairest Indians are often not as racist as the many millions of browner skinned Indians that have for a long time thought they were better than blacks. Partly because of their own racist history which dates from the time Scythian invaders came into Central Asia and Iran and started taking advantage of the darker “races” and partly because of the Zanj (blacks from Africa) that were brought into their country during the late islamic era as mercenary slaves or servants.
In an earlier statement I meant to say Sanskrit probably originated less 3,500 years ago around the time of the Kingdom of Mitanni who were probably the earliest Med or Medes and descendants of the Hyksos, Ad da’a or Ad Dahaka (so called desendants of Zohak) and other Arabian people.
It is also interesting that Dr. makes mention of Kamarnadu as being somewhere between East Africa and India in the Indian Ocean. The Kamar or Qamar a group of the Mahra a tall and dark brown population who live in both Oman, Hadramaut and east Africa are probably connected since they are said to have settled the Komoros Islands. The Mahra, Ad and Amlukh (Meluchhas?) are also closely connected peoples in Arabian history and genealogy. The word Kamar is said to mean moon.
@ Dana……Genetically, Obama is as much white as he is black. However he grew up with his white mother´s family and therefore he is not a good example.
Nisha, go look at Obama´s brother in Kenya.
No – in fact Khush i think we should take a close look at who built and in fact designed the White House and much of Washington, D.C. Let me tell you a story about Benjamin Banneker and other African Washingtonians sometime since obviously the Europeans who birthed half of your ancestors aren’t saying anything to you about it.
I guess obama is like you then, Khush. Maybe Nisha should visit Mumbai and Delhi while she’s at it. What’s she going to see different?
Hey Dana…I invite u to come over to South Africa and check out the great African architects and builders. BTW, I think Obama is great, but he is no African American. Best thing Africa did for him, was when his dad walked out on him.
Hindus didn’t build great Zimbabwe – who cares what people did under European colonialism. And why is it the skeletons of pyramids and ziggurats in ancient Mesopotamia and Mexico always seem associated with big Negroid blacks. As far as i can see blacks are the reason THERE IS ARCHTECTURE. Early indus valley civilization, pre-dynastic Egyptians, and the nubians were also the same popoulations. Just because people in India have since mixed with Iranic and Scythic peoples in the last 2,500 years doesn’t make them better than Bantu Africans. lol!
And the best thing Africa did for your Khalsa family was to succour your slave Indian grandfather and provide him with a new future for his butt naked and poverty ridden black Indian arse.
Jahdey
I am 100% South African Jahdey.
But I sure am glad my poor grandfather had the sense and pioneering spirit to leave Hindustan to settle in the Republic and help develop this beautiful country. No regrets here, cos I love South Africa and Africa. Just wish you Africanists would develop a love for your own covenant lands and stop this infatuation with continent Africa…….its not yours and never was.
Since when did Africa not belong to Africans of the diaspora? What fucking proof do you have for that? Ok where did we come from then, since it isn’t Africa? Wow the crazy ass people on this website. This is sad, we have all these outsiders wanting to claim Africa but are responsible for the state Africa is in.