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Chapter 962 Indian Civilization
Chapter 962 Indian Civilization
As we all know, human society has undergone tremendous changes from ancient times to the present, but in fact human needs have not changed much.Therefore, when faced with many things in archaeology, it is often possible to guess the purpose.
To give an example, all kinds of daily necessities, especially common daily necessities such as tableware or tables, chairs and benches, even though there are great differences in appearance between ancient and modern times, in fact, after careful observation, you will find the commonality of the same item in different time periods.
But not all things are like this. For example, with the change of time, climate, civilized race, etc., some special things become so large that modern people can't even guess what those things do.
And the most common of such things are all kinds of religious supplies, because those things are very directional special items, so when the religion changes, no one will recognize such things.
Therefore, there is also an unwritten rule in archaeology, that is, if you encounter something you don't know, guess it is related to religion. In this case, the chance of guessing right is the highest.
More importantly, whether it is the information in another world or the clues found here, this bath does seem to be the core of the entire city.
Yes, the core of this city is not a common palace-style building or military building, but the heated water pool in front of Liang En and the others.
"In other words, is this a baptismal pool?" After listening to Liang En's simple explanation, Joan immediately thought of Christian baptism. "I didn't think there was a similar practice on the other side of the world."
"Purifying the body and soul with water is actually used in many religious rituals, such as the three Semitic religions, as well as Eastern Buddhism and Taoism." Liang En said with a smile.
"As for India, let alone, I think everyone of us should know about bathing in the Ganges, and this is likely to be some kind of religious custom that has been handed down from prehistoric times to today."
Traditionally, Hinduism generally believes that the Ganges is a holy river, the incarnation of the goddess of heaven, who descended to wash away the sins of the king's ancestors at the request of the king on earth.
Shiva used his head to bear the raging river water in the Himalayas, causing it to flow to the earth in seven ways. The flood purified the souls of the king's ancestors, irrigated the farmland, and nurtured the entire civilization.
Therefore, Hindu believers naturally have the religious habit of pilgrimage to the Ganges. For example, Varanasi, which is said to welcome the Ganges underwater, is the light of India for Hindus to pilgrimage.
Every day tens of thousands of Hindus go to the Ganges to bathe and hold religious ceremonies.The famous holy cities on both sides of the Ganges, such as Varanasi, Allahabad, and Haridwar, have a large number of religious occasions and holy places.
These religious occasions and holy places are always crowded with people. It is believed that the water of the Ganges can prolong life, and bathing in the Ganges can wash away the sins of a lifetime.Those who die on the banks of the Ganges, or are cremated or buried in water, will enjoy endless blessings in the afterlife.
For this reason, every year in India, many people from all over the country go to the Ganges to bathe. The bathers also use containers to transport the Ganges water back to their hometowns for collection, and drip a little when drinking water and eating.
It may be because of the special environment of the Ganges, or it may be that this river is really blessed by gods, so the whole river shows a very strong self-cleaning ability.
To give a simple example, when the British ruled India, the senior staff of the East India Company were very fond of using Ganges water in their daily life.
In addition, those ocean-going vessels also like to use Ganges water, because they find that the shelf life of Ganges water is indeed longer than that of ordinary river water.
However, with the advent of the industrial age and the development of Indian industry, especially in the modern age of rapid population increase in India, the purification capacity of the Ganges can no longer match the speed of pollution.
As a result, the originally clear water of the Ganges became increasingly turbid, and it never regained the grand occasion of the mother river of the South Asian subcontinent, so that for many people, directly drinking the water of the Ganges has become a life-threatening behavior.
Even so, bathing in the Ganges is still one of the most important religious activities for Hindus in India today. In a large-scale event every 12 years, millions of people will go here to bathe.
One thing we all know is that many things cannot happen suddenly, so the practice of combining bathing and religious rituals is probably older than Hinduism.
Even considering the hot climate of this part of India, their baptism may not be a simple ritual baptism, but a real bath.
Liang En's point of view was quickly supported by the scholars present, because the room here is indeed the most exquisite in the whole city, and if it matches the location here, it is indeed the most important building.
In ancient times, the most important buildings were often the palace of the political center or the religious place of the spiritual center. Considering that no king would soak in hot water for office work, this is basically a religious place.
Just when Liang En and the others were excavating, another group of people found a large number of granaries, which proved that the whole city is a city of agricultural civilization, which is why there are such grain storage facilities.
In addition to these buildings, Liang En and the others found a large number of human remains in the ruins, which proved that the city was not abandoned naturally, but was destroyed by an accident.
It's just that the scholars present have different opinions on how the city was destroyed. For example, some people at the scene believed that the city was destroyed by floods.
According to this scholar, due to the diversion of the ancient Indian river bed, the flooding of the river, the earthquake and the resulting floods, the ancient city located near the river was destroyed, and the residents in the city were drowned by the flood at the same time.
This does seem to be reasonable, but the problem is that the entire India and all civilizations in the basin were devastated at that time, and it is obviously impossible to explain the past with floods.
After all, Mohenjo-daro is located in the lower reaches of the Indus River, and it is indeed possible to be flooded, but the chances of the downstream diversion affecting the middle and upper reaches are not high.
The other Harappa ruins that were discovered and destroyed at almost the same time were located in the upper reaches of the Indus River. At the same time, judging from the river conditions near the ruins, it is unlikely to cause that kind of fatal flood.
Therefore, Liang En felt that this was likely to be related to the large-scale Aryan invasion at that time. After all, the Huaxia year corresponding to this site was equivalent to the Shang Dynasty, and the records of the Shang Dynasty at the same time did record the Aryan invasion. matter.
It’s just that unlike the Chinese Shang Dynasty who blocked the attack, the Indians failed completely. Although there is no official document record, we can see what the situation was like back then from the current situation in India:
The darker-skinned Dravidians today are concentrated in southern India, and a greater proportion belong to lower castes in the Hindu caste system.
On the contrary, those Aryan invaders who have whiter skin and look more like Central Asians now mostly live in the north, and the proportion of the population belonging to the high caste is much higher than that of the previous Dravidians.
In other words, those ancient Indians who created a brilliant civilization and the current Indians are no longer the same concept, so it can be said that Indian civilization is an interrupted civilization.
(End of this chapter)
As we all know, human society has undergone tremendous changes from ancient times to the present, but in fact human needs have not changed much.Therefore, when faced with many things in archaeology, it is often possible to guess the purpose.
To give an example, all kinds of daily necessities, especially common daily necessities such as tableware or tables, chairs and benches, even though there are great differences in appearance between ancient and modern times, in fact, after careful observation, you will find the commonality of the same item in different time periods.
But not all things are like this. For example, with the change of time, climate, civilized race, etc., some special things become so large that modern people can't even guess what those things do.
And the most common of such things are all kinds of religious supplies, because those things are very directional special items, so when the religion changes, no one will recognize such things.
Therefore, there is also an unwritten rule in archaeology, that is, if you encounter something you don't know, guess it is related to religion. In this case, the chance of guessing right is the highest.
More importantly, whether it is the information in another world or the clues found here, this bath does seem to be the core of the entire city.
Yes, the core of this city is not a common palace-style building or military building, but the heated water pool in front of Liang En and the others.
"In other words, is this a baptismal pool?" After listening to Liang En's simple explanation, Joan immediately thought of Christian baptism. "I didn't think there was a similar practice on the other side of the world."
"Purifying the body and soul with water is actually used in many religious rituals, such as the three Semitic religions, as well as Eastern Buddhism and Taoism." Liang En said with a smile.
"As for India, let alone, I think everyone of us should know about bathing in the Ganges, and this is likely to be some kind of religious custom that has been handed down from prehistoric times to today."
Traditionally, Hinduism generally believes that the Ganges is a holy river, the incarnation of the goddess of heaven, who descended to wash away the sins of the king's ancestors at the request of the king on earth.
Shiva used his head to bear the raging river water in the Himalayas, causing it to flow to the earth in seven ways. The flood purified the souls of the king's ancestors, irrigated the farmland, and nurtured the entire civilization.
Therefore, Hindu believers naturally have the religious habit of pilgrimage to the Ganges. For example, Varanasi, which is said to welcome the Ganges underwater, is the light of India for Hindus to pilgrimage.
Every day tens of thousands of Hindus go to the Ganges to bathe and hold religious ceremonies.The famous holy cities on both sides of the Ganges, such as Varanasi, Allahabad, and Haridwar, have a large number of religious occasions and holy places.
These religious occasions and holy places are always crowded with people. It is believed that the water of the Ganges can prolong life, and bathing in the Ganges can wash away the sins of a lifetime.Those who die on the banks of the Ganges, or are cremated or buried in water, will enjoy endless blessings in the afterlife.
For this reason, every year in India, many people from all over the country go to the Ganges to bathe. The bathers also use containers to transport the Ganges water back to their hometowns for collection, and drip a little when drinking water and eating.
It may be because of the special environment of the Ganges, or it may be that this river is really blessed by gods, so the whole river shows a very strong self-cleaning ability.
To give a simple example, when the British ruled India, the senior staff of the East India Company were very fond of using Ganges water in their daily life.
In addition, those ocean-going vessels also like to use Ganges water, because they find that the shelf life of Ganges water is indeed longer than that of ordinary river water.
However, with the advent of the industrial age and the development of Indian industry, especially in the modern age of rapid population increase in India, the purification capacity of the Ganges can no longer match the speed of pollution.
As a result, the originally clear water of the Ganges became increasingly turbid, and it never regained the grand occasion of the mother river of the South Asian subcontinent, so that for many people, directly drinking the water of the Ganges has become a life-threatening behavior.
Even so, bathing in the Ganges is still one of the most important religious activities for Hindus in India today. In a large-scale event every 12 years, millions of people will go here to bathe.
One thing we all know is that many things cannot happen suddenly, so the practice of combining bathing and religious rituals is probably older than Hinduism.
Even considering the hot climate of this part of India, their baptism may not be a simple ritual baptism, but a real bath.
Liang En's point of view was quickly supported by the scholars present, because the room here is indeed the most exquisite in the whole city, and if it matches the location here, it is indeed the most important building.
In ancient times, the most important buildings were often the palace of the political center or the religious place of the spiritual center. Considering that no king would soak in hot water for office work, this is basically a religious place.
Just when Liang En and the others were excavating, another group of people found a large number of granaries, which proved that the whole city is a city of agricultural civilization, which is why there are such grain storage facilities.
In addition to these buildings, Liang En and the others found a large number of human remains in the ruins, which proved that the city was not abandoned naturally, but was destroyed by an accident.
It's just that the scholars present have different opinions on how the city was destroyed. For example, some people at the scene believed that the city was destroyed by floods.
According to this scholar, due to the diversion of the ancient Indian river bed, the flooding of the river, the earthquake and the resulting floods, the ancient city located near the river was destroyed, and the residents in the city were drowned by the flood at the same time.
This does seem to be reasonable, but the problem is that the entire India and all civilizations in the basin were devastated at that time, and it is obviously impossible to explain the past with floods.
After all, Mohenjo-daro is located in the lower reaches of the Indus River, and it is indeed possible to be flooded, but the chances of the downstream diversion affecting the middle and upper reaches are not high.
The other Harappa ruins that were discovered and destroyed at almost the same time were located in the upper reaches of the Indus River. At the same time, judging from the river conditions near the ruins, it is unlikely to cause that kind of fatal flood.
Therefore, Liang En felt that this was likely to be related to the large-scale Aryan invasion at that time. After all, the Huaxia year corresponding to this site was equivalent to the Shang Dynasty, and the records of the Shang Dynasty at the same time did record the Aryan invasion. matter.
It’s just that unlike the Chinese Shang Dynasty who blocked the attack, the Indians failed completely. Although there is no official document record, we can see what the situation was like back then from the current situation in India:
The darker-skinned Dravidians today are concentrated in southern India, and a greater proportion belong to lower castes in the Hindu caste system.
On the contrary, those Aryan invaders who have whiter skin and look more like Central Asians now mostly live in the north, and the proportion of the population belonging to the high caste is much higher than that of the previous Dravidians.
In other words, those ancient Indians who created a brilliant civilization and the current Indians are no longer the same concept, so it can be said that Indian civilization is an interrupted civilization.
(End of this chapter)
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