š¹IF THE CHINESE CAN CLAIM AKSAI CHIN AND THE GALWAN VALLEY INDIA CAN CLAIM THE WHOLE OF XINJIANG, ANCIENT KHOTAN, WHERE SANSKRIT AND ITS DERIVATIVES WERE THE SPOKEN LANGUAGES AND THE RAMAYANA, THE MAIN RELIGIOUS TEXTš¹
š¹Unlike the Chinese claims that rest on claims that are so extraordinarily fake as to be not not even worth commenting on, if culture is a criterion for claims on land then Xinjiang is part of the Great āIndianā Civilisation
š¹And since itās open season on laying claim to each otherās territory, whyever not? The same Xinjiang where the Chinese have BANNED ISLAM, imprisoned more than a million Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps and made possession of The Holy Koran a crime!
š¹Most people do not know that until about a thousand years ago, the Tarim Basin (northwest of Tibet, which is the part of Xinjiang below the Tian Shin Mountains) was Indic in culture and it was a thriving part of the Sanskritic world; its people spoke the GÄndhÄrÄ« language which many see as descended from Vedic Sanskrit, and the closely related Khotanese Saka. Perhaps the region to compare it most is Kashmir, to whose north it lay
š¹There was also much interaction between the two regions with many scholars traveling from Kashmir to Khotan, and silk culture is believed to have passed from Khotan to Kashmir and then into rest of India.
š¹GÄndhÄrÄ« inscriptions have been found as far east as Luoyang and Anyang in Henan province in Eastern China which attests to the vastness of the influence of Sanskrit. Europeans in recent centuries called the whole region Serindia, indicating the meeting place of China and India.
š¹Khotanese kings were MahÄyÄna Buddhist but we know this sect incorporates Vedic and Tantric systems, with all the devas such as Indra, Åiva, Viį¹£į¹u and SarasvatÄ«, and just places the Buddha at the head of the system (as in VidyÄkaraās Treasury).
š¹There was also Krishna worship in Khotan and we find the RÄma story in Khotanese language, of which there is also a Tibetan version.
š¹The Buddhists put a characteristic spin on the RÄma story, which has had immense power on the imagination of the people all over Asia. In their variant, RÄvaį¹a, after losing the war is spared his life, and becomes a worthy Buddhist to accord with the Laį¹
kÄvatÄrasÅ«tra, set in Laį¹
kÄ, in which the Buddha instructs RÄvaį¹a. (Likewise, in order not to lose followers of RÄma, Jain texts show him as a faithful Jain.)
š¹The Khotanese RÄmÄyaį¹a is not the standard RÄma story. In it DaÅaratha, who is called SahasrabÄhu (āthousand-armedā), fights with ParaÅurÄma and gets killed, and his sons RÄma and Lakį¹£maį¹a are saved by a queen. When they grow older they slay ParaÅurÄma in revenge and become masters of all JambudvÄ«pa.
š¹Has the Foreign Office /Ministry of External Affairs considered the above?
š¹And I am serious; since the Chinese are serious about FAKERY and COMICAL CLAIMS itās time to hit them back with Civilisational Claims of our own!
If Pangong Tso Can Be Claimed By China, Xinjiang is INDIAN by RKB
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