I am OBSESSED with Persian culture. In my 3rd grade Hindi textbook there was a story of the King of the Farsi people “Sairas”. Since then outside of (North) Indian history I have been obsessed with Iranian history. Our neighbours at one point were Indian Parsis who traced their origins back to Iranshahr. I even visited the Fire Temple in Mumbai (although entry to non-Zoroastrians is prohibited), and mostly saw it from outside. After I complete my analysis of the Rig Veda I will study the Avesta. One day I will visit Iran (after covid goes) and especially the Shahr-I-Sokta and Persepolis.
Sairas is the indianisation of Cyrus the great you dumb northoid
Noah Kelly
Shouldnt you be trafficking drugs in Goa, Parsi Patel Baltiwala?
Dominic Reed
Why do you keep butchering Greco-Roman names? They aren't mean to be read in Anglo mode. Stop.
Robert Martinez
Bump
Gavin Hall
WRONG! Persianoid subhumans have no culture. They have nothing of interest. They are arab rapebabies with 0 culture mutts idiots who's women are not even worthy of BBC.
They are ugly, their language is retarded, they are literal monkeys who deserve to die
Sebastian Brooks
The Great Aljjeander was a Punjabi Sher.
Easton Walker
I like the 1989 game Prince of Persia
Jacob Flores
Indians knew about Cyrus the Great long before Anglos or Greeks. The Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley triggered the Indians to develop a military and lead to the rise of the Nanda Empire
Justin Cook
Then why did you write his name in English mode? If you know him well you would have called him using his original name in Persian, e.g. Kurush.
Christian Clark
I am also a great fan of Iranian history although most of my readings have been on history after Alexander's conquest
Ryder Baker
Persia is one of those few Islamic countries which take some pride in their old culture
Parker Morales
Because Kurush in Indian history conflates with another tribe — the Kurus of North Western India, you would know being Indonesian. The tribe that fought and destroyed itself in the Mahabharata.
Lincoln Taylor
Kurush refers to another tribe
Lucas Hughes
>NOOOOOOOOO, SIMPLE SIMILARITY OF NAMES MAKES ME CONFUSERINOOOOO NOOOOOOO
Benjamin Bailey
Do you say Alexander or Alexandros? Do you say Peter or Pyotr? Most people just say a famous general's name in the language of discussion
Carson Carter
Why are Bharatis such Persiaboos?
Liam Ortiz
holy shit I never actually realised this. Is there a link? I once remembered a paper by some folks saying that Yudhisthir, Bhima, and Karna were Iranian migrants, while Arjun, Krishna, Nakul and Sahdeva were Indians. So the Pandava army was a mix of Indians and Iranians according to the paper.
Of course, the king of the Kurus after the war becomes Yudhisthir.
Adrian Lee
> I once remembered a paper by some folks saying that Yudhisthir, Bhima, and Karna were Iranian migrants, while Arjun, Krishna, Nakul and Sahdeva were Indian Literally every singe Pandu was Gangetic born, even their uncle Krishna himself. Please don't larp as le white when the source says they were all brown skinned.
David Green
You're not a real boo if you don't know its language and just read a few shitty books in English.
Nicholas Mitchell
My dad reads russian literature and is a stalinboo. He's been watching bald and bankrupt a lot recently and says he doesnt believe stalin could have been *that* bad to other eastern europeans.
John Perez
No, you retard.
Yudhisthir is White skinned. Bhima is White skinned. Bhishma is White skinned. His name literally means “Shvetaveera” (White Warrior)
These are likely migrants. In some way or another.
Krishna is Black skinned. Arjuna is Black skinned, and curly haired. Draupadi is Black skinned. Nakul is Brown skinned, and so is Sahdev since they are twins.
All in all the Pandavas were a multiracial army.
Henry Diaz
The Dutch introduced us to the convention used by Germanic countries, e.g. classical names are read in its original language. Both Alexander and Alexandros are used because Latin and Greek have the same prestige, but for the Tsar it is always Pyotr.
Carter Thomas
>Yudhistr is white skinned He was brown just not madrasi or bihari tier. Bhisma is described as the white warrior because he was a brahmacharya who were clad in white.
But you may be right, bet they all had blonde hair and blue eyes even before it was introduced in Yurop, my Aryan brother haha.
When you read too much into Western liberalism and then browse Hindu scriptures you start speaking hilarious and bullshit statements like this. They were all Indians, of different shades of colour.
The entirety of the mahabharata involves a war between two tribes that lived in and around modern day Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. It's not even the entire continent lol.
Jordan Russell
>All in all the Pandavas were a multiracial army. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Jack Hernandez
Because he really wasn't. Stalin was much more cruel to our own population than any eastern european country whining about ***muh soviet oppression***. >My dad reads russian literature Interesting. Did he use translations or original? Generally speaking, is our literature popular in India?
John Hernandez
You literature especially your physics textbooks are household names here. Stuff like IE Irodov and SS Krotov. I think I’ve never seen an English translation of many of those Russian books not done by some Indian publication. Even online archives have Indian versions of the books only in English format.
Caleb Thomas
So a terrone
Jackson Reyes
>Stalin was much more cruel to our own population than any eastern european country whining about ***muh soviet oppression***. He says the same thing too, that his authoritarian way of handling competitors and dissenters was the only way he could pull such a large country with different people. >Generally speaking, is our literature popular in India? Most government colleges and universities have plenty of russian science papers and journals with a transliterated version of them. It certainly isn't popular now, but it was very common back in the 70s and 80s. He still has a russian astronomy journal from his college days. There used to be radio channels Moscow broadcasting in local languages across states in India.
