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Original Home of Aryans

Various theories have come forward regarding the ancestral home of the

Aryans, but none prove to be authentic.

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Original Home of Aryanscontroversy prevails amongst historians about the

original home of the Aryans. Historians have advocated four theories in this

respect. They have used the art of linguistics, archaeological investigation,

racial specialties etc., to prove the site of the Aryans ancestral dwelling.

!"# $uropean Theory

%hilologists li&e %. 'ilippo Sassetti and Sir (illiam )one are proponents of this

theory. According to them, Sans&rit was only a sister language and not a

parent language. They have tried to establish Sans&rits resemblance with

other $uropean languages. They elucidate that the words %itra and *atra in

Sans&rit are the same as +ater and *ater of atin, %ider and *ader of

%ersian and 'ather and *other in $nglish. This view hints that the Aryans

inhabited in some place in $urope and voyaged to various places and the

Aryans who came to -ndia, were an oshoot of the $uropeans. The new view

identi/es the following centres as the original abode of the Aryans:0

!a# Hungary0According to 1r. %. 2iles and %rof. *acdonell, the ancestral

motherland of the Aryans was located in Hungary, i.e., the present0day

regions of Austria, Hungary and 3ohemia. 4attle rearing and agriculture was

possible in this region as a daily occupation. 3esides a5nity of the languages,

6ora and fauna with which the Aryans were conversant, could only be from a

cold area li&e this. 7eferences of -ndian 2ods li&e lndra and Varun have been

identi/ed in the e8cavations of 3ogha9oi. 'urthermore, the names of

monarchs of 3abylonia and *esopotamia are parallel to the names of -ndo0

Aryans. This depicts that the Aryans arrived in -ndia, through %ersia.

However, this view has not been recognised by historians.

!b# 2ermany0According to 3randenstein, the ancestral home of the Aryans

was 2ermany. According to %en&a, the celebrated 2ermany scholar, the

Scandinavians have always spo&en -ndo0$uropean language and people from

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However, oppositions of this theory point out that such a small place can

never be the ancestral home of a huge ma

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