Sanskrit in Croatia: From Sarasvati to Hrvati
By James Cooper
For most of the Croatian people (or as they call themselves, Hrvati)
when it comes to defining their origins and tracing their ancient roots
they turn towards the land of Iran and Persia. According to academia the
name Hrvat comes from Hrovat which comes from the Slavic Horvat which
originates from the Indo/Slavic Harvat and which is ultimately traced to
Persia and the name Harahvaiti.
Harahvaiti however, is the
corrupted name of Sarasvati, the great Vedic Goddess, the Mother of
Sanskrit, the great river of the Rig Veda and the Goddess of learning.
The Persians had a tendency to replace a Sanskrit ‘S’ with a Persian
‘H’, and so the word Haravaiti is actually Sarasvati.
This
tendency can be seen in their word for ‘week’, hapta, which is in the
Sanskrit sapta meaning week. Their name for the ‘Sun’,Hvar, is the
Sanskrit Svar meaning the same. In the Avestan we find the seven rivers
of the Aryan land are described as hapta hendu, an obvious corruption of
sapta sindhu, the seven rivers of India. Finally there are the rivers
of Iran, Haravaiti and Harayu which are the Vedic rivers of Sarasvati
and Sarayu. And so if the name of Croat (Hrvat) comes from Harvat and
this in turn comes from Harahvaiti, we must conclude that the source is
Sarasvati.
Sarasvati is one of many words which are cognate with the Croatian language.
Med is a Croatian word meaning honey and this comes from the Sanskrit
Madhu, a name for Krsna. The Russian Medvedev and the Croatian Medvjed
both mean ‘honey eater’ a name for the bear and they both come from the
Sanskrit Madhava, a name for Krsna which means ‘he who intoxicates like
honey’. Below are some of the many similarities which are shared between
the Sanskrit and Croatian language.
According to academia, the
oldest recorded name Harvat, was found in the Mittani/Hurrian documents
spoken by King Tusratta some 3500 years ago. In the documents he refers
to his Kingdom as Huravat Ehillaku.
We should note, however,
that the King who spoke this 3,500 year old inscription was a
Vedic/Hindu King, Tusratta being a corruption of Dasaratha, dasa being
Sanskrit for ‘ten’ and ratha Sanskrit for ‘chariot’.
King
Dasaratha, according to academia, was one of many Vedic Kings who ruled
the Kingdom of Mittani. The chronology of these Mittani Kings are as
follows: Kirta - Suttarna - Baratarna - Parsatatar - Saustatar -
Rtadharma - Suttarna II - Artashumara - Dasaratha - Mativasa - Sattuara -
Vashasatta - Sattuara II.
These names are all Sanskrit/Vedic.
Suttarna is Sanskrit for ‘good son’; Dasaratha is Sanskrit for ‘ten
chariots’; Parsatatar is a variation of Sanskrit Parasu, ‘he who rules
with the axe’; Mativasa is Sanskrit for ‘the abode of prayer’;
Ritadharma is Sanskrit for ‘the law of dharma’ and Artashumara is
Sanskrit for ‘the winds of righteousness’.
It is an academic fact
that the Kingdom of Mittani was ruled by Vedic Kings. Here we note that
the capital of Mittani was called Vasukhani. Vasu being Sanskrit for
‘wealth’ and Khani means ‘mine’ – ‘a mine of wealth’. So if the roots of
Croatian civilization are intimately connected with Iran and Persia,
and in particular Mittani and the Hittites, one should take into
consideration the Vedic influence behind it all.
The Croatian
name for God is Bog which once again comes from the Sanskrit Bhaga,
meaning Bhagavan, ‘the supreme Lord’. We see a nice example of this in
the capital of Iraq, Bhagdad, Bhag being the Sanskrit Bhaga and dad
coming from the Sanskrit dadati meaning ‘gift’ – ‘the gift of God’.
Below are more similarities between the Sanskrit and Croatian languages.
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