Aryan Migration to Nepal
- bigyandixit
- Jun 6, 2011
- 7 min read
It is really interesting to know how and where you have come from. Am a Brahmin born in Nepal and right from my childhood, I had a deep thought about my origin. Had heard few mentions in Mahabharata that the people were called Arya. And there were things which pointed that Brahmins and Chhetris with Aryans roots. Since Aryans are not an indigenous people of Nepal; most of them have reached Nepal migrating through India. But that was not my main concern, I was very curious to find the migration path of Aryans from the very beginning, How they travelled from Middle east to today’s South Asia. It must be very different world then when there were no borders and no continents like today.
On one other parallel interesting story, I had one Iranian (Persian) friend with whom I had discussed about human migration and their descent. Once she told me that, “she is an Aryan descent Persian”, and I was very surprised and i too said, “am an Aryan”, and she immediately asked my tribe, I said, That i don’t know, then she replied that I might be Kurdish. Then I was so confused, I had previously thought that only Brahmins and Chettri were Aryans, and my thought was Iranian were more close to arab but that was untrue, she seem to be not.
Then I had a deep quest to know how Aryans migrated from middle east Asia, because even my Great grandmother had told me that our ancestor had migrated from far away west from somewhere near modern middle Iraq. I already felt that my descent was not kurdish but wanted to know that precisely what could it be. Then I started research about the matter on internet.
I felt that if we could track the data of evolution of our language then we can track the human migration route as well. I started to track the roots of every language, we Aryans use Sanskrit as the language used for worship and other things, and Sanskrit is the mother of many other languages as well. I had heard somewhere that Sanskrit was the mother language of even the European languages, but when I read the language tree I was totally wrong. I know there is no absolute truth till now still I thought Sanskrit the mother of all languages but indo-Iranian language was the mother language even of the Sanskrit language. But we still might be wrong because Sanskrit is supposed to be one of the oldest language till now. So let’s not go deeper in finding which language is the mother of all languages Because we just want to find the migration route of Aryans to Nepal. It is clearly shown in the language tree that proto-indo-European language evolves into indo-Iranian which further divides into Old Iranian and Sanskrit language. I know the evolution of language won’t be a precise thing to predict the human migration route but I think this can be a basis to further research for the proof.
From the language tree we can clearly see that the Aryans and Iranian people have a deep link, it seems as we did originated from the same tribe back in the past, and separated due to the long migration. The fact that the indo-Iranian language seem to be the mother language of Sanskrit and all Iranian languages can be well visualized from the language tree. And one more thing about my friend’s prediction about us being Kurdish cannot be truthful because we can see the Kurdish evolved from the Old Iranian language.
Till now I had already figured out that the Aryans were the dwellers from the Middle East Asia, and the group of our ancestors had settled in Iran, The great Persian Empire which was among the biggest empire in the history, which now is more reduced to Iran only due to Muslim evasion.
So the Group of Aryans who settled in Iran became Persians, Kurdish and so on. And may be a split in this population which then further migrated from Iran to afghanistan and then to Kasmir entering into Modern day India. These are the Aryans or Indic, Travelled a long distance spreading into these new lands which were already populated by other indigenous tribe like Dravidians in india and Mongolians in Nepal.
Diagram to show how Aryans brought Nepali language right from middle east to Nepal. And we can see our native Nepali Language has evolved from the old Indo-Iranian Language, to Sanskrit then to many there forms and to as well Nepali. I would like to remind the fact that the “Pali” language which was written and spoken at the time of Buddha is also one of the derivative of Sanskrit language.
Here is a beautiful quote about Sanskrit Language.
” The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either: yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all without believing them to have sprung from some common source which perhaps no longer exists…” Sir William Jones (1746-1794)
Who are Aryans: (Cut from a website)
The Aryans were remarkably expansionist, and almost everywhere they went they conquered and subjugated the indigenous people, imposing their languages and (to varying degrees) their religious beliefs on the natives, and receiving in turn contributions from the people whom they conquered. Aryan invasions — or more accurately, a long sequence of different invasions by speakers of Indo-European languages — swept across Old Europe beginning as early as the fourth millennium BC, and over time the conquerors and the conquered melded into specific people with distinctive languages. Most of the contemporary inhabitants of Europe, along with their respective early national cultures, are the result of interaction between successive waves of Aryan invaders and culture of the particular White people that they conquered and with whom they later intermarried, and as a result almost all modern European languages are members of the Western branch of the IE family tree.The birth of a European culture, however, predates the arrival of the Indo-Europeans: The cave art of Lascaux, which some have identified as the first flowering of Western man`s creative genius, was the work of Old Europeans, as were Stonehenge in the North and the Minoan Palace culture of Crete in the South. A pan-European religious symbolism had already evolved, much of which was later incorporated into IE mythologies, including various regional adaptations of the ubiquitous Old European reverence for the Mother Goddess. Many of the principal figures in Greek mythology predate the arrival of Aryans, and during the course of ancient history Old European religious beliefs and practices continually reasserted themselves. [Image: Minoan snake goddess, from the Palace of Minos, circa 1600 BC] Europe is European because the conquerors and the conquered were members the same White race, different branches on the same family tree; India is a morass of poverty because the bulk of the conquered, with whom the Indo-Aryans eventually intermarried, were non-White Veddoids. The lesson is obvious. Even today high-caste Hindus can still be identified by their Caucasian features and light skin, and the poorest and most backward parts of India are generally the darkest.
Indo-Aryan Derivatives:
Here is a list of languages or derivatives of Indo-Aryan Languages spoken in various place in south Asia. Sanskrit is the mother language of all these languages listed aside.
Aryan Migration to Nepal:
So this is the picture we all are waiting from my non scholarly research and my findings here. I have finally made an approximate picture of how Aryans might have traveled from Middle east of Asia to India Pakistan and Nepal as well. And later mixed with the indigenous population.
People with Aryan descent are also called as “Khas” in Nepal. And the language used by the Aryans are also known as “Khas Bhasa”. Hence we can clearly see from the map and the conclusions derived from the language tree, that the Roots of Aryans might have come from middle east Asia around 1750 Bc. The Aryans Divided into Persians and Indic people, Persians settled in Persia known as Iran today. Where as the other group of Aryans migrated from Iran to Afghanistan to Pakistan to North India/Kashmir who further migrated to Nepal via hills.
In the End:
I do feel to know more about my ancestors and their migration route. I know am more related to Middle Eastern Tribe than to other races in the world. And to know Iranian are Persian not arabs was very interesting. But to know precisely, that how These middle eastern Tribe of people migrated towards the himalayan region of Nepal could be a topic of deeper research. German also thought they were Aryans at one moment of time this is bit controversial theory. Soon the gene testing would get lot accessible to public and We can have more accurate knowledge by these test. It has been known that Kashmiri Pakistani (Aryans) are more related to European race than to Arabs. Which is a very interesting fact to know about. And modern day fair brahmins/Chettris might have come from same tribe. Hence a lot of open questions at the end. Just one of the Hypothesis.
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