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Alexander the Great depicted in Indian texts
Alexander the Great, who invaded India in the hoary past, is not known to be mentioned in the Indian Sanskrit texts. A recent investigation by Ajith Kumar, however, reveals that the history of Alexander's Indian conquests in 326 BC are recounted as myths in the Indian texts known as the Puranas.
Alexander is depicted as the King of the Asuras in the Puranas.
How Alexander earned the epithet as the king of Asuras in the Sanskrit texts (Puranas) is an interesting fact. Alexander was designated and crowned at the Arbela temple in Persia as the king of the Asuras. Before invading India, Alexander had defeated the Persians at the three famous battles at the Granicus River, Issus, and Gaugamela. After the last battle at Gaugamela, having finally secured the countries of Persian emperor Darius, some important ceremonies took place, where Alexander was crowned as the king. After the victorious Battle of Gaugamela in Assyria, on 2 October 331 BC, in the Temple of Arbela (Erbil in Iraq), Alexander was consecrated and ordained as the King of the world. During the coronation ceremony at the cult center of the Persians at Arbela, according to the ancient records, the priests of the temple assigned him the title Sar-kissati, meaning the King of the world, and designated him the hounorable epithet as Asura Alexander.
The astrologers of these temples were hoarders of inscribed clay cuneiform tablets that recorded the history of Assyria and Babylon. These cuneiform tablets from the temples of Assyria have preserved the title of their kings as “Sar Kissati,” meaning king of the world. Thus, after the victory and the subsequent coronation ceremony in the Temple of Arbela, Alexander was chosen as the steward of Assur, and therefore his honorable name was Asura Alexander.
These clay tablets from the library of the Assyrian kings confirm that by the ancient traditions of Assyria, the new king was ceremonially named Asura, because the king was being chosen as the steward of the god Assur. These clay tablets record the names of some of their kings as Asura Nasirpal and Asur Ubalit, among others. (For instance, the inscription on the breast of another king’s statue in Arbela reads as: “Assur Nasir-pal…, sar-kissati sar Assur [the great king of the world, king of Assyria].”)
The people of Assyria were always known as the Asuras because they worshipped Assur, or Azura Mazda, according to the ancient Persian religion Zoroastrianism.
According to the Greek historians, he thereafter adopted Persian royal costumes and impressive sets of royal insignia, to convince the oriental people of his exalted status as the supreme king of the Asuras. Thus, before marching to India, Alexander had conquered the throne of the Asura kings of Assyria at their cult center at Arbela and been honored as the King of the Asura clans of Assyria and Persia.
Excitingly, we find that the word Asura appears in 249 recitations in the Mahabharata epic, proving that the Asuras were traditional enemies of the Indians.
With the conquest of Persia complete, and with its king dead, Alexander headed east into present-day Afghanistan to conquer and secure the eastern borders of the Persian empire.
Mahabali, who invaded India, was a ferocious Asura emperor, the king of the devils. In all the Indian texts, he was the emperor of the Asura clans, ruling the demons of the netherworld. How could Alexander the Great be depicted as the king of the Asuras in the Sanskrit Puranas?
The Bhagavata Purana, for instance, describes the mayhem caused by the Asura invasion, calling it a cosmic cataclysm. "Then Mahabali assembled his soldiers and all the demon chiefs, who were equally strong and magnificent like him. They appeared as if they would destroy the universe and burn everything with their fierce stares."
The untold story of Alexander's Indian expedition is narrated in the Sanskrit texts in allegorical formats, mixed with myths depicting unworldly characters. They also recount how he was murdered later with a weapon known as 'the destroyer of time.'
The 2 books are available on Amazon.
The Secret War
The Puranas
www.murderofalexanderthegreat.com
Alexander is depicted as the King of the Asuras in the Puranas.
How Alexander earned the epithet as the king of Asuras in the Sanskrit texts (Puranas) is an interesting fact. Alexander was designated and crowned at the Arbela temple in Persia as the king of the Asuras. Before invading India, Alexander had defeated the Persians at the three famous battles at the Granicus River, Issus, and Gaugamela. After the last battle at Gaugamela, having finally secured the countries of Persian emperor Darius, some important ceremonies took place, where Alexander was crowned as the king. After the victorious Battle of Gaugamela in Assyria, on 2 October 331 BC, in the Temple of Arbela (Erbil in Iraq), Alexander was consecrated and ordained as the King of the world. During the coronation ceremony at the cult center of the Persians at Arbela, according to the ancient records, the priests of the temple assigned him the title Sar-kissati, meaning the King of the world, and designated him the hounorable epithet as Asura Alexander.
The astrologers of these temples were hoarders of inscribed clay cuneiform tablets that recorded the history of Assyria and Babylon. These cuneiform tablets from the temples of Assyria have preserved the title of their kings as “Sar Kissati,” meaning king of the world. Thus, after the victory and the subsequent coronation ceremony in the Temple of Arbela, Alexander was chosen as the steward of Assur, and therefore his honorable name was Asura Alexander.
These clay tablets from the library of the Assyrian kings confirm that by the ancient traditions of Assyria, the new king was ceremonially named Asura, because the king was being chosen as the steward of the god Assur. These clay tablets record the names of some of their kings as Asura Nasirpal and Asur Ubalit, among others. (For instance, the inscription on the breast of another king’s statue in Arbela reads as: “Assur Nasir-pal…, sar-kissati sar Assur [the great king of the world, king of Assyria].”)
The people of Assyria were always known as the Asuras because they worshipped Assur, or Azura Mazda, according to the ancient Persian religion Zoroastrianism.
According to the Greek historians, he thereafter adopted Persian royal costumes and impressive sets of royal insignia, to convince the oriental people of his exalted status as the supreme king of the Asuras. Thus, before marching to India, Alexander had conquered the throne of the Asura kings of Assyria at their cult center at Arbela and been honored as the King of the Asura clans of Assyria and Persia.
Excitingly, we find that the word Asura appears in 249 recitations in the Mahabharata epic, proving that the Asuras were traditional enemies of the Indians.
With the conquest of Persia complete, and with its king dead, Alexander headed east into present-day Afghanistan to conquer and secure the eastern borders of the Persian empire.
Mahabali, who invaded India, was a ferocious Asura emperor, the king of the devils. In all the Indian texts, he was the emperor of the Asura clans, ruling the demons of the netherworld. How could Alexander the Great be depicted as the king of the Asuras in the Sanskrit Puranas?
The Bhagavata Purana, for instance, describes the mayhem caused by the Asura invasion, calling it a cosmic cataclysm. "Then Mahabali assembled his soldiers and all the demon chiefs, who were equally strong and magnificent like him. They appeared as if they would destroy the universe and burn everything with their fierce stares."
The untold story of Alexander's Indian expedition is narrated in the Sanskrit texts in allegorical formats, mixed with myths depicting unworldly characters. They also recount how he was murdered later with a weapon known as 'the destroyer of time.'
The 2 books are available on Amazon.
The Secret War
The Puranas
www.murderofalexanderthegreat.com
• The assassin of Alexander the Great identified
For the first time ever, evidence has emerged from the ancient Sanskrit texts that the legend of Alexander the Great, who invaded India in 326 BC, forms part of the Indian folklore. Astonishing new findings in the historical narrative, "The Murder Of Alexander the Great" (in two books: the Puranas and The Secret war) by Ajith Kumar unbundle the untold parts of the history of Alexander's global conquests, which culminated in his mysterious death in Babylon 3 years later.
In 331 BC, after defeating of the Persian Emperor Darius at the bloody battle at Gaugamela, at the Arbela temple (modern Erbil in Iraq) Alexander was enthroned as the King of the World. More importantly, he was designated as the mortal representative of the great lord Azura Mazda. During the coronation ceremony, the conqueror was crowned as the King of the Assur region (Assyria in modern Iraq), where the Kings were traditionally named as an Asura, the mortal representative of the lord. Consequently, when he subsequently invaded India, in the legends in the Indian Sanskrit texts, known as the Puranas, he came to be called an Asura Raja. The Puranas were Sanskrit texts that chronicled the deeds of ancient kings. The Sanskrit word Purana literally means ancient history. In this tradition, the Vamana Purana, Bhagavata Purana, and the Skanda Purana tell us the untold story of Alexander the Great's Indian invasion.
In the Indus valley, the holy land of the Aryan tribes, Alexander successfully encountered massive opponents, monstrous floods, and treacherous warfare. Unexpectedly, he also faced an army mutiny, following which he was compelled to stop his Indian campaign and what followed were disasters that crippled the Greek army as he returned to Persia.
Deification legends were quite common in the ancient world. The fascinating myths of Alexander, widely spread through the ancient religious texts, appears in the gospels in the prophecies of Daniel. In the Hebrew traditions, he appears as a prophet who knocks at the gates of heaven. In European texts, he became an invincible knight. In the Persian legends, he appears as a two-horned Satan who destroyed the fire altars of Zoroastrian priests. Finally, in the Indian texts he is depicted as the king of the Asuras, Mahabali, who ruled the netherworlds.
The Indian Puranas apparently tell us the history of the ancient world through enchanting mythology, and one can only admire at the huge share of historical information available in the Indian scriptures. A popular myth in the Puranas recounts the history of the Greek conquest of the Indus Valley and unveils the covert Indian strategy that led to the rapid return march and the early death of Alexander.
"The Murder of Alexander the Great, Book 1 - The Puranas" draws, for the first time, a parallel between Greek and Indian history. The book presents sixteen pieces of evidence to confirm that Alexander was prominently represented in the ancient Sanskrit texts as Mahabali. In fact, when the invading army descended from the Hindukush mountains in 326 BC into the Indus Valley and occupied Taxila first, the massive army consisted of 120,000 soldiers. However, Alexander could not conquer India, as he had to abandon the attempt after a religious sacrifice on an altar in Kurukshetra (in modern Punjab), where a Sadhu named Kalanus declared the omens unfavourable to proceed. Alexander abandoned his aggressive campaigns and decided to return to return to Babylon. The Puranas link this incident in the myths of Asura Raja Mahabali and recount how the King of Asuras was tactfully deceived and guided by the Sadhu to a region known as Patala. The unearthly domains of Patala, at the mouth of the Indus, was truly the capital of Alexander the Great for about an year. He was trapped for months in the Patala region, stuck between two deserts on both sides of the Indus River, and the Arabian sea at its mouth. The Sadhu, known to the Greek historians as Kalanus (Calanus), had deceived and led him to Patala, the hell in Indian mythology.
Confirming this, a verse in the Sanskrit Puranas records the chronology of the day Alexander submitted to the oracular advice of the Sadhu on the altar in Kurukshetra in Punjab. The date coincides with the annual Onam festival which commemorates the surrender of Mahabali, the legendary role of Alexander, and thus confirms this to be a historical fact. The surrender of Mahabali (Alexander) is even today celebrated as the Onam festival in Kerala, a state in South India, on the twelfth day in the month of Shravana, which is the same day Alexander submitted to the oracular advice of the Sadhu. During the Onam festival people in Kerala commemorate the legends of Alexander the Great, who tried to conquer the three worlds, but was compelled to return to Patala.
The Indian texts tell us a stranger than fiction version of the ancient history and explains how Alexander’s invincible army, which came to conquer India in 326 BC, was crippled and its leader secretly assassinated.
In Book 2 - The Secret War, the narrative explores the ruthless execution of a secret war strategy, known as the Battle of intrigue, outlined in the Arthashastra of Chanakya. Chanakya, the renowned military strategist of ancient India, was the Prime Minister of Taxila, when Alexander occupied it in April 326 BC. The secret strategies of war prescribed in the Arthashastra of Chanakya were unleashed against the Greek war lord, which crippled the invading army, created a mutiny in its ranks, and diverted it out of India to Patala. Alexander was cunningly forced into the barrenness of the Gedrosian desert subsequently and most of the Greek soldiers perished in its treacherous landscape.
The hidden history of the age comes alive in the two books and explains how Alexander was trapped in the Indus valley for two years and why his army revolted in Punjab. Only the Arthashastra of Chanakya explains the reasons for the revolt in the Greek army and the disasters that trailed Alexander during the Indian campaign.
After his disastrous Indian expedition, on reaching Babylon, Alexander died in suspicious circumstances at the age of 33. Widespread rumors circulated in the ancient world that he was murdered. But there was no evidence until now. However, the Indian Puranas, and other ancient Sanskrit texts, unravel the name of the exotic weapon used to murder Alexander.
The narrative in 'The murder of Alexander the Great" unravels seventy-two discoveries that go on to unearth not only Alexander’s assassin but also identifies the lethal weapon named as the ‘destroyer of time’.
The suspicions surrounding the death of Alexander had remained unresolved even after two millennia. 'The Murder of Alexander the Great' provides the final answers to the greatest murder mystery of the ancient world.
Available on Amazon Books:
The Puranas
The Murder of Alexander the Great, Book 1: The Puranas.
The Secret War
The Murder of Alexander the Great, Book 2: The Secret war
https://murderofalexanderthegreat.com
In 331 BC, after defeating of the Persian Emperor Darius at the bloody battle at Gaugamela, at the Arbela temple (modern Erbil in Iraq) Alexander was enthroned as the King of the World. More importantly, he was designated as the mortal representative of the great lord Azura Mazda. During the coronation ceremony, the conqueror was crowned as the King of the Assur region (Assyria in modern Iraq), where the Kings were traditionally named as an Asura, the mortal representative of the lord. Consequently, when he subsequently invaded India, in the legends in the Indian Sanskrit texts, known as the Puranas, he came to be called an Asura Raja. The Puranas were Sanskrit texts that chronicled the deeds of ancient kings. The Sanskrit word Purana literally means ancient history. In this tradition, the Vamana Purana, Bhagavata Purana, and the Skanda Purana tell us the untold story of Alexander the Great's Indian invasion.
In the Indus valley, the holy land of the Aryan tribes, Alexander successfully encountered massive opponents, monstrous floods, and treacherous warfare. Unexpectedly, he also faced an army mutiny, following which he was compelled to stop his Indian campaign and what followed were disasters that crippled the Greek army as he returned to Persia.
Deification legends were quite common in the ancient world. The fascinating myths of Alexander, widely spread through the ancient religious texts, appears in the gospels in the prophecies of Daniel. In the Hebrew traditions, he appears as a prophet who knocks at the gates of heaven. In European texts, he became an invincible knight. In the Persian legends, he appears as a two-horned Satan who destroyed the fire altars of Zoroastrian priests. Finally, in the Indian texts he is depicted as the king of the Asuras, Mahabali, who ruled the netherworlds.
The Indian Puranas apparently tell us the history of the ancient world through enchanting mythology, and one can only admire at the huge share of historical information available in the Indian scriptures. A popular myth in the Puranas recounts the history of the Greek conquest of the Indus Valley and unveils the covert Indian strategy that led to the rapid return march and the early death of Alexander.
"The Murder of Alexander the Great, Book 1 - The Puranas" draws, for the first time, a parallel between Greek and Indian history. The book presents sixteen pieces of evidence to confirm that Alexander was prominently represented in the ancient Sanskrit texts as Mahabali. In fact, when the invading army descended from the Hindukush mountains in 326 BC into the Indus Valley and occupied Taxila first, the massive army consisted of 120,000 soldiers. However, Alexander could not conquer India, as he had to abandon the attempt after a religious sacrifice on an altar in Kurukshetra (in modern Punjab), where a Sadhu named Kalanus declared the omens unfavourable to proceed. Alexander abandoned his aggressive campaigns and decided to return to return to Babylon. The Puranas link this incident in the myths of Asura Raja Mahabali and recount how the King of Asuras was tactfully deceived and guided by the Sadhu to a region known as Patala. The unearthly domains of Patala, at the mouth of the Indus, was truly the capital of Alexander the Great for about an year. He was trapped for months in the Patala region, stuck between two deserts on both sides of the Indus River, and the Arabian sea at its mouth. The Sadhu, known to the Greek historians as Kalanus (Calanus), had deceived and led him to Patala, the hell in Indian mythology.
Confirming this, a verse in the Sanskrit Puranas records the chronology of the day Alexander submitted to the oracular advice of the Sadhu on the altar in Kurukshetra in Punjab. The date coincides with the annual Onam festival which commemorates the surrender of Mahabali, the legendary role of Alexander, and thus confirms this to be a historical fact. The surrender of Mahabali (Alexander) is even today celebrated as the Onam festival in Kerala, a state in South India, on the twelfth day in the month of Shravana, which is the same day Alexander submitted to the oracular advice of the Sadhu. During the Onam festival people in Kerala commemorate the legends of Alexander the Great, who tried to conquer the three worlds, but was compelled to return to Patala.
The Indian texts tell us a stranger than fiction version of the ancient history and explains how Alexander’s invincible army, which came to conquer India in 326 BC, was crippled and its leader secretly assassinated.
In Book 2 - The Secret War, the narrative explores the ruthless execution of a secret war strategy, known as the Battle of intrigue, outlined in the Arthashastra of Chanakya. Chanakya, the renowned military strategist of ancient India, was the Prime Minister of Taxila, when Alexander occupied it in April 326 BC. The secret strategies of war prescribed in the Arthashastra of Chanakya were unleashed against the Greek war lord, which crippled the invading army, created a mutiny in its ranks, and diverted it out of India to Patala. Alexander was cunningly forced into the barrenness of the Gedrosian desert subsequently and most of the Greek soldiers perished in its treacherous landscape.
The hidden history of the age comes alive in the two books and explains how Alexander was trapped in the Indus valley for two years and why his army revolted in Punjab. Only the Arthashastra of Chanakya explains the reasons for the revolt in the Greek army and the disasters that trailed Alexander during the Indian campaign.
After his disastrous Indian expedition, on reaching Babylon, Alexander died in suspicious circumstances at the age of 33. Widespread rumors circulated in the ancient world that he was murdered. But there was no evidence until now. However, the Indian Puranas, and other ancient Sanskrit texts, unravel the name of the exotic weapon used to murder Alexander.
The narrative in 'The murder of Alexander the Great" unravels seventy-two discoveries that go on to unearth not only Alexander’s assassin but also identifies the lethal weapon named as the ‘destroyer of time’.
The suspicions surrounding the death of Alexander had remained unresolved even after two millennia. 'The Murder of Alexander the Great' provides the final answers to the greatest murder mystery of the ancient world.
Available on Amazon Books:
The Puranas
The Murder of Alexander the Great, Book 1: The Puranas.
The Secret War
The Murder of Alexander the Great, Book 2: The Secret war
https://murderofalexanderthegreat.com
The Murder of Alexander the Great
www.murderofalexanderthegreat.com
Available on Amazon Books:
The Murder of Alexander the Great, Book 1: The Puranas.
The Murder of Alexander the Great, Book 2: The Secret war
...more
Available on Amazon Books:
The Murder of Alexander the Great, Book 1: The Puranas.
The Murder of Alexander the Great, Book 2: The Secret war
...more
