Question

Different names by which india has been known in medieval period

Answer 1

1)The ancient name of India was Aja Nabha Varsha.

(Aja means Brahma. Nabha means navel or central portion.

Varsha means nation/country.)

2)Bharata (Bha means light and knowledge. Rata means

devoted to light as against darkness.) The whole country

was highly enlightened spiritually.

According to another source, the name Bharat for India

is derived from king Bharat, the son of Shakuntala, wife

of king Dushyanta.

3)People who lived on the bank of river Indus were

called originally as Indu and later as Hinduand the

land came to be called as Hindusthan.

4)The name India was given by the British.

5)Aryavarta is another name which refers to India.

The Aryans who entered the country,

ruled it, and settled here.Aryan means good and noble.

The natives who were non-Aryans were called as Dasyus.

6)Jambu Dweepa ( the shape of India resembles jamun fruit)

is the vedic name of India.

7)”Tianzhu”(=spiritual centre) was the Chinese name during

Tang Dynasty for ancient India. This was because of the Indian

origin of Buddhism.

8)Before the British and Muslims came to India, our Bharat Varsha

was a land of plenty and was nicknamed as ”Sone ki Chidiya”

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