History, asked by chahaht, 7 months ago

why india is called Hindusthan

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Answered by sumitharamesh17

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the Persian Hindustan and the Latin India are both derived from the old Persian for Sindhu , the name for the Indus river in ancient sanskrit. thus "Hindustan" is the land beyond Indus' .

Answered by saniachoudhury48

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Hindustan is derived from the Persian word Hindu cognate with the sanskrit Hindu. The proto Iranian sounds change*s occurred between 850-600BCE , according to asko parpola . Hence the rigvedic sapta Sindhava(the land of seven rivers ) became hapta Hindu in the avesta.

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