People,
I have been reading the Mahabharata lately, which contains The Bhagavad Gita in it, and I came across this comment in the historical narration.
It occurs in the sixth volume, page 113, as Arjuna is battling the soldiers of King Jayadratha, specifically because he wanted to get to Jayadratha, specifically in order to chop his head off by sundown. (He got the job done!)
The comment is as follows: There were many mlecchas on the backs of elephants, hideous in form. "
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"There were mlecchas with heads partly or completely shaved. Some had matted hair. Ohters were filthy in conduct, having malicious faces. ... Hundreds of those who lived in congregations were pierced by arrows. Those who lived in mountainous caver were frightened in that battle and fled."
This suggests that monks, such as Budhist monks, were living in caven worlds below, as depicted in the movie The Lost Horizon, and that they came up to the surface in order to fight against Arjuna and Vishnu/Krishna.
Cheers!
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People,
Just to clear a couple of things up. From my reading, I understand that untouchable mlecchas lived in the Himalayan underground.
And that communities of monks did, too. And that this reminds me of the movie The Lost Horizon. If on the surface we have communities of all kinds of wild creatures and different types of humans, so why couldn´t this be the case below.
I always thought it was unusual that Buddhism became so influential less than a thousadnd years after the Kaliyuga started and after the cloud mantle fell.
Now I know. The monks were there even before the Kaliyuga began, and they just had to come topside.
Cheers!
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I think that these outcaste tribes from the Himalayan undeerground must have come up to the surface within a few hundred years after the Bhagavad Gita war , once the Kaliyuga was getting into gear, and that they are mixed in with the populations of Central Asia, at least the part close to the mountains.
@deandddd , flashback to the year 2001...remember the caves of Tora Bora in Aghanistan where Osama Bin Laden and his followers were hiding ?
Even Bunker buster bombs could not penetrate these deep caves on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border .
That is the area which the Mahabharat was referring to , when it referred to Mlecchas (outsiders/foreigners) living in Mountainous Cavern Worlds .
Regards
Amazing!
So they weren't the monks.
There must be much more down there, there must be a permanent population that is very tall with a long life span, and tremendous memories. Because they live in a place sheltered from the harmful rays of the Sun.
I have heard of American soldiers fighting giant creatures in Afghanistan.
Cheers!
Sidhartha,
So these mlechas mentioned in the Mahabharata must be Pathans/Pashtuns, from Eastern Afghanistan and Northwestern Pakistan.
They ruled northern India during the early 1500s, right? I know they made it over to Bengal.
About half of Alexander's Greek army had stayed behind in the present day Afghanistan-Pakistan region to control the Greek empire . They never left - just mingled into the local population .
From a DNA standpoint , Greeks in present day Greece are largely migrants from other places who got there much later . The prime of the Hellenistic Greeks , their best young men , had stayed back in South Asia , so anybody looking for those authentic ancient Greek bloodlines should actually search in the Af-Pak region , rather than in present day Greece ! It's a supreme irony , but any which you look at it , that's the truth :))
Regards
