FATHER,
Don aile ek hui gele.
Don't tell me you are involved in so many activities that you forgot to count
now.
Have a nice sunday.
Regards,
Nancy
Still busy.
-Original Message-From: Nascimen
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 9:54
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Communidade de Saligao-II
The Communidade de Saligao-II
We are still writing on the
background relating to our Communidades. We said that the Goan population
descended from 4 races. Yesterday we
dealt on the three races the Negritos, Proto-Australoids and the
Dravidians. Today we are dealing with yet another race called the 'Aryans'.
This race probably is more close to Sallganvkars( Saugaunkars, or Salgaokars, Saligaokars).
' The Aryans , the last to
arrive around 2500 BC and the most martial of our races, subdued the others.
They originated possibly from the banks of the Dnieper in what is today
Russia. On arrival in India they added a fourth class to their social
structure of three classes-Brahmin, Kshatriya and Vaishya---that of Sudras.
This became the caste system of India. Jose Pereira who is a student of
Sanskrit and whose work includes a scholarly treatise on the Konkani language,
write lucidly in " Song of Goa" about Sanskrit, the language of the Aryans
'...phenomenally rich in words and shades of meaning...the preeminent cultural
speech of the subcontinent through most of its history, and the vehicle of its
greatest literary and theological _expression_.'
'The history of ancient Goa is
that of contests for power: a succession of dynasties warred among themselves.
The loser carried on administration as a feudatory. The Satavahana dynasty
ruled in the Deccan around 2nd century BC and annexed Konkan,
including the territory held by the Bhojas in Goa. However, they intermarried,
leaving the Bhojas free to administer their lands as feudatories. The
Satavahanas escorted foreign ships to Broach. Coins found at Chandrapur,
modern Chandor in the taluka of Salcete, suggest the ancient commercial glory
of this city of the Bhojas. With the fall of the Satavahanas in the
4th century AD sea borne trade diminished . It was restored by the Badami Chalukyas during
the 7th century.
The Aryanization of Goa began
under the Mauryas. The Girnar rock edicts of Ashoka refer to a people known as
Pettnikas, Rashtrikas and Bhojas who had settled down in the semi-independent
kingdoms on the southern boarder of the Mauryan Empire in Deccan and the
Konkan coast. According to Puranic tradition, the Bhojas belonged to the
subdivision of Yadavas of the Aryan race of Kaikeyas in the 3rd
century BC during Ashoka's reign. In post-Vedic Sanskrit literature they
figure as a clan of rulers. Although originally governed by the tribal
constitution in which authority was vested in the chosen representatives,
these selected leaders appear to have eventually become hereditary rulers.
The thirteenth edict reveals
that these peoples observed Ashokan instructions on morality. The earliest
known record of a Bhoja ruler in Goa, King Devraj, was found in South Goa at
Siroda. Issued from Chandrapur, this plate dates back to the 3rd
and 4th century AD. Written in the Southern Brahmi, it has the
royal emblem of the elephant. It records the grant of tolls to two Brahmins,
Govindswami and Indraswami, of Bhardwaj 'gotra', along with a house and some
pasture land for cows. The Bhoja rulers of Chandrapur appear to have
controlled the area on the west coast beyond Goa. Records of grants by Bhoja
kings have been found in the Ponda taluka and in the areas of the Konkan
further north and south of Goa '( 2). to be continued
Compiled by Fr. Nascimento
Mascarenhas.
Vasco da Gama
04-07-2004.
