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Part 1  
Introduction  
Chapter 1 The origin of Indian history, and the Upnishads and Puranas.
Chapter 2 History of the origin and the development of the languages of the world;
and the origin and the development of Greek, Roman and western religions and civilizations from 4th millennium BC to 20th century AD.
Chapter 3 The eternity of the Sanskrit language; the diplomatic schemes of the British during the 18th, 19th and the 20th century to destroy the culture, religion and the history of Bharatvarsh; and its effects on Hindu writers.
Chapter 4 The words of Krishn Himself; evaluation of the most popular theories of
the world; continuity of Bhartiya civilization for 1,900 million years;
and the general chronology of Bharatvarsh of 155.52 trillion years.
   
Part 2  
Chapter 1 Twelve phase creation of the universe and the history of our brahmand
as described in the Bhagwatam.
Chapter 2 The references and the events described in the Puranas and the Upnishads relate to the entire brahmand, and not only the earth planet.
Chapter 3 The theme of all of the prime scriptures that form the body of Sanatan Dharm and the Divine personalities of 5,000 years.
Chapter 4 Sanatan Dharm is the universal religion of the Upnishads, Gita and
the Bhagwatam which Bharatvarsh has introduced for the whole world.
   
Appendices  
Shree Swamiji’s message....................................................................... 685
Abbreviations and Scriptural Bibliography..................................................... 686
Transliteration of the Hindi words............................................................. 688
Glossary........................................................................................... 689
Appendix I - Philosophy of God realization in Hindi language (songs)..................... 707
Appendix II - VII.................................................................................. 717
Index 1 (Bhartiya)................................................................................ 763
Index 2 (Western)................................................................................ 777
The world religion, interfaith, and world peace.............................................. 787
ISDL Information................................................................................. 789
Books and Tapes................................................................................. 793

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Part 1 - Chapter 1                                                                                     contents 

The origin of Indian history, and the Upnishads and Puranas......................... 51
(1) The Divineness of Bhartiya history and the definition of Bharatvarsh.......... 51
(2) The unbroken continuity of Indian civilization and its history................... 52
  Definite principles of the functioning of this world and common nature of the human beings.............................................................................. 53
  It is God Himself Who reveals all the related knowledge for the good of the souls through His eternal Saints on the land of Bharatvarsh because the Divine subject is beyond human intellect. Incapability of the material science..................... 54
  A brief history of creation, and the Puranas........................................... 55
  Bhartiya civilization after the destruction of the Mahabharat war, and the Harappan culture.......................................................................... 56
(3) How do the stories of the Puranas maintain their eternity?...................... 59
  The Puranas and the affiliated descriptions........................................... 60
  (a) The main body of the Puranas and the eternal Sages and Saints............... 60
  (b) Variations and the timely descriptions of the Puranas........................... 63
  Secret of Sages and Rishis taking rebirth and their longevity....................... 64
  The eternity of the holy rivers and places, and the peculiarity of certain Divine forms of God............................................................................... 66
(4) Revelation of the Vedas, Upnishads and the Sanskrit grammar.................. 68
  Perfect vegetarianism in the Vedas and Vedic yagyas................................ 70
  The personality of Ved Vyas and the scriptures relating to the history, religion and the path to God....................................................................... 72
  The written form of the scriptures...................................................... 73
  History, religion and the path to God................................................... 74
(5) Evidences of their Divine authenticity, and the characteristics of the myths of the world............................................................................... 74
  Evidences of the Divine authenticity of Bhartiya scriptures.......................... 74
  Divine writings cannot be analyzed in a material way................................. 76
  Myths of the world and their characteristics........................................... 77
  The source of mythological imaginations............................................... 78
(6) General theme of the Upnishads....................................................... 81
  The 33 celestial gods...................................................................... 81
  General definitions of soul, maya and God............................................. 81
  Divine forms of God, and Their abodes................................................. 82
  Illusive nature of the world............................................................... 83
  Correct understanding of the ‘self’ and ‘soul’......................................... 83
  The terms atma and brahm in the Upnishads.......................................... 84
  A fallacy about Upnishadic philosophy................................................... 86
  Another fallacy relates to the period of their availability in the world and their Divine authenticity........................................................................ 87
(7) A glimpse of the perfection of the Sanskrit grammar.............................. 89
  The Sanskrit grammar and the formation of Sanskrit words and phrases.......... 89
  The Divineness of Sanskrit language.................................................... 92

Part 1 - Chapter 2                                                                                     contents 

History of the origin and the development of the languages of the world;
and the origin and the development of Greek, Roman and western religions
and civilizations from 4th millennium BC to 20th century AD..........................		 95
(1) Early civilizations and the development of writing systems in the world....... 95
  The origin of primitive writing systems................................................. 95
  Sumerians and the first writing system in the world................................... 95
  The hieroglyphics, and the language and religion of ancient Egypt.................. 96
  Sumerians and Babylonians............................................................... 97
  (Diagram showing an example of Sumerian writing systems)......................... 97
  (Diagram showing an example of Egyptian writing systems).......................... 97
  Egyptian language and Egyptian gods.................................................... 100
  The Assyrians............................................................................... 100
  The Semites................................................................................ 101
  The origin of alphabets and the languages of the world............................ 102
    The origin of alphabets.................................................................. 103
    Phoenician and Greek alphabets and languages...................................... 103
    Descendants of Greek alphabet........................................................ 105
    (Diagram of early alphabets, Phoenician to early Latin)............................. 106
    (Diagram of Square (Modern) Hebrew alphabet)..................................... 107
    (Diagram of Modern Greek alphabet).................................................. 107
    Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic and Persian alphabets and languages.................... 108
    Avesta and Pahlavi....................................................................... 111
(2) History of Greek civilization, language and religion................................ 113
  Early civilization............................................................................ 113
  The development of Greek language.................................................... 114
  Dialects and the Modern Greek........................................................... 115
  Culture, literature and the religion of Greece.......................................... 116
  The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer.................................................... 117
  The origin of Homer’s mythological imaginations and the customs of Greece..... 118
  Gods and goddesses of Greece........................................................... 119
  The prime gods and goddesses of Greek mythology................................... 120
  The sacrificial rites........................................................................ 122
(3) History of Roman civilization, language and religion............................... 125
  The development of Latin language and Romance languages........................ 125
  Classical and Vulgar Latin................................................................. 126
  Ancient Rome and a brief history of the Roman Empire............................ 127
  Culture, literature and the religion of the Romans.................................. 130
    Culture and life........................................................................... 130
    Bloody recreations........................................................................ 130
    Feasts...................................................................................... 130
    Early mythologies and the writings like the Aeneid and the Theogony etc......... 131
    Romulus and Remus...................................................................... 132
    The beginning of the mythologies...................................................... 135
    Roman gods and goddesses............................................................. 135
    Rites and sacrifices...................................................................... 137
    Roman religion from the 1st century AD to the 4th century AD..................... 137
  The prime origin and the concepts of the words ‘god/God’ and ‘messiah’ and the true definition of God............................................................... 143
    God......................................................................................... 143
    The true definition of God............................................................... 146
(4) A comprehensive view of the religions of the Greeks and the Romans,
and the true form of the supreme God...............................................		 151
  A comprehensive view of the chief god of Greeks, Romans, and the God of
the New and Old Testaments.............................................................		 151
  Various concepts of God in the West.................................................... 152
  Reconciliation............................................................................... 153
  Spiritual merits of the transcendental experiences of the pious religious people of the West................................................................................. 154
  A brief history of the religious movements in Europe................................. 156
  ‘Indulgences’ and the Reformation...................................................... 160
  How does the western concept of God compare with the celestial gods that are described in Bhartiya scriptures.................................................. 165
    The material and celestial dimensions, and the Divine dimensions of
  the supreme God (Diagram p. 164).....................................................		 165
    Comparisons of the western concept of God with the celestial gods of
  our scriptures.............................................................................		 166
    The philosophical illusion of western religions........................................ 169
    The universal Divine religion of Bharatvarsh.......................................... 170
    Purity of the heart and non-vegetarianism............................................ 172
    What are the intuitions?................................................................. 173
(5) History, language and the civilization of the British Isles and the
Germanic languages......................................................................		 175
  The Germanic languages................................................................. 175
    East Germanic............................................................................ 176
    North Germanic........................................................................... 176
    West Germanic........................................................................... 176
    German.................................................................................... 177
    The Proto-Germanic language; Grimm, Bopp and Vernerv........................... 179
    The speculation of Proto-Indo-European language and Sanskrit morphology...... 182
  The development of the English language............................................ 184
    Old English (9th and 10th century)..................................................... 185
    Middle English (11th to 14th century).................................................. 186
    Chaos of the 13th century............................................................... 187
    Early Modern English (1500 to 1660)................................................... 188
    Borrowings................................................................................ 188
    Inflections modified...................................................................... 189
    Modern English (1660 onward).......................................................... 190
    Morphology and the vocabulary of Modern English.................................... 192
    The latest form of the most advanced English language............................. 192
  The literature.............................................................................. 184
    Brief descriptions of the notable masterpieces of the literature of England,
  and the story of Dionysian worship by the Greeks and the Romans................		 192
  Early conquests and the religions of the British Isles............................... 200
    Early invaders............................................................................. 201
    Early religion of the British Isles........................................................ 202
    Rites and sacrifices of the Celts........................................................ 202
    Rites and mythology of the Germanic people.......................................... 203
  A general survey of the history of England........................................... 204
    Early history............................................................................... 204
    Hundred Years’ War between England and France.................................... 205
    Thirty years’ war between the two English families (1455-1485)................... 207
    Church of England becomes predominant............................................. 209
    The Long Parliament..................................................................... 210
    The Great Fire of London............................................................... 211
    The American Revolution or the Revolutionary War in America.................... 212
    Boston Tea Party and the Declaration of Independence.............................. 213
    East India (merchants trading) Company.............................................. 215
    The rise of the British Empire.......................................................... 216
    The Opium War (1839-1842)............................................................ 217
    The British Rule in India................................................................. 217
    The Great Depression of 1929.......................................................... 219
    Ireland..................................................................................... 219
    World War II.............................................................................. 220
    Britain after 1945........................................................................ 222

Part 1 - Chapter 3                                                                                     contents 

The eternity of the Sanskrit language; the diplomatic schemes of the British during the 18th, 19th and the 20th century to destroy the culture, religion and the history of Bharatvarsh; and its effects on Hindu writers............................ 223
(1) The eternal perfection of the Sanskrit language
which is the mother language of the world...........................................		 223
  Diagram 1 - Comparison of Greek, Latin, German and English languages.......... 224
  Diagram 2 - Major languages of the European family.................................. 229
  Diagram 3 - Languages of the world..................................................... 230
  Diagram 4 - Writing systems of the world............................................... 231
  A comparative view of Sanskrit and the other languages of the world............... 232
  Languages of the world.................................................................... 232
  Sanskrit language. How it became the origin of the languages of the world........ 232
  The six unmatched features of the Sanskrit language.............................. 234
    (1) The vowel-consonant pronunciation of the alphabet............................. 234
    (2) Formation of the Sanskrit words................................................... 235
    (3) The uniqueness of the grammar.................................................... 235
    (4) The three kinds of prime Sanskrit scriptures (Vedas, Upnishads
  and the Puranas) and their style of literary presentation............................		 235
    (5) The apbhransh........................................................................ 237
    Pali and Hindi language.................................................................. 239
    (6) Sanskrit, the scriptural language up till today..................................... 240
(2) Organized efforts to destroy our culture and religion,
and to mutilate our history..............................................................		 245
  Evidence of their malicious intentions (to produce fabricated Sanskrit scriptures)................................................................................... 245
  First effort of Jones (1784)............................................................... 246
  Their secret planning...................................................................... 249
  A brief review of how was it executed................................................... 250
  Two more attempts of Jones to destroy the Divinity of Sanskrit language and to mutilate Bhartiya history.................................................................. 252
  The statements of Jones and the fiction of Sandracottus............................. 252
  The non-credibility of the statements of Megasthenes................................ 258
  Constructing a detailed scheme of operation (by the British)..................... 260
    Planning of the scheme.................................................................. 260
    Execution of the plan..................................................................... 261
    (1) Mutilation of our history and religion.............................................. 261
    (2) Procuration, mutilation and destruction of Sanskrit manuscripts............... 263
    The history books were destroyed...................................................... 264
    Some more instances of the past when Bhartiya religious books were destroyed 265
    The fiction of Aryan invasion, introduction of English language,
  and the suppression of Sanskrit language.............................................		 266
    Max Müller. A paid employee, who translated the Rigved in a demeaning style.   The hidden secrets of his life........................................................... 268
    Letters of Max Müller..................................................................... 269
    Pandit Taranath of Calcutta............................................................. 272
    The psychological facts................................................................... 276
    Major falsehoods as promoted by the British.......................................... 279
(3) Demeaning the history and the religion of India; misguiding the whole world; and destroying and fabricating the historic records................................ 281
  Asiatic Researches group of people.................................................... 283
    H.H. Wilson, J.D. Peterson, and F. Wilford........................................... 283
    Translation of Vishnu Puran by H.H. Wilson (1786-1860)............................ 284
    Max Müller (1823-1900).................................................................. 288
    F. E. Pargiter (1852-1927)............................................................... 294
    "Ancient Indian Historical Tradition"................................................... 294
    "The Purana Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age".................................. 295
    Vincent A. Smith (1848-1920)........................................................... 297
  A brief history of the European orientalists.......................................... 302
    (1) Sir William Jones (1746-1794) and the Asiatic Societies of Calcutta
  and London................................................................................
 302
    (2) Sir Charles Wilkins (1749-1836).................................................... 304
    (3) Colonel Colin MacKenzie (1753-1821).............................................. 304
    (4) Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765-1837)............................................ 304
    (5) August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767-1845).............................................. 305
    (6) Horace Hayman Wilson (1786-1860)............................................... 305
    (7) Franz Bopp (1791-1867).............................................................. 305
    (8) Eugene Burnouf (1801-1852)........................................................ 305
    (9) Theodor Benfy (1809-1881).......................................................... 306
    (10) Sir Alexander Cunningham (1814-1893).......................................... 306
    (11) Robert Caldwell (1815-1891)....................................................... 306
    (12) Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1819-1899)......................................... 306
    (13) Theodore Goldstucker (1821-1872)............................................... 306
    (14) Rudolf Roth (1821-1893)........................................................... 307
    (15) Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900)................................................. 307
    (16) Albrecht Friedrich Weber (1825-1901)............................................ 307
    (17) Edward Byles Cowell (1826-1903).................................................. 307
    (18) William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894)............................................. 308
    (19) Johan Georg Buhler (1837-1898).................................................. 308
    (20) Vincent Smith (1848-1920)......................................................... 308
    (21) Hermann Georg Jacobi (1850-1937).............................................. 309