Siddarth,

Electricity went off, started back the laptop (the battery is dead) and part of what I had typed was in the comments. Just not in the appropriate reply.

Something to keep in mind, having to communicate with rural South Asia.
What one takes for granted in the West/Urban SA does not work in rural SA.

The word here in SL is machang (or macho for the English speakers). That means either you have married my sister (or suitable as a cross cousin). Machang is Tamil, Massina is Sinhala.

cheers

Thanks for the detailed recommendations, mate 🙂
Really looking forward to the unusual fruits (rambutan, mangosten, king coconuts) and seafood (my partner’s a pescatarian). Cheers!

Kalayavana is not known to me. I may know him under different name. It seems to me that all this is a part of mythology. In magic Wikipedia there is no reference when this may happened. Maybe it was something in the past what later got mythical proportions. An army of 3 million is really unbelievable and would not pass invisible in ancient history. At this time was not such strong organisation to organise this number of people and all following logistics. And what would be a goal for such enormous project, to conquer what and why. Greeks definitely cannot be organisers. They were unknown until 8th century BC and after that they had city (polis) state organisation. They never had empire which could organise large scale wars. I do not know anything about Serb participation although they were in one early period ruling in Egypt (Ramses dynasty). Assyrian kingdom ruled by Nino Belov, the leader of the first Aryan voyage to India, was the strongest in the world at this time and they had the most advanced arms (for eg. steel cavalry swords identical to modern). His empire was initially from Danube to China but later, due to enormous size and logistical reasons, was reduced only to its central part in Mesopotamia and Assyria. But, he did not fight locals (I will write about this some other time). At this time, the state organisations were very weak, without strong central authorities, without permanent armies, with bad communication, non-existent or undeveloped taxation, people lived in poor villages fighting to secure enough food to survive. It is possible that something happened around (probably later) the second Aryan invasion, i.e. after 1400 BC. This period I still haven’t well researched.

I can say that Kashmiri Hindus do eat wild swine/boar traditionally. My grand mother cooked fantastic meat balls (matsh) out of it. It is quite gamey and rather tasty.

There is definitely a caste-bias in eating pigs (which probably predates Islam).

This one too:
http://www.brownpundits.com/2018/05/13/post-modernism-in-india/

Milan one of my friends doesn’t think Kalayavana was a Serb, because Kala means dark. He thinks Kalayavana was an African (Egyptian, Sudanese, Ethiopian, Tunisian . . . not sure which) and came with a vast African army, albeit perhaps some Serbs and Europeans were part of his army.

Please read the component articles linked in this mega-article:
http://www.brownpundits.com/2018/04/27/ancient-egyptian-arya-and-greek-history-part-2/

Thanks for the link. Good article, nice map, good explanation of roots of cow worshiping. However, some things are missing. Who were these mysterious Indo-European people and Indo-European language (for several decades they called it Indo-Germanishe language although the German language was formed 3400 years after this migration)? Where and when they disappeared in history and no one noticed this? What has happened with their unnamed language, how it continued to live up to these days? Is there a modern language which have 5000 identical and very similar words with 4000 years old cow worshiping travelers’ language, who moved to the East.

Well, there is a new research task for pundits. They should answer some questions, most of them can be found even in Wikipedia.

Who led these people to India? Or maybe they came as lost sheep?
What was found in his grave in today’s Iraq just before American aggression?
What was his symbol (also found in his grave)? How he named himself?
What Bible says about him?
What is the Bacchus(ism)?
Is there any link between worshiping cows and previous question?
How Baghdad got its name? So as Babylon?
Etc, etc…

The whole point of the RSS is to consolidate “Hinduism” and especially to bring Dalits into the Hindutva fold.

Great point about the consolidation of hinduism. I’ve seen a lot of people complain about the arabization of muslims in our parts, sartorially and otherwise. No one raises an eyebrow about similar changes in customs of hindus.