Why do we need to know history and our ancestors?
There will be many answers but I would like to borrow from D. R. Bhandarkar
from his lecture on “Some Aspects of Ancient Indian Culture” as below:-
But
a great historian from one of these continents has truly said that “the greater
part of the social and intellectual structure of a nation is bequeathed to it
by former generations, that unconscious tradition is perhaps the most potent
agent in historical life, that the margin of change is surprisingly small and
progressive nations quite exceptional.”
D.
R. Bhandarkar
The Map of the Golden Land (Burma
or Bramah-desh or Bramah-desa or Bramah De-tha)
(Map: Courtesy of Wikipedia)
The
Ancient Tribes of Burma
The
ancient tribes of Burma according to the Mrasayti (Mya-say-tee);the Rosetta
Stone at Pagan ;inscriptions of the Indian prince Raj Kumara (Raja Kumar), the
son of King Kyansittha (Sri Buvanaditya Dhamma-Raja) and the Queen Thanbula (Tri-lawka-Vusundaradevi),
the niece of the Indian monk Mahtee.
1)
Pyu
or Pru or Tircul or Tritsu
2)
Mon
3)
Myanmar
or Maramma
4)
Sak
(Thet) or Sakyan or Indo-Scythians
The Pyu
The so
called Pyu or Pru are believe to be Tircul or Tarvasu, a tribe who participated
in the Battle of Ten Kings (Dasrajana) on the bank of river Iravati or river
Ravi or Purushni in the region of Sindhu (Indus) Punjab, modern Pakistan.
Macdonell and Keith write that
“the name [Parushni] is certainly that of the river later called Ravi
(Iravati)”
In fact
the Pyu or Pru or Puru or Tircul (Tritsu) are one of the tribes of the Sindu
valley or Hindu Civilization..
If we dig deeper ,then King
Yayati divided up his kingdom into five quarters (VP IV.10.1708). To Turvasha
he gave the southeast (Bay of Bengal); to Druhya the west Gandhara; to Yadu the
south (By Arabian sea); to Anu the north Punjab; and to Puru the center
(Sarswati region) as the supreme king of Earth.(ref…)
They are
the first wave of the people came in to the place which is called modern Burma,
later.
They
named the rivers in the country as Iravati (Irrawaddy or Ayerwadi it is
presently known) and Sarsvati (Thalawadi or Chindwin as it is called now).
These the old names of the rivers which flowed in northern,Punjab, Sindhu and
modern Pakistan. As these people came from the place where they had these
rivers, again they gave these names to the new rivers they found in their new
habitats, modern Burma. These settlers may include the Tritsu or Tircul and
Puru or Pru or Pyu and among others.
Dougald
J. W. O’Reilly mentioned, ‘”pagan, with the hundreds of crumbling bricks
stupasscatter over the landscape, among the most famous cultural sites of
Southeast Asia. Less well known are the Great Cities of Pyu, or Tircul as they
likely called themselves. (Reference: “Early Civilizations of
Southeast Asia By
Dougald J. W. O'Reilly”).
The cities mentioned here are certainly Vishnu and Sri keshtra of ancient Pyu or Pru
Kingdoms of modern Burma.
The name
of Irrawaddy certainly came from the ancient Indian people called Tritsu of the
Sindu Valley (Modern Puanjab) and the original name was Iravati or Purushani or
Parushani.
{Author’s special note to Maung Sein Win –Pa-dee-gone, Joo and Or-pee-kyel,
please explore more in Burma for educational and national purposes.}
It is also verified by Donald Alexander
Mackenzie in his famous Book “Indian Myth and Legend” as below.
The Bharatas, and their priestly
aristocracy of Tritsus,(probably
Taw Seng Ko referred them as Tirtcul) the Vasisthas, appear to have joined
the Kuru-Panchala confederacy about the time that the Brahmanas were being
composed, and these were probably influenced by the ritualistic practices of
the Vaisishthas. There are references of
Agni of the Bharatas, and a goddess Bharati is mentioned in connection with the
Saraswati river.
It is
probable that as the Turavasha or Tritsus or Tircul joined Kuru-Panchala
alliance and fought the Puru and lost the battle they retired away from the
Punjab, Sindhu. Then they found the place habitable for their living as there
are clean water (the new rivers Iravati and Sarsvati) around Bamo, Mong-ywar
and Shwebo in modern Burma.
Mackenzie
also mentioned as “It appears highly
probable that the Bharatas and the Kuru-Panchalas represent late invasions of
peoples who displaced the earlier Aryan settlers in Hindustan. Among the
enemies of the invaders were the Kasis, a tribe which became associated with
Benares.”
The
Kasis are the people living in Assam and Manipur (Benares) in north-western
part of modern Burma and in times in the past the two provinces are vassel of
Burman Emparer such as Anurudder, Kyansittha, Baringnaung and Alongpaya U Aung
Jaya (Zay-ya).
Also
refer DR Bhandarkar as follow
Suda,
he was of course the hero of the dasa-rajna or ‘battle of Ten Kings’ fought on
the Parushni, where there were Arya and Dasa allies on both the sides. But he
was also the grandson of Divodasa Atithigva.
And Hillebrandt seems to be right in interpreting the name as the
‘heavenly Dasa’ and conjecturing that he was himself a Dasa. In Rig-Veda VI. 61.1 & ff., Divodasa is
said to have fought against the Panis, Paravatas and Brishaya, and we have
already pointed out with what tribes of Arachosia Hillebrandt identifies
them. Nay, the Sarasvati where the
battle was fought is also identified by him with the Haraqaiti of
Arachosia. But in the time of his
grandson Sudas, we have also seen, the Dasa-rajna battle came off on the
Parushni or Ravi (or Iravati) in the
Panjab. It appears that the kingdom of the Tritsu family of the Bharata tribe to
which these kings pertained extended from Arachosia to the Panjab as was the case in later times with the
Achaemenian family to which Darius the Great belonged.
Refer the following map; Courtesy of A. V. Sankaran.
{Author’s
note: After the scienctific analysis of
the dried up of river Sarsvati (or Saraswati) the cause of it was found as
geotechnical activities rather than human influences such as the battle of Ten
kings. But it is not the scope of this work.}
Probably
they, Puru, Pru or Pyu or Tavasha or Tircul are Kushans or Kushanas who are new
comer to the region modern Pakistan later
establish the city Purusha of Kushan kingdom or Kushan Dynastry.
Refer
Dougald O’reilli, “According to Tsin dynasty (265 – 420 CE) Chinese text Tircul
were akready establish at Pyay (Prome) modern day lower Burma”
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