We all
know that Bamar-asa-Tagaung Ka ( Burmese begins with Abhiraj of Tagaung). But
what we did not know was the ancient people of modern Burma was the Pyu or Pru
or Tritsu until we read Moore Places of Burma (Moor : ). The Tritsu belongs to the Sindhu (Indu)
Valley civilization of the modern India since the time of the Sarasvati and
Purushani rivers flowing into Sindu and the Arabian Sea.
When the
mist of antiquity gives place to the light of history, we find the Bharatas,
who gave their name to the whole country, settled here. Tradition connects the
Bharatas with Bharata, son of Dushyanta and Shakuntala, the subjects of many
fables and romances. In the period of the Rigveda; the Bharatas are said to be
kindling the sacred fire in the region of the Sarasvati (Ghaggar) and
Drishadvati (Chitang). In the April hymns Sarasvati is mentioned with Bharati
or the glory of the Bharatas. In course of time the Tritsu clan of the Bharatas
became paramount and produced the famous conquerors Divodasa and his son Sudas
whose exploits are sung in many a hymn of the Rigveda. (Buddha Prakash)
The Pyu
or Tritsu of Burma named one river flowing from , The Yamethin The mountain
hamlet, the middle of the country and throws into bay of mataban near
Tha-htone or Sathorn (formerly called Suvana-Buhmi) or Sathorn , “CHITANG” . But now the
river is known only as Sittaung River in modern lower Burma. { We
will introduce the Suvana-Buhmi, the city of Mon kingdom in lower Burma, soon.}
According
to Buddha Prakash, The Trisu belongs to Bharata(Hindustan so called India).
Wikipedia reported as “One scholar,
Buddha Prakash, Professor of History and of Ancient Indian History, Culture and
Archaeology, Director of the Institute of Indic Studies (1964); in his book
Political and Social Movement in Ancient Punjab, states:
The Purus settled between the Asikni and
the Parusni, whence they launched their onslaught on the Bharatas, and after
the initial rebuff in the Dasarajna War, soon regrouped and resumed their march
on the Yamuna and the Sarasvati and subsequently merged with the Bharatas, Some
of their off-shoots lingered on in the Punjab and one of their scions played a
notable part in the events of the time at Alexander's invitation. They probably
survived in the Punjab under the name of Puri, which is a sub-caste of the
Kshatriyas.[6]Refer to Bob Hudson the ancient Pyu city, Halin was dated back to 4,500 years ago. He mentioned as below.(ref: Hudson 2012: A thousand years before Bagan: radiocarbon dates and Myanmar’s ancient Pyu cities.)
An earthenware firing site southwest of the old city walls
and salt fields at Halin (Figures 1 &12) is one of a group of mounds of
potsherds and ash. Full publication is forthcoming (“Earthenware from a firing
site in Myanmar dates to more than 4,500 years ago”, Bob Hudson & Nyein
Lwin).
Two more dates for
pre-urban Halin, at site HL 30 (Figure 12), show a habitation site built
over a Neolithic cemetery. Sample OZM354, 2660 ± 30 BP, for the lower part of a
habitation site which has iron artifacts in its upper layers, calibrates to
900-790 BCE. We should note that the iron objects were a metre above the dated
section of the site, and while the stratigraphy shows continuous occupation
from 900-790 BCE until the iron was deposited, the carbon date and the iron
represent separate instances. Sample OZM353, 2935 ± 30 BP, puts the Neolithic
cemetery below the village at 1270-1040 BCE. There is a layer of soil above the
cemetery, indicating that the village was established after the cemetery fell
into disuse. These dates provide further evidence that human activity and
occupation at Halin preceded the urban period.Therefore we can conclude that the Tritsu or Pru or Pyu are living in the place called Bramah-desh or modern Burma since 1000 to 1500 BC. Now we have to look into the contemporary history of India to correlate the archeological findings of the great archeologists of present days and the records of ancient Vedic and Epic India. Then we may like to refer the following from RC Dutt’s “The Civilization of India”; Page -15 CHAPTER II Epic Age, circa 1400 to 800 B.C. as follow
Colonisation
of the Gangetic valley.In the earliest period of Indian history, which we have called the Vedic Age,
we found the Indo-Aryan or Hindus settled on the Indus and its tributaries, and
the whole of the Punjab parceled out into small states or principalities ruled
by war-like chiefs. All the races spoke the same language, practiced the same
religious rites, and worshipped the same “bright gods” of Nature, and were thus
held together by strong national ties which served to make them, in spite of
their occasional wars, one great confederation of races.
A map of North India in the late Vedic period. (Courtesy of
Wikipedia.)
But the Punjab Hindus were not long
content with their dominion over the land of the seven rivers. Like all young and warlike races, they threw
out colonies farther and farther to the east, until the valley of the Ganges,
embracing the whole of Northern India, was colonized. And thus in the second period of Indian
history, which we shall call the Epic Age, we find the whole of the fertile
country from the Jumna to North Behar occupied by Hindu colonists, excelling
their mother-country, the Punjab, in wealth and power, in learning, arts, and
civilization.
In comparison of the history of Burma
and that of India contemporaneously we find the fact that the peoples living
there both in Burma and India are the same. Can we conclude modern Burma was
part of India, Bhrata or Sindhu (Indu)
valley civilization?As the ancient Tritsu has the technology, especially metallurgy so called Alchemic, ancient blacksmiths and may have foundries. So that they , the Tritsu or Pru or Pyu can cast the bronze artifact facilitated by the place where they live “Tagaung and Halin was very close to copper deposit of kyee-ni-taung, Sa-gaing division of modern Burma (Baramah-desh).
The
tritsu in Burma were living in all over the country. (Refer E. Moore )
Tagaung is a triple-walled site on the east bank of
the Ayeyarwaddy that chronicles
place seven hundred years before the birth of the
Buddha Gotama (circa 1300 BC).
Evidence of probable Neolithic and Bronze Age
habitation has been documented from
surface finds including a range of stone tools and
socketed bronze implements up to
18 cm in
length from the village of Kyan Hnyat, 30 km south of Tagaung. (Moore :
Silver tanka of the Pyu kings(Courtesy of the
British Museum)
Indian symbolism reaches Burma
In the eighth century, eastern Burma
was ruled by the Pyu peoples, who issued coins with designs derived from those
of the kingdom of Arakan to the west. On this example, the obverse (front) of
the coin shows a throne tied with royal diadems in the centre and surmounted by
flames.
The reverse shows symbols associated
with Indian deities and the more ancient Indian Creation myth. The dominant
image is the symbol of shrivatsa, representing Shri, the goddess of wealth
and good fortune. Inside this symbol is a mountain, representing Shiva, the god
of contrasting forces (good and evil; fertility and asceticism). The mountain
also represents the earth, rising out of the wavy lines of the ocean below.
Above them, the moon (a circle) and sun (a star shape) signify the heavens. On
the left is a thunderbolt, emblem of Indra, god of the heavens, and on the
right, the conch shell associated with Vishnu, god of creation and preserver of
the cosmic system.
From Moore, Elezabeth
To the north and northwest of Tagaung is copper,
gold-rich river sand and iron along the Meza and
jade mines along the Uru.5 Along the Ayeyarwaddy,
gold-washing was common in recent years, with
silver mines to the east at Bawdwin and
Yadanatheingyi at Namtu around Mogok, and copper and
more gold found along the edge of the Shan Plateau.6 These resources bolstered the
trading advantages of
the walled site’s riverside location. East of the
walled area, varied ecozones support crops ranging from
edible oils to rice and coriander (see Fig. 2).
Winter rice or mayin is grown on the edges of shallow
pools on the shelf between the Ayeyarwaddy and Indaing forest
on Thaung Hwet Taung, a range
southeast
of Tagaung.
Then
modern Burman casted the very famous,
world no 1 bronze bell see
These above mentioned were possible due to the
rich resources such as copper, silver, gold, iron and mineral deposits around
the Tagaung and Halin region, the technology such as metallurgy and foundries
and
human resources, craftsmen and blacksmiths and ultimately the good governess,
administration and management of the Burmese kingdom.
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