Hajarimalmuni Smruti Granth

Author(s): Shobhachad Bharilla
Publisher: Hajarimalmuni Smruti Granth Prakashan Samiti Byavar

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२४ : मुनि श्री हजारीमल : स्मृति ग्रन्थ
a snake, a descendant of Imos, of the line of Chan, of the race of Chivim. 'Chan' signifies snake. Chivim refers to Tripoli, and that is same as Hivim or Givim, the Pheonician word for snake, which again refers to Hivites, the descendants of Heth, son of Canean. Votan expression means "I am a Hiviti from Tripoli", Votan peoples were the Sea-faring people and expert international traders.41
Mackenzie rejects the theory that Semities or Celts or Norsemen or any other people first discovered America. Scholars, Mackenzie including, hold the view that the Pheoninicans were the first immigrants to America. The question remained debatable for pretty long time whether Pheonicians reached America via Atlantic Ocean or via Pacific Ocean. The latest view is that the Pheonician navigators reached America through Poloynesia via Pacific Ocean. Phoenicians were the original Panis 42 of Bharata who belonged to the Ahi or Nāga race of Bharata. The inseparable association of the Quatzalcoatl people with snakes clearly identifies them with the Panis of the Ahi race of pre-Āryan Bhārata.
The Quatzalcoatl people believed in peace, penance, chaste life and ordered progress. They introduced agriculture, industry, and art of Government. They were opposed to war and human sacrifice. Their leader Quatzalcoatl lived a chaste life, practised penance. He abstained from intoxicating drinks and was a celibate. He hated war and violence and instead of offering up in sacrifice animals or human beings, he offered bread, roses, other flowers, perfumes and incense. The culture-hero Quatzalcoatl is represented in art sitting in a meditative mood in Padmasana posture with eyes closed having two hooded horns.41 The horn emblem was taken to America by the Panis who took the same to Sumer, Egypt and Crete. They were the group of people who first arrived on the continent, later to be known as America, driven by that mighty current that set out from India towards the East.45 The figure of the representative Pani depicts a robust trader, standing erect, with folded hands having Rajasthani features and whose head is adorned with a Marwari Pugaree (Head-dress). May be, Panis of Rajasthan, having their seat of power at Arbuda (Modern Mount Abu) sailed off to America from some Indus port.
12. Epilogue:
We thus, find that the basic spiritual way of the people inhabiting the region extending from East to West in the Southern hemisphere was founded upon the basic doctrines of nonviolence, truth, non-stealing, continance and non possessiveness. This basic way increased the ever-progressive free spirit of the person. The man is inherently free and fullest freedom is his final goal. The free man completely depended upon his free personal efforts, unaffected by any external agency, to attain his goal. His liberation or salvation did lie with him alone and nowhere else. The central driving force of the ancient Bharatiyans, Sumerians, Egyptians and the rest was Right Personal Effort. Their society may be called Effortive Society; their culture, Effortive Culture and their civilization, Effortive Civilization. Theirs' was the Effortive Way. We may, therefore, rightly call the pre-Aryan society of the region, the Shramanic (Effortive) Society and its way, the Shramanic (Effortive) Way. Their way of life, in essence, was founded upon the ideology of Shramanic spiritualism.
The Shramanic Way of the pre-Aryan ancients of this vast region of the Southern Hemisphere also reflected itself in the economic, social, political and administrative institutions of the
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