Arabia was not free from the influence of the followers of Vedic Dharma (the Aryans) – the people who migrated after Mahabharata war nearly to all corners of the world. Some of them reached the tract where they found speeding horses of good breed. They named it Arvansthan meaning the land and abode of horses because arvan is the Sanskrit word for ‘horse’ of good quality. Gradually Arvansthan changed to Arvasthan then to Arbansthan and later to Arabstan. In due course and over a number of years it got shortened to Arab. When the English became powerful in the world they anglicized it to Arabia.
Another section of the migrants who happened to be more learned in the Vedic scriptures reached the Isles of Britain (Brittany) and came to be known as Druids which again is a distortion of the Sanskrit word Dravid which is derived from two Sanskrit roots dra meaning a ‘seer’ and vid meaning the learned and knowing. The Dravida of yore were highly cultivated people well versed in all branches of Vedic literature, learning and practices. The Druids of England practice even to this day many a Vedic ritual. “The Asiatic origin of the Druids has long been an acknowledged point in the world of antiquities.
Reuben Burrow, author 'A Proof that the Hindoos had the Binomial Theorem', Asiatic Researches vol. ii: 388-395; First published 1790, the great practical astronomer of India, was the first person, who after a strict examination and comparison of their mythological superstitions and their periods directly affirmed them to be a race of emigrant Indian philosophers. Again: “These priests (the Druids), Brahmins of India spread themselves widely through the northern regions of Asia even to Siberia itself, and gradually mingling with the great body of Celtic tribes (Kolotaya people to the south of Kashmir) pushed their journey to the extremity of Europe and finally established the Druid that is the Brahmin system of superstition in ancient Britain – This I contend was the first Oriental colony settled in these (British) islands.”
(source: The Hindu - By Krishna Vallabh Paliwal and Brahm Datt Bharti p. 46 - 47).
Thomas Maurice (1754-1824) who was inspired to address in one of the volumes of his 'Indian Antiquities' the issue it raised of the relationship between Druids and Brahmins. Introducing 'A Dissertation on the Indian Origin of the Druids and on the Striking Affinity which the Religious Rites and Ceremonies, Anciently Practiced in the British Islands, bore to those of the Brahmins', Thomas Maurice referred to Burrow's earlier work as having established the fact that the genesis of Druidry was found in Asia (Maurice 1812: iv-v).
Another section of the migrants who happened to be more learned in the Vedic scriptures reached the Isles of Britain (Brittany) and came to be known as Druids which again is a distortion of the Sanskrit word Dravid which is derived from two Sanskrit roots dra meaning a ‘seer’ and vid meaning the learned and knowing. The Dravida of yore were highly cultivated people well versed in all branches of Vedic literature, learning and practices. The Druids of England practice even to this day many a Vedic ritual. “The Asiatic origin of the Druids has long been an acknowledged point in the world of antiquities.
Reuben Burrow, author 'A Proof that the Hindoos had the Binomial Theorem', Asiatic Researches vol. ii: 388-395; First published 1790, the great practical astronomer of India, was the first person, who after a strict examination and comparison of their mythological superstitions and their periods directly affirmed them to be a race of emigrant Indian philosophers. Again: “These priests (the Druids), Brahmins of India spread themselves widely through the northern regions of Asia even to Siberia itself, and gradually mingling with the great body of Celtic tribes (Kolotaya people to the south of Kashmir) pushed their journey to the extremity of Europe and finally established the Druid that is the Brahmin system of superstition in ancient Britain – This I contend was the first Oriental colony settled in these (British) islands.”
(source: The Hindu - By Krishna Vallabh Paliwal and Brahm Datt Bharti p. 46 - 47).
Thomas Maurice (1754-1824) who was inspired to address in one of the volumes of his 'Indian Antiquities' the issue it raised of the relationship between Druids and Brahmins. Introducing 'A Dissertation on the Indian Origin of the Druids and on the Striking Affinity which the Religious Rites and Ceremonies, Anciently Practiced in the British Islands, bore to those of the Brahmins', Thomas Maurice referred to Burrow's earlier work as having established the fact that the genesis of Druidry was found in Asia (Maurice 1812: iv-v).
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