My American friends in the library or in the Story Circle often used to ask me in post 9/11 mishap what was the behavior pattern of muslims in India. Most of them have the IDEA that the relationship between us was very stressful which was not at all. They were very surprised to hear this from me.
I said most of Indian muslims were converted from the Hindu Indians for several reasons . Indian Caste system was very rigid .
The "Shudras" or lower caste Hindu adopt Islam religion due to partiality and torture from the Brahmins as upper class .during the Mughal rule in India Aurangzeb imposed "jijiya tax " to only the Hindu framers. So lot of Lower caste Hindus converted to Muslims to avoid the "tax" .
Then East India Company ruled 200 years . The British also offered many parks and facilities to the Muslims only to win their support who were Christanized later . Native home of my in-laws family is in Plassey, situated on the border of present Bangladesh . 99% farmers of our land are Muslims with good relationship .
It is the politicians of democratic country who used them as "pawn" for their own benefit . Even now, India is the only safest place where the muslims are celebrating ID festival peacefully while the whole world is in turmoil!
#(21)[Mystery of the Story that remained Unrevealed ]
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[w1092/. LORD SHIVA AND KABA
Long long ago. there lived a Hindu king in Rajtarangini , near( valley of Kasmir), as came to be known at present time. The geographical map of Hindusthan or India was very much different from now . Pakistan / Afganitan all were included as part of India or Hindustan.
The. concept of 'country' was too. far to be formed . The land consisted of multiple number of kingdoms which were ruled by independent tribal rulers known as kings .They were often busy in fighting between themselves. for power and land ; the powerful king used to conquest the weaker rulers and subjugated their kingdoms annexed to his own territory . But there was also great friendship among some of the kings ;they made their bond stronger by setting matrimonial relationship.
This story happened long before the origin of Islam religion . It happened perhaps before four / five thousand years ago, may be more ancient .Thus strong friendship and love grew up between two powerful kings : one was the ruler of the land near to valley of present Kashmir while the other was near Gandhar , now known as Kandahar . In those days Fair was very common in all these kingdoms to attract not only crowd or customers but it was mainly important for trading business; Fairs supported the treasury. of kingdom solid , sound and secured.
Fair in Kashmir took place in autumn (September ). while in. Gandhar it was in the month of October /November. One year , it happened that while the workers of Kashmir were cleaning the huge arena to pitch tents for the fair. ,they found a black piece of cylinder-shaped stone of rock ; they digged the soil deep. to reach the bottom of the rock; the bottom was flat triangular shaped platter upon which the cylinder-rock rested . The news reached to the king; the king visioned a message from lord "Shiva"in dream declaring,
" I am "KamaDeba'; I have come to bless the people of this kingdom.; don't cut the adjacent peepul tree ; I want to stay under the shadow of this huge peepul tree. "
But the people of the village demanded to make a temple ,carving a peepul tree on it under the shade of original peepul tree .The temple was built and the opening ceremony of fair commenced with the inauguration of the temple of KAMADEBA. .The temple would remain closed throughout the year but be opened only during the time of fair .
This news spread like prairie fire. When the fair opened in the land near the valley of Kashmir , People from far and near overcrowded unimaginably . Naturally the trading flourished four times more which added wealth and prosperity to the royal treasury. All the future years also went on gloriously .On the other hand. Fair lost its importance and glamour in Gandhar ; it began to dwindle and plummeted which made the king sad and unpopular to his subjects..
It made both of them unhappy . None of them want to loose their unselfish love and friendship for material causes .King of Kashmir realized that the popularity of fair was due to the devotional attraction of " Kamadev".
Before it turned into thorn to poison their relationship, he proposed to his friend of Gandhar
that he would send "Kamadeva " to his kingdom during the time of his festival so that it could attract crowd and traders in the fair .The proposal was accepted cheerfully by his friend .
Now the problem was how to move the huge rock long way ? The local people and the king's subjects might become angry if god "Kamadeva " is dislodged . from the temple So the Hindu king planned to make a huge ebony wheeled-chest -box with lock in which great Kamdeva would be placed under the cover. of velvet cloth to be cautious from easy sight .
Thus the wheeled box was easily carried like charriot in the dark of evening by some hired outsiders to the land near Gandhar before the opening of the Fair . It was returned to the temple in the same manner. In those days communication between people of remote land was too rare to share . Thus the fact remained unknown to both sides of land except the two kings.
Fair of Gandhar also became famous ,not merely for trading but also as a pilgrimage for " Kamadeva ". Lots of childless women became mothers after glancing that mystic Rocky stone in the chest box .The duration of Fair was for thirty days .It used to end on the day just after new-moon. The women, both rich and poor , became so much biased in their belief that they spent there in tents eating only one time some simple. fruits and water .The cause of fasting might be due to scanty supply of abundant food for huge crowd, or the belief that fasting (or controlling appetite, physical craving ) would shower blessings and better result!
The two kings continued their friendly relationship throughout their life.. Even the legacy ran uninterrupted through several generations for few hundred years .
But time never stands still on one place for longer period. Following the natural law the land changed its geographical features within few hundred years due to natural calamities like earthquake , land -slide , ice-melting, storm , flood , forest-fire etc; Somewhere mountain raised peak on the plain, whereas green pasture turned into desert ; , some river dried and lost their identity in the unknown region, whereas some new river originated.
Society in ancient time was ruled on the basis of "might was right " principle. Powerful king won over the weaker kingdom and sometimes used to become dictator . The new victorious king shifted "Kamdeba' in wheeled charriot near to his own kingdom which was little far from the previous one .
Time rolled on changes; changes through merging and breaking ;through formation and dissolution . With civilization , lands were introduced with different names , races, religiosn and languages . Any language connected to its land had reached to its present stage through evolutionary changes.
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It is inferred that "Kabaa" of Islam Religion is like metamorphosis form of "Kamadeba "; "KamDeba" is a Sanskrit word ; which was not easy to pronounce for many. So in course of time only " KABAA" remained, shedding the middle portion of he word ; remaining part persists : Kamde-ba.
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