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The Asokan inscriptions (third century B.C.), repeatedly use expressions like
‘Hinda’ for ‘India’ and ‘Hinda loka’ for ‘Indian nation’. ‘Hinda’ and its
spinoff kinds are used greater than 70 occasions within the Ashokan inscriptions. For
occasion within the Jaugadha, separate rock edict II, the strains 3 &4, learn,
(All males are my individuals. I want for my those that they might be supplied with all
welfare and happiness. I want for my individuals, together with the individuals of Hind and
past and I want for all males.)
The Edict additional, says in strains 7 & 8,
(Dhamma could also be adopted and and the individuals of Hind and past could also be
served.)
The Ashokan inscriptions set up the antiquity of the title ‘Hind’ for India to atleast third century B.C.
In Persepolis Pahlvi inscriptions of Shahpur II (310 A.D.) the king has the titles
shakanshah hind shakastan u tuxaristan dabiran dabir, “king of Shakastan,
minister of ministers of Hind Shakastan and Tukharistan”.6
The epigraphic proof from the Achaemenid, Ashokan and Sasanian Pahlvi
information, places a query mark on the false idea concerning the time period ‘Hindu’ having
originated in Arab utilization within the eighth century A.D. Literary proof takes the
antiquity of the phrase ‘Hindu’ again to 5000 B.C.
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