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Socotra is 2000 kilometers from Indian coastline. Paleographic analysis confirms the Hoq inscriptions were written in different decades, different centuries. Numerous ships must have come to Socotra between 100 BC–600 AD.
C-6: Ancient Hindus were seasoned in ship building, sailing, trading with Ethiopians, Syrians, Greeks, etc (since the cave has non-Indian inscriptions).
Hoq cave is 1000+ feet above sea level, over a long hike (takes about 2.5 hours from shore). Cave is big, beautiful, 2+ kilometers deep. After the first few hundred feet, the cave is pitch dark inside. Full of stalactites, stalagmites, few small water pools. Ancient visitors must have brought a fire torch with them. To write, they used nearby mud, burnt charcoal, and broken stalagmite. Natural barriers & darkness make it difficult to find & reach the deepest point of the cave. But ancient Hindus+Buddhists reached it, left inscriptions.
C-7: Ancient Hindus were explorers with a sense of creative adventure. We see something similar with Hindu Sanskrit inscriptions found in many parts of southeast Asia. These likely came from visitors from ports in modern Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Bengal (Kalinga+Tamils).
Socotra is 2000 kilometers from Indian coastline. Paleographic analysis confirms the Hoq inscriptions were written in different decades, different centuries. Numerous ships must have come to Socotra between 100 BC–600 AD.
C-6: Ancient Hindus were seasoned in ship building, sailing, trading with Ethiopians, Syrians, Greeks, etc (since the cave has non-Indian inscriptions).
Hoq cave is 1000+ feet above sea level, over a long hike (takes about 2.5 hours from shore). Cave is big, beautiful, 2+ kilometers deep. After the first few hundred feet, the cave is pitch dark inside. Full of stalactites, stalagmites, few small water pools. Ancient visitors must have brought a fire torch with them. To write, they used nearby mud, burnt charcoal, and broken stalagmite. Natural barriers & darkness make it difficult to find & reach the deepest point of the cave. But ancient Hindus+Buddhists reached it, left inscriptions.
C-7: Ancient Hindus were explorers with a sense of creative adventure. We see something similar with Hindu Sanskrit inscriptions found in many parts of southeast Asia. These likely came from visitors from ports in modern Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Bengal (Kalinga+Tamils).
