Idiotic Musings from the West

[bong]

oh yeah.... persians were opposite in thinking than us. they called asurs good nd indra etc devtas r bad. neither they hv brahm/ishwar or tridev etc concpets. neither they hv yoga, meditation, rebirth, aatma, moksya etc hindu concepts. so how can different opposite believe system can be brothers. yes we hv some similarities though. but for them we were adharmik nd for us they were adharmik. calling them "our bros" is same like "ganga jamuna tehjeeb" walas r our bros.

Yeah they were Asur worshippers indeed,so mlecch,but I said that based on historical context,not a religious one. Plus we as nations had good relations with each other.
And when you compare it with our(hindus) relations with medieval pisslamic Iranics,yeah Ancient Parsis do seem to be our bros.

 

[GaudaNaresh]

oh yeah.... persians were opposite in thinking than us. they called asurs good nd indra etc devtas r bad. neither they hv brahm/ishwar or tridev etc concpets. neither they hv yoga, meditation, rebirth, aatma, moksya etc hindu concepts. so how can different opposite believe system can be brothers. yes we hv some similarities though. but for them we were adharmik nd for us they were adharmik. calling them "our bros" is same like "ganga jamuna tehjeeb" walas r our bros.

That is no different that the buddhists and jains calling the devtas as 'only human' and not devtas. These ideological differences in pagan religions do not lead to subjugation/irradication/opression and in the case of Persians, we don't see any :
Even when Persian high priest kartir was entrenching Zoroastrianism and got Christianity banned ( 270s CE IIRC, this is the first and only time a pagan religion has acted in abrahamic way and banned a religion), we still see Buddhist & hindu epigraphy in their coins from the mints in the east - like Kabul or Bactria.

Same way the hindushahi rulers didnt go nuking any zoroastrian in their territory ( which was significant) coz their devtas are our asurs..

 

[GaudaNaresh]

Btw, same reason why Kartir and Bahram banned christianity, is the same reason Japan banned chrsitianity in the 1600s - technically in christianity, christians owe allegiance to the head of the church. Ie, if you are orthodox, your allegience is to the Patriarch of Constantinople, catholic = pope, anglican = english king, etc. To militarized nations like Japan or Iran, you rock up with a religion that says 'its followers owe first allegience to a dude over there,then to you, their emperor/king', what do you think the response would be ?

 

[GaudaNaresh]

Another thing about the Sassanids - their eastern coinage was definitely more dharmic-friendly than their imperial core coinage (sassanid coinage differed in motif depending on the mint region of the empire. From its heartland in Iran, such as Iranshahr/Reyy/Tifsun/nishapur, etc. the coinage tended to be one side having emperor's face, the other side a fire altar,with middle persian script naming the shahenshah.
In Sassanid Sindh, the coinage is the same, but the king's side includes a prominent brahmi 'Sri' symbol with rest of them being in middle persian script.

However, Sassanids defeated and vassalized the Kushans, particularly in their western territory up to Gandhara, which spent around 240CE -around 350-360CE as under Kushano-Sassanids, a sort of vassal dynasty of the imperial Sassanids, after which, the region came under Gupta dominance.

Here, however, we see a distinct fusion of Iranian + Indian styles in coinage. We still see the same King's face on one side for most part, though its sometimes replaced by potrait of the entire body of the king in Indian style- with the reverse often having a mix of fire altar/shiva/nandi/buddha etc. and the script being a combination of brahmi/kharosthi/pahlevi

Kushano-Sasanian Kingdom - Wikipedia

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