Kedarnath Pande (1893-1963), the multi-talented great scholar (“Mahapandit”) Indologist, multilinguist (he knew thirteen languages), and widely travelled, was born as a bhumihar Brahmin on April 9, 1893, in Pandah village, Azamgarh district, Uttar Pradesh. He was fluent in Sanskrit, Hindi, and its various dialects such as Bhojpuri.
Malavi, Avadhi, Maithilli, Braj, Rajasthani, and Nepali are all dialects. He studied the Pali and Sinhalese languages and read original Buddhist texts. He converted to Buddhism and took the name “Rahul Sankrityayan.” Rahul was Buddha’s son’s name, and’sankrityayan’ means “assimilator.”
“Volga se Ganga” (Original in Hindi, also translated as “Volga Ganga”) is one of his best works, tracing the migration and evolution of Indian people from 6000 BC to the present.
Multan is one of the locations mentioned in his book Volga se Ganga.
Multan is now a city and district headquarters in Pakistan’s Punjab province. Multan is a shortened version of the Sanskrit name “moolasthan,” which means “original inhabitation.”
The original settlers of the ancestral Indian subcontinent in this area referred to it as moolasthan (also spelled “mlsthan” or “mlstan”). In Prakrit, the word tan or than was used. It has been absorbed into Marathi and Kannada languages as “thana” or “thane” by migrating ancestral Indians.
The moolasthan concept was carried by migrant Tulu tribes from their original homeland of the northwestern Indian subcontinent (now part of Pakistan) to their subsequent homeland, Tulunad in the Karavali of Karnataka. Moolasthanas are the early settlements of Tulu tribes in Karavali (coastal Karantaka).
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