Rohtak-Harita
Places bear ancient memories in Indian Subcontinent
Haryana; the realm of Ikṣvākus
Harita was the son of Rohita, an Ikṣvāku king. Aikṣvākus are remembered to be ruling from the Sarayu River near Ganges. This became a myth so big that prominent researcher made a big blunder without taking the account of River Ikṣumatī being their place of origin mentioned in Ramayana.
In todays time we call Harita as Haritā which is a small village near Hissar. If you have noticed the map of Ravi and Sutlej in the earlier blogs there is a place name called Harike (Hari-ke-Pattan) at the junction of today’s Ravi and Sutlej. These names bear the history of Ikṣvākus. Sindhudwipa name of an Ikṣvāku king itself bears toponymy as the king’s name, long before Sindh as a state came into being. It’s still being remebered by Kutchi, Gujarati and Sindhi Lohāṇa people that they belong to the lineage of Rāma. Lohāṇa originally came from Multan. We just had a crashcourse on where the battle of ten kings would have had happened — i.e., Multan.
We also saw that Nabha from Nābhāg is one such possibility. The whole of the Haryana and the greater Punjab was once under the spell of Ikṣvākus which can easily be felt with the toponyms bearing the king names.
Ain’t that interesting!
