ABLE
PANCH / PANCHAYAT
25.
Able Panch / Panchayat :
In
ancient India there used to be a tradition which in remote villages
still exists where if there is any dispute between parties they
will call for Panchayat.
In
Panchayat there is a head of village known as Sarpanch and along
with him there are 4 more members making total of 5. These 5 people
are known as Panch-Parmeshwar where Panch means five and Parmeshwar
means god.
These
5 people sit infront of villagers and solves the dispute and whatever
decision they make all the parties have to agree.
Here,
the main question arises is that how this word panch came into existance
and the tradition behind panchayat? for the answer again we have
to back in Aryan roots to know about it.
The
first dynasty of Panch-alas or "Able Panch" was early
Phoenicians.
The
5 sons of King Uruash's or Haryashwa's / Sargon 1 formed "Panch"
or first "Phoenician" dynasty. The First Phoenician Dynasty
was known as "Panch(-ala)". The word Kuru-Panchal means
Syro-Phoenician.
Since
the Aryans were also in India words like Panch, Sarpanch and Panchayat
came into existance along with Aryan traditions which still exists
in Indian villages.
The
information about the Able panch is in various books of Lieutenant
Colonel Laurence Austine Waddell when we collect all the fragments
of information and put it in a sequence we are able to clearly understand
the history and how this word Able Panch came into existance.
Out
of many books below I am giving the names of only those books which
I have taken as a reference to connect Able Panch with Panch, Sarpanch
and Panchayat and I have given numbering to fragments of information.
Able
Panch :
According
to Lieutenant Colonel Laurence Austine Waddell :
The
Indo-Sumerian Seals Deciphered (1925) :
1.
The owners of several of these Sumerian seals, I soon observed,
bore the names of famous Vedic Aryan seers and princes with whom
I had become familiar in the Vedic hymns of the Brahmans, and some
of whom were specified therein as living on the banks of the Indus.
Most of the others, for fortunately all the seals are engraved with
their owners' names with one exception, are identified with other
Vedic and Epic Aryan heroes who are disclosed as governors of a
colony of seafaring Sumerian or Phoenician merchants and exploiters
of the mineral wealth of the Indus Valley, and through the Ravi
tributary of the latter the gold-fields of Tibet from about 3100
B.C.
The colony was founded by the famous Sumerian king of that epoch,
Uruas', the Haryas'wa of the Vedas and Indian Epics, and the "Ur
Nina" of Assyriologists, who is generally regarded as the first
great dynast of the Early Sumerians; and he is now disclosed to
be a Phoenician, the founder of the First Dynasty of Phoenicians
in Mesopotamia, and the son of the great HercuIes of the Phoenicians
and Greeks, here conclusively identified with the Sumerian epic
hero "Gilgamesh" of Erech, and now disclosed for the first
time as a historical human Aryan Sumerian Phoenician king and great
Sun-priest of Bel of relatively fixed date, about 3150 B.C.
The
seals are in fact the official signets and grave-amulets of the
administrators with their family priests of a Mesopotamian colony
in the distant Indus Valley whose very existence had been hitherto
unsuspected by Assyriologists.
Some of them are the official signets of famous historical Sumerian
and "Akkad" kings of Mesopotamia as suzerains of the colony,
including Sargon I, who appears to have personally visited it. And
the seals extend down to the end of the Ur Dynasty about 2350 B.C.,
on the overthrow of that dynasty by its tributary province of Elam,
when they suddenly cease, presumably owing to the colony having
been lost to Mesopotamia and abandoned.
All these Sumerian and "Akkad" kings, governors and priests
are duly recorded in the Vedas and Indian Epics as "Aryans";
and some of them are called "The able Panch" which
I have shown is a form of "Phoenic-ian." On their Indus
Valley seals, several bear the title of "Aryan" and of
"Phoenician" by its more common synonyms, and others call
themselves "Amorite," Goth and "Scyth," thus
confirming my discoveries announced in the former work that the
Sumerians, "Akkads," Amorites and Phoenicians were racially
Aryans.
(The
first dynasty of Panch-alas or "Able Panch" was early
Phoenicians.)
Moreover,
they use on their grave amulet seals the same Sumerian sacred numeral
script or "cup-mark" script, and couched in substantially
the same formulas to the Sun-god as I have shown in my former work,
were used by the Early Sumerians, Phoenicians, Amorites and Trojans,
and by the Early Britons on their "cupmarked" tombs in
Ancient Britain, and thus confirming my reading of this cup-mark
script on the British monuments, and the Phoenician origin of the
Britons.
At
the same time it is made clear that these early Aryan Sumero-Phoenicians
who established and kept this colony on the Indus for about eight
centuries, did not form a part of that great Aryan immigration which
is now generally called "The Aryan Invasion of India."
This latter event, with its permanent occupation and systematic
civilization of the heart of India, the Ganges Valley or Hindustan,
I find from a mass of new evidence, took place no earlier than the
beginning of the seventh century B.C., and not by sea, but overland
from Asia Minor and Syria-Phoenicia, through Persia and across the
Lower Indus, by a remnant of the Hittite army and Aryan Syrio-Phoenician
people seeking new settlements after their calamitous defeat by
the Assyrian Sargon II at Carchemish in 718 B.C.
2.
First "Panch(-ala)" or Phoenician Dynasty in Mesopotamia
about 3100 - 2950 B.C.
No.
|
Names
in Indian Epic Lists of Aryan Kings |
Names
in Sumerian |
As
revised by me |
As
ready by Assyriologists |
1. |
Hary-as'wa
or B'army-as'wa |
Uru-as'
(the) Khad or Bar-ama-'ha-as' |
Ur-Nina |
2. |
Mudgala,
eldest son of 1 |
(A-)Mad-gal,-
eldest son of 1 |
Akurgal
eldest son of 1 |
3. |
Pasenadi
or Badhry-as' wa, son of 2 |
Bi(d)-as'-na-di,
son of 2 |
Eannatum,
son of 2 (Entemena, son of 3) |
4. |
Divo-Dasa
or "Divine Dasa", son of 3 |
En-e
Tar-si or "Divine Tarsi" |
En-li
(Ene) Tarzi |
|
The
Makers of Civilization in Race and History :
3.
The famous five sons of the Emperor Uruash identical in Sumerian
records and Indian lists in Names, Titles and Achievements :
No
more striking and absolute proof of the identity of the Sumerian
emperor Uruash with the Aryan emperor Haryashwa is possible than
that now demonstrated not only of the identity of himself and his
dynasty, but also of his five famous sons in their names, titles,
relative order and achievements in Sumerian and Aryan.
The
names and representations of King Uruash himself along with his
five famous sons are preserved in his well known inscribed votive
plaques (see Plate VII A and Fig. 20).
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FIG.
20 : King Uruash (Haryashwa of Indian Lists). Sumerian
Emperor of Mesopotamia and priest-king with his five famous sons.
From contemporary votive plaque of limestone at Lagash City and
see photograph in PI. VII A. (After Heuzey Dec, pl. 2 bis.)
Note : In upper register the king as priest-king
with shaven head and face as a workman carrying a basket of bricks
to build his temple to Nimirrud (or St Michael), the patron saint
of the city. with his family whose names are written across their
woollen skirts. His daughter Lidda stands in front. Next is the
crown-prince Madgal. holding a jar in his right hand, and his third
son (Baridishshu) is behind his father holding up some object; and
his other three sons stand in order behind the crown-prince. In
lower register the king is seated holding a sacrificial cup (of
fire or oblation) with four sons taking part in the rite, the foremost
holding out his right hand for the cup, and behind the king, the
same son as in top register bearing a mace or other object.
These plaques carved somewhat roughly in limestone and pierced by
a hole, presumably for attachment to the wall or pillar of a temple,
represent him with his five sons in two different scenes, and each
individual bears his or her own name written across their body or
skirt. In the upper scene he is depicted as a priest-king with shaven
head and face, garbed in the woollen embroidered flounced kilt of
royalty of that period in the sun-baked tropical plains of Mesopotamia,
and building or rebuilding a temple to the Sumerian patron saint
of his sea-port capital of Lagash, namely the canonized second Sumerian
King Nimirrud,' who we shall find is the Sumerian historical original
of "Nimrod" of city building fame in Chaldea, Shinar or
Mesopotamia.
And
in the lower register he as priest-king is celebrating with his
sons a Fire-cult ritual in a hermitage on Mount Mal. This latter
scene illustrates the extreme antiqnity of the practice, so often
referred to in the Indian epics, of ancient Aryan kings retiring
for ascetic contemplation into hermitages. And in many of the sculptures
of this and the later Sumerian period the priest-king or priest
is figured shaven and with the right shoulder bare as in the well
known representatives of the India Buddha.
The
special importance of these inscribed double scenes on the same
monument, for our present purpose, is that the top scene gives the
ordinary personal name of each of his sons, whilst the lower scene
gives their titles. And significantly in the upper scene the sons
of the king are enumerated by name in the identical order in which
they are enumerated in the Indian Chronicles, with the exception
that the third son who was presumably an adept priest by profession
is placed behind him holding up some object.
The identity in the names and order of the sons in the upper scenes
from left to right of the king with those preserved in the Indian
Chronicles is displayed in the following table. The eldest son A-Madgal
holding the vase occupies the position nearest the king and behind
his sister and his brother behind him with folded hands in adoration.
Their names are written across their skirts, whilst their father's,
the king's, name is written in front of his mouth; and the authorities
for my readings of the signs of the words when differing from previous
readings are cited from the standard Sumerian lexicons under each
name.
Identity
of Names of Uruash's five sons on upper register in Sumerian &
Indo-Aryan :
Order
in Plaque |
Sumerian
Name |
Indian
Chronicle Name |
Order
in Indian Lists |
1. |
(A·)MADGAL,
son (holding Jar) |
MUDGALA,
son, "Leader of Jar" |
1. |
2. |
SIRIM
(King-), son |
SRIN-Jaya
son |
2. |
5. |
(left)
BARlD-ISHSHU |
BRIHAD-ISHU,
son |
3. |
3. |
ANIARRA,
son |
YAVINARA,
son |
4. |
4. |
(Mu-)
GAMIMLA, son |
KAMPILYA, son |
5. |
|
It
is thus seen that the names of King Uruash's five sons are identical
in Sumerian and Indo-Aryan and similarly their order is identical,
the third son being placed alongside his father owing to his position
presumably of domestic priest-his smaller size is owing to the exigencies
of space under the inscriptions. Moreover it is specially noteworthy
that the crown-prince Madgal (or "The son Madgal" i.e.
A-Madgal) the Mudgala of the Sanskrit, who in the Sumerian picture
holds the Jar, actually bears in the solar version oj the Indian
King-Lists the title of "Leader of the Jar" (Ni-kumbha),
see Appendix I. No. 16.
The
five sons titles in lower register :
In
the lower scene in the hermitage on Mount Mal, as it is called in
the inscription, his five sons are mostly labelled with their titles
instead of their personal names. All five are his sons although
only the first three on the left-hand side are actually called there
"son," a word which is omitted in the other two presumably
from want of space.
(1.
The prefixed A = "The son" or to The," title of the
Crown-prince, see WISD. 32; and WSAD. I.
2. Ni-Kumbha. 3. Br. 4300
4 . The initial Bar is clearly written by the
sign, as in the Indus Valley seals of this period, see WISD. 31,
40. The second sign. the hand-sign with the value ID 15 also clear.
The next sign has the value I (Br. 5307) and the following signs
ish and shu (B. 311 and 7065) are distinct.
5. The third sign is not kur, but the plough sign ar (B. 261, Br.
5776).
6. The first sign Mu = "named." The second to fourth signs
are Ga (B. 275) mim (B. 116), and la (B. 440, Br. 10082, with a
blemish stroke))
Their
Sumerian titles are compared in the table below with their lunar
titles in the Indian lists shown on the right hand side of the table.
Some of these titles agree substantially in form in the Sumerian
and Indian, as for example the last two; whilst the others generally
agree in their meaning, the Indian scribes having translated the
names into the Indo-Aryan vernacular of their period.
Identity
if titles of the five sons of lower register in sumerian & Aryan
:
Order
in Plaque |
Sumerian
Name |
Indian
Chronicle Name |
Order
in Indian Lists |
1. |
Lakh-MAD-GAL-Gut
(or Goth) or "The Shepherd Madgal, the Warrior:" |
RUK-MESHU
or "Shinning Arrow" |
1. |
2. |
A-NUN-PAD
or "Sea-lord Commander", son |
JYA-MAGHA
or "Overpowerer of Magha Island |
2. |
5. |
(right)
SAG-ASH-DUK or "Duke of Troops" |
PRITHU-RUKMA
or "P. of Shining Disc" |
3. |
3. |
Uru-PAL
or "Pal the Protector", son |
PALITA
or "The Protector" |
4. |
4. |
AD-TUR-TA,
"The child of his Father", son |
HARITA
|
5. |
|
The
first son, next the king's front, is clearly again the crown-prince
Madgal, for he bears therein the latter name, with in addition the
prefixed title of Lakh or "Shepherd" and the affixed title
of Gut or "Goth" or "Warrior" the last sign
being pictured by the head of an ox as described later on. And significantly
his Indian equivalent title of Rukmeshu means "The Shining
Arrow," and we shall find that in a later Sumerian text he
bears also the title of "Shepherd," and so also in his
Indus seals (PI. IX).
Similarly with the other sons, the second bearing the title of "sea-lord"
is seen to be the second son of the upper scene, and the third and
fourth are in the same order as in the upper scene. The fifth son,
behind his father, is clearly as in the upper scene, the third born
son of the Indian lists of names, as his priest-name Prithu is dialectic
for the Brihad in the upper list, and his title Rukma or "The
Shining Disc" is in keeping with the mace-like object which
he holds in the lower Sumerian picture, and in agreement with his
Sumerian title of "Duke of the Troops."
The
achievements of the sons also, as well as their relative positions
and titles are in agreement with the Indian Chronicles.
These state that the eldest son Ruk-Meshu (i.e. Madgal) succeeded
his father in the sovereignty. His brother Prithu "the Duke
of the Troops" in Sumerian, who is figured behind the king,
remained in the service of his elder brother on his becoming king.
The youngest brother Palita and Harita were set over the Videha
Lands. And the third brother Jya-Magha or "Overpowerer of the
Island of Magha," and "The Sea-lord Commander" in
the Sumerian, went forth to conquer new lands. including "Madhya-Land,
Mekala and the Shuktimat Mountains," and established a Cidi
or Cedi or "Phoenician dynasty," presumably in Phoenicia.
Thus
the identities of the Five Sons of King Uruash are found to be alike
in names, titles and order of birth and position, in agreement in
the Sumerian records and in the Indian Chronicles. This striking
agreement again proves the identity of the Sumerians with the Aryans
in personality and in race. It also again illustrates the scrupulous
care taken by the Indian scribes in copying the official lists of
the names of the historical ancient Aryan kings down through the
ages to the present day. And it again attests the authenticity and
historicity of the Indian King-Lists and Chronicles as an independent
source of Sumerian or Early Aryan history.
4.
Uruash's or Haryashwa's "Panch" or first "Phoenician"
dynasty of sea-emperors C. 3100 B.C. to 2950 B.C.
No. |
1St
(Kish City) |
2nd
(Erech City) |
Particulars |
1. |
Arwasag,
s. of Rasax |
Uruash,
s. of Is-shax Gamesh, k. of Erech |
Sumerian
Inscriptions in Mesopotamia :
Uruash
Khad, Urusag Khad-di
Indian
Lists (P. = Pali) :
Haryashwa,
s. of Rucaka, Riksha or Ruk-Meshu |
2. |
Gal
of Ansha(n), Etana, Shepherd, s. of 1 |
Mukh
of Lands, s. of 1 |
Sumerian
Inscriptions in Mesopotamia :
Madgal,
A-Madgal, Shepherd, s. of 1
Indian
Lists (P. = Pali) :
Mudgala,
Moggalla (P.), s. of 1 |
3. |
Bigu(b)axu,
s. of 2 |
Bishir,
the protector |
Sumerian
Inscriptions in Mesopotamia :
Bi(d)ashnadi,
Bi(d)sar, Biugun, s. of 2
Indian
Lists (P. = Pali) :
Badhryashwa,
B'ujyu, Pasenadi (P.), s. of 2 |
4. |
Enme-nunna,
sea-Lord |
Ennun-nad,
lord |
Sumerian
Inscriptions in Mesopotamia :
Enash-nadi
Indian
Lists (P. = Pali) :
Yuvan-ashwa,
s. of 2 |
5. |
--- |
Dixxi
(Di-, Di-vine) |
Sumerian
Inscriptions in Mesopotamia :
Tarsi
(Ene-, or Divine, s. of 3
Indian
Lists (P. = Pali) :
Dasa
(Divo-, or Divine), Tyasa-Dasyu, s. of 3 |
6. |
Mede,
k. of Kish, s. of 4 |
Mede,
the lord |
Sumerian
Inscriptions in Mesopotamia :
Medi
or Meti
Indian
Lists (P. = Pali) :
Mettiyo
(P.), Mitrayu, s. of 5 |
7. |
Bar-Mug-nunna,
sea-lord, s. of 4 |
Kiaga,
king |
Sumerian
Inscriptions in Mesopotamia :
(Ki)-aga,
Mukuda, k. of Kish and Adab
Indian
Lists (P. = Pali) :
Cyavana,
Mucchkanda or Pijavana, s. of 6 |
8. |
Dix-saax,
s. of 7 |
--- |
Sumerian
Inscriptions in Mesopotamia :
Tarsi,
k. of Kish
Indian
Lists (P. = Pali) :
Su-Dasa,
Dus-siha, (?) Trasa-Dasyu II, s.of 7 |
9. |
Tix-ama,
s. of 8 |
--- |
Sumerian
Inscriptions in Mesopotamia :
---
Indian
Lists (P. = Pali) :
Somaka,
Sambhuta, s. of 8
|
|
The
end of Uruash's Dynasty with the seventh king, Kiaga, in the second
version of those Old Sumerian Lists misplaced by the Isin priests
is in agreement with the Indian Lists in several of the lunar versions
which end the Panch Dynasty there. Similarly the continuation of
the dynasty in the first Isin version with two more kings (see col.
1) is also paralleled in other lunar versions of the Indian Lists
which carry it on for two generations further and add a tenth (Jantu).
and continue it on to include the next four kings of the solar list
as being of the Panch Dynasty as well.
The reason for these varying lengths of this Panch Dynasty is presumably
due to revolts with loss of several of the chief cities of the empire.
Thus it appears Erech was lost in the reign of the seventh king;
whilst Kish appears to have been held and continued as the imperial
capital. And the omission in the Isin list of the tenth king of
the Indian List is presumably owing to his short reign, as he is
stated in the latter to have been slain by one Ravana and succeeded
by his "brother" Prishada, with whom the Isin lists, as
we shall see, start a new "dynasty" at Ur, which we compare
in the next chapter.
Indeed, we have striking traditional evidence of these revolts and
confederated attacks in the latter part of this dynasty preserved
in the Indian Vedic Hymns with regard to the eighth king of the
dynasty, Su-Dasa or Trasa-Dasyu, now disclosed as the historical
Sumerian King Tarsi of Kish of the inscriptions.