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Thakur Jagdev Chand Smriti Shodh Sansthan
An Institute for Rewriting History of Bharat
By Krishnanand Sagar
"So far as we know, the relations between India and Mongolia are 2500 years old, but when the organisers of this seminar told that these relations go back from 8,000 to 11,000 years, it increased my curiosity and I decided to come here.” In these words Shri Voroshilov Enkhbold, the Ambassador of Mongolia in Bharat, expressed his views while addressing the inaugural session of a three-day-long seminar organised by Thakur Jagdev Chand Smriti Shodh Sansthan, Neri, at Sujanpur Tihra in Himachal Pradesh. He praised the endeavour of the research centre in retracing the history of the country.
This seminar was organised on October 31 and November 1 and 2, 2009, at Sujanpur Tihra, which was the capital of Maharaja Sansar Chand of Kangra. The topic of the seminar was “Maharaja Sansar Chand and His Times”.
Shri Voroshilov also inaugurated the exhibition at the seminar in which various pictures of the scientific system of Bharatiya calendar, scientists of the Vedic civilisation, rishis, ancient Sanskrit documents, etc, were exhibited.
Ninety-five-year-old Thakur Ram Singh, founder of the Thakur Jagdev Chand Smriti Shodh Sansthan, Neri, speaking on the occasion threw light on the ancient history and the relations between Bharat and Mongolia. He said, “In the very ancient times Vishnu’s capital ‘Vishnupuri’ was at Sumeru Parvat in the Himalayas. All countries from the Himalayas up to the Ksheer Sagar (North Ocean) came under his empire. Vishnu was a great yogi who generally used to go beyond Ksheer Sagar in the North Pole for the practice of yoga. He was also a great warrior who killed Hiranyakasipu, the king of the West Asia, and released devas from his confinement. All descendants of Vishnu were also called with the title of ‘Vishnu’.
“Once when Vishnu went to the North Pole for his yogabhyas for a long period, his son Mangal, to rule the empire more efficiently, established a new capital in the Middle Asia, which later on was called Mongolia, i.e. the place of Mangal.”
He further said that in Sanskrit the other word for Mangal is bhaum. The Katoch Kshatriyas of Kangra consider Mangal to be their first ancestor. About 11,000 years ago, a descendant of Mangal, named Som Chand, came in the hill areas of the Trigarta and established the Kangra state for the security of devas. Thus Mongols and Katochs are the descendants of Vishnu, whose original place was Vishnupuri situated on the Sumeru Parvat which is in the north side of Badrinarayan. That is why, like Bharat, Ganga water is worshipped in Mongolia too.
Stating the fact that Susharma of Trigarta fought in the Mahabharat war on the side of Duryodhan, he stressed that the period from Mangal to Susharma is historically very important and needs profound research. Similarly, the time of Maharaja Sansar Chand Katoch, who was the 479th ruler of Kangra is also important.
He pointed out that out of all existing dynasties of the world, the Katoch dynasty of Kangra is the oldest one. Therefore, the deep research on this dynasty will definitely supply the source material to trace the real history of the world. Keeping this in view, the topic of this seminar is kept “Maharaja Sansar Chand and His Times”.
Giving some guidelines to rewrite the history of Bharat he said history of Bharat is divided into two parts: One is the ancient history, and the other is the modern history. Ancient history starts from the beginning of the creation and ends at the Mahabharat war. Modern history starts after the Mahabharat and proceeds to this day. In other words, the modern history is the history of Kaliyuga, i.e. the history of last 51 centuries. Thus Mahabharat is the dividing line between the ancient and the modern history of Bharat.
Again the ancient history is divided into three yugas or periods: 1. Daiva Yuga (first human creation) 10,000 years long, 2. Brahma Yuga—1,85,24,06,000 years long, and 3. Kshatra Yuga—12,05,28,000 years long. The Kshatra Yuga ended on Mahabharat and after that started the Kaliyuga or the modern age.
At the end of his speech, he called upon the research scholars to join hands with the Shodh Sansthan in the huge task of rewriting the history on scientific lines.
Shri Prem Kumar Dhumal, Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, said there is a need for rewriting the history based on research by scholars to make the future generation proud of their glorious past. According to him, there are some historical facts which do not coincide with the actual happenings and some of these are even contradictory. Therefore, distorted historical facts require modification. He further said Thakur Jagdev Chand Smriti Shodh Sansthan is doing a great service by retracing the history of the country with gathering the new facts.
Presiding over the function former Chief Minister Shri Shanta Kumar underlined the need to remove discrepancies in the history.
The present descendant of the Katoch dynasty, Shri Aditya Chand Katoch, was also present at the function.
In the following sessions of the three-day seminar, 30 scholars, who came from different parts of Bharat, presented their research papers on various aspects of the topic of the seminar.
(The writer can be contacted at F-109, Sector 27, Noida-201 301.)
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