Why would anyone start with the Greeks when they could simply start with the south Asians?
>>24692613What's with all the low quality jeet spam
First of all, the /lit/ version of this is start with the jeets and second of all, stop spamming South Asian lit threads. Also South Asian is an anachronism for ancient Indian lit, the concept didn't exist then
>>24692613> Why would anyone start with the Greeks when they could simply start with the south Asians?Anyone who would have been considering such an option would presumably have been laboring under the spell of ignorance
>>24692613Probably because they're capable of using a toilet.
>>24692626>ancient IndianDo you think the concept of India existed back then?
>>24692729Yes, the concept of Bharatvarsha was well established in ancient India. There was some grey area in the South as to where it extended but the concept of "India" as starting east of the Iranian plateau and going southward is likely the oldest surviving concept of a nation in the world
>>24692733And to clarify, I mean nation in the strict sense of a sociocultural continuum
The Aryanpill is something that /lit/ is not ready for yet, nor do they deserve.
>>24692788chkd
>>24692733isn't this like calling Europe a country desu?
>>24692733Jeet propaganda.Bharatavarsha was the equivalent of the Greek Oikumene. It's a general term that implies what the Jeets back then considered the civilized world, the world where people loosely called bharata lived. It was a high end concept as close to reality as medieval maps, and often autistic religious categories were superimposed on it - people in the South were bestial and horny and had dong sized dicks and vaginas; people in the North were well learned and had rabbit sized dicks and vaginas. It's not related to a concept of unified Jeet nation because nationhood didn't exist back then - it was a succession of small states, big states, one after another, often with different religious and social agendas. It was a terms to defy the dimensions of what was the known world according to specific learned Jeets.But contemporary Arab mutt Jeets who speak the South Asian version of Sanskrit ebonics Larping as Sanskrit speaking learned Indo-Aryans is as funny as Estonian Larping that their suffering equals of the Holocausted Jeets and the Irish while being given DEI position of political and economic and cultural power in the USSR and allowed to speak Estonian and hold their celebrations.
>>24693711It is.
>>24692619
>>24693711It's more like calling Christendom a country.
>>24693750Meds
>>24692619It's an improvement on tradcath larpers
>>24693750>Bharatavarsha was the equivalent of the Greek Oikumene. It's a general term that implies what the Jeets back then considered the civilized worldCompletely false, why write something when you haven't the first idea of what you are writing? Mlecchas may be translated as barbarians, but only in the sense of speaking a different language, they are not necessary viewed as primitive. Yavanas (Greeks) for example often appear in Indian lists of mlecchas but Indian astronomy borrowed certain Greek practices and acknowledged it in treatises. Bharatvarsha refers to a cultural continuum corresponding to the Indian subcontinent, the only word close to what you're describing is Aryavarta which refers to North India in the context of Brahmanical, Sanskritic culture.
>>24693711It's not considered as a political entity like a country, but as a region with common culture. In that sense it is similar to the conception of Europe as a continent, but older. The modern-day Indian subcontinent is directly descended from the concept, Afghanistan is culturally intermediate between Iran and India which is why it is included in South Asia while being considered part of the Iranian world>>24693788It is not a religious name, that would be Hindustan which is also often secularly used
>>24693843It's not an improvement, it's just different.
>>24693843No, its not
>>24694806I wouldn’t mind the tradcath larpers if they weren’t almost all hypocritical prigs.
Why not both? Do you start with the Greeks or do the Greeks start with you?
>>24692729Yes, it was after Australia but before Asia.
>>24695285>Yes, it was after Australia but before Asia.wtf are you talking about?
