Some of them were said to
be related to the lord of Kosala. (Vide Encyclopaedia Brittannica Vol. XXIII, under
Sahara). In far off Mexico, they celebrate a festival called
Rama Sita. The
time of the festival corresponds to our Dussara or Navaraatri period. (Vide p. 56 of
the Text and Plate 24 in T.W.F. Gann's "The Maya Indians of Southern Yucatan, North
and British Honduras").
Excovations
made in that country have brought to light a number of Ganesa idols. (Baron Humboldt
quoted in Harbilas Sarda's 'Hindu Superiority'
p. 151). The ancient inhabitants of
those parts were Aastikas, (i.e. those who believed in the Vedas), a term which still
lingers in its corruption as Aztecs, as the people there are now called.
In Peru, in West South America, the inhabitants were Sun-worshippers. Their
principal festivals of the year fell on the solstices (vide-Asiatic Researches Vol. I p.
426). They were known as the Incas from Ina meaning the Sun.
We know the
Puraanic story of the King Sagara and of his sixty thousand sons who were burnt to ashes
by the sage Kapila. The princes dug the earth to go to paataala loka in their search for
the sacrificial horse, which they found near the sage Kapila who was engaged in tapas.
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