The Maurya Empire: Pashtuns dont forget your Hindu and Buddhist Past

[شمله ور خراساني]

for those who don't know the difference, Bhuddism emerged as a deviant sect out of HInduism.

So those who lie and say there was no hinduism among Pashtuns are ignorant. They think bhuddism and hinduism are very different. While they are not.

[roadrunner]

for those who don't know the difference, Bhuddism emerged as a deviant sect out of HInduism.

So those who lie and say there was no hinduism among Pashtuns are ignorant. They think bhuddism and hinduism are very different. While they are not.

Buddhism didn't emerge out of Hinduism. Wow, now we're losing the plot.

[roadrunner]

The Scythians were Iranic people so their language must be related to the old Persian. Now as far as these Jats or Rajputs are concerned they speak Indic languages, like Punjabi. But as I said earlier that those Scythians who came and settled in these areas some two thousand years ago don't exist anymore as such, they have been mingled with the local population.

no The Iranic people is nothing more than a classification by language. The term Iranian in this case has nothing to do with modern day iran. I believe it's orientalist. Anyway, Old Persian is western Iranic, Scythian is not. The Jats speak Indic, that's true, and certainly if language is anything to go by, they were not Scythian even some 2,000 years ago.