ORIGINAL HOME OF THE ARYANS

ORIGINAL HOME OF THE ARYANS Of the many theories that have been put forward by scholars and historians regarding the original home of the Aryans, the Central Asian theory of Max Mueller is accepted most widely. Max Mueller has identified Central Asia as the original home of the Aryans. He has based his view on the study of the world's languages. The significant evidence is that there are fundamental similarities among some ancient languages such as Latin, Greek and Sanskrit and the resemblances continue in the languages derived from them. For instance, 'Pitri', Sanskrit for Father, and 'pater', Latin for Father sound similar, and so does 'Matri' and 'Mater' for Mother. Max Mueller therefore concluded that the ancestors of the Indians, the Greeks, the Romans, the English and some other peoples must have originally resided at a common place,
The Austro-Hungarian theory, propounded by Dr Giles and Prof. Macdonell, considers the banks of the Danube river (south-east Europe) to have been the original home of the Aryans.

Putting forward the Sapta-Sindhu theory, many Indian historians, including Dr Sampurnanand and Avinash Chandra Dass, point out that the modem Punjab and Sindh
. region (or Sapta-Sindhu) was where the Aryans originated. The view is based on a study of geographical features mentioned in the hymns of the Rigveda,
From the description of certain natural phenomena, such as long evenings, days and nights of six months' duration, etc., in the Rigveda, Lokmanya TIlak came to the conclusion that the original home of the Aryans was in the regions near the North Pole. He reached this view after a close study of several ancient books such as the Zend Avesta apart from the Rigveda.

Swami Dayananda wrote in the Satyartha Prakash that the original home of the Aryans was Tibet. As their population grew they could not continue to stay in TIbet and thus migrated towards India. His view is supported by EE. Pargiter.