Shakdwipi in Matsya Puran

ACCORDING TO THE MATSYA PURANA, an ancient book from india, the world belonged to the kushites or saka (as they are sometimes called) for 7000 years.

In the mahabharata, the sakadwipa is the 'land of the [kushites] sakas. the seven mountains of sakadwipa were named meru, malaya, jaladhara, raivata, syama, durgasaila and kesara. the meru of indian literature may be none other than the meroe of the sudan, or a primeval meroe that was long ago lost to cataclysm. the four kingdoms of the saka were maga (manga), masaka, mansa and mandaga. the maga, reminds us of the magians or the maka of the persian inscriptions. the masakas, in the mahabharata, are called kastriyas. the mandagas or manda were also probably mada or the medes. these medians may have had a connection with the ancient mande speakers of africa, especially the manding who often accompanied the dravidians out of middle africa into asia. this would explain the close relationship between elamite and the manding languages.

Place names offer testimony to the ancient inhabitants of an area. because whereas languages and the people who spoke them may disappear from a region place names of important areas will remain constant. there are similar place names found in the sudan and asia. prof. bator vamos toth, an expert on the ancient tamana culture has found 21 suffixes, and hundreds of place names that link the sudan and asia. for example, dr. vamos toth has noted that there is a kar-nak in egypt and kar-nak in central asia. other common place names affixes include -bura,-dan, kara, tal and ur.

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