Hindu Gods and the Corresponding Sumerian Gods_3

Dilmun and Ikshawaku

In Sumerian cuneiform, the mythical Dilmun was known as the bright and pure land. Dilmun was the land of abundant fresh water. It was known as land of rising Sun or where the sun rises first. It was a paradisaical land! It encompassed Behrain, Kuwait, Qatar, neighbouring Arabian coast and Persian gulf island. 

Bahrain in Arabic means twin water. Persian gulf is the salt water and Abzu or Apsu is an Arabian aquifer, is a fresh water stream. There are various theories have been given to identify the location of Dilmun. It's hard to get any substantial archaeological evidences to establish the exact location of Dilmun.  Climatic changes, several migrations, wars and civilization changes make archaeological findings a rare feat.

There were an extensive trade connection between Dilmun, Indus valley, Mesopotamia and Meluha. Dilmun seals are found at Lothal, Gujarat. Surprising things are weights and measures that were found at Dilmun were identical to those of Indus valley and not to Mesopotamia. There was more than mere trade connections between Dilmun and Indus-Saraswati civilization.

Dilmun appears first in Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet at the end of 4th millennium BC. The adjective Dilmiun is used to describe a type of axe and one specific official. Dilmunites were bow and axe carrier hunters. The elites of Dilmun civil were considered true royalty by the Mesopotamian. They were Kshatriya of Solar dynasty. They established first city at Eridu and cult of Enki. Dilmuns were the Ikshwakus! Connections and civilization exchanges between Sea faring people and Su people had long been established which gave rise to many cultures and civilizations around.

Our great heroes like Rama, Baharta, Sagara, Bhagiratha and many others belonged to Ikshawaku dynasty. Twenty to out of twenty four Jain Thirthankara belonged to this dynasty. Ikshawakus founded solar dynasty.

Ikshawaku's literal meaning in Sanskrit is sugar cane though in marshy land it represented REED. Reed is a tall, slender leave plant of grass family, which grows in water or on marshy ground. As the civilization developed and spread wide it would adopt  local norms and meanings as a substitute and weave stories around them, but the basic theme remain same in every culture.

Inzak was the chief god of dilimunite pantheon. He was the god of Agaru, a land in Eastern Arabia. He was a Saptarishi Angira. Their main cult centre was at Failaka island which is in Kuwait, the extreme southern end of Iraq.

Agni (Eastern Semitic) daughter (Angira daughter) had six sons by her Ikshawaku husband. Ikshawakus were the mixed breed of sea faring people and Samarrans/Su people. Ikshawaku's son expanded and created several other solar kingdoms.

 Among the six sons of Ikshawaku, the prominent one was illustrious Prajapati  Prachinbarhi. Atri son  is Prachinbarhi (the ancient fire) or Prachin Behrain.