Croatia is one of the more beautiful countries of the world surrounded by the Dalmatian coast and the Adriatic Sea as well as many beautiful islands, lakes, waterfalls and rivers and appropriately we may find that this beautiful country of Croatia gets its name from 'Sarasvati' the great goddess of the waters.

 

Croatia possesses many rivers such as the 'Drava' a name from the language of Sanskrit whose meaning is that which 'flows' that which 'trickles' that which is a 'stream' and its not simply a fortuitous arrangement of words, its formed from 'dra' a root from the language of Sanskrit whose meaning is that which 'runs' that which 'hastens'.

 

'Dra' whose meaning is to 'run' expands to become 'drak' which means 'quickly' it becomes 'dram' which means to 'roam' to 'wander' to 'go' it becomes 'drapi' which means to 'run' and it becomes 'drava' which means to 'flow' to 'trickle' to 'stream' and the source of this river 'Drava'.

 

 

Sarasvati has been worshipped for thousands of years and her fame has spread far and wide from the lands of Vedic India to the Indonesian islands to the Indo/chinese peninsula to the lands of Malaysia to China and Japan and also the Middle East from where it may have journeyed into Europe and the lands of Croatia.

 

Another goddess of the waters which flows throughout the lands of Croatia is 'Danu' a goddess of the Ancient Vedas and a goddess of the Celts whose name can be seen within the 'Danube' a mighty river which was once venerated as sacred waters.

 

'Danu' appears throughout the pages of the Rig Veda which goes back in time some 6000 years where she is described as the mother of the Danavas and her name which seems to mean she who gives ( da ) waters ( na ) can be seen as the beautiful 'Pura Ulul Danu Bratan' a lake upon the island of Bali ( pictured below ) whose name means 'the goddess Danu is in charge of this lake'.

 

Sarasvati is venerated throughout the Vedas as the great river of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana yet she is much more as she is the goddess of learning, the goddess of language and the goddess of speech, indeed her other name is 'Vac' a root from the language of Sanskrit whose meaning is 'speech' and from which we get the words 'vocal' and 'voice'.

 

Another river which flows throughout the lands of Croatia is the 'Sava' the third largest tributary of the Danube and a name which is once again found within the language of Sanskrit where it bears the meaning of that which is 'water' and that which 'pours out'.

 

Academics declare a different etymology for the river 'Sava' tracing it to the Indo/euro root 'sewh' whose meaning is to 'take liquid' but even here we find its source is 'Su' a root from the language of Sanskrit whose meaning is to 'extract' to 'press out' to 'distill' and a root which is also the source of 'soma' a famous word mentioned throughout the Vedas whose meaning is that which is 'nectar' that which is 'extracted'.

 

 

Iran and the language of Avesta has a tendency to transform an 'S' into an 'H' as seen in 'sindhu' becoming 'hindu' as seen in 'soma' becoming 'homa' as seen in 'sapta' becoming 'hepta' and so the name of 'Sarasvati' the great goddess of the waters becomes 'Haravati' the Iranian goddess of the waters and a name seen in 'Harakhvaiti' a region once rich in lakes and rivers just as Croatia is rich in lakes and rivers.

 

Upon the lands of Croatia we find the river 'Rasa' and upon the lands of India we find the river 'Rasa' a word which is prominent throughout the Vedas and the language of Sanskrit and one which bears the appropriate meaning of that which is 'water' that which is 'fluid' that which is 'liquid' and that which is the 'essence'.

 

Rasa is formed from 'Ra' whose meaning is to 'give' to 'bestow' to 'yield' and this combines with 'Sa' whose meaning is 'knowledge' 'wisdom' 'paradise' as in to bestow ( ra ) paradise ( sa ) to yield ( ra ) wisdom ( sa ) its meaning being 'nectar' 'essence' 'elixir' 'juice' 'water' 'liquid' 'fluid' a word which can be seen throughout the Slavic languages as 'rosa' whose meaning is 'dew' as seen in 'rosemary' meaning the dew ( rasa ) of the sea ( mira ).

 

'Sarasvati' the goddess of the waters becomes 'Haravati' the Iranian goddess of the waters and from there the mystery centres around this 'hrvat' 'huravat' 'hrvati' and 'harvat' from which comes the name of 'Croat' and 'Croatia' and many believe the source is 'Sarasvati' the great goddess of the waters.

 

'Mura' is a tributary of the rivers 'Danube' which is a name from Sanskrit and 'Drava' which is a name from Sanskrit and although 'Mura' is said to mean 'dark' we find within the language of Sanskrit 'Mura' whose meaning is that which is 'impetuous' and that which 'rushes' an appropriate name for this Croatian river.

 

'Krka' is a popular river which flows throughout the lands of Croatia possessing many waterfalls and within the language of Sanskrit we find the word 'Krka' a word whose etymology is that which makes ( kr ) a sound ( ka ) and whose meaning is 'throat' a description which is not uncommon just as many rivers are described by their 'mouth'.

 

'Hrvat' is said to be the source of 'croat' and 'croatia' and once a place name in every nation known as Slavic and this also includes Austria, Macedonia, Slovenia, Greece, Moravia, Slovakia, Montenegro, Albania, and the oldest trace of 'hrvat' is said to be the 3500 year old stone tablets of Mittani where King Tussratta describes his kingdom as 'Huravat Ehillaku' a kingdom whose culture is Vedic as 'Tussratta' is simply 'Dasaratha' a word from Sanskrit meaning ten ( dasa ) chariots ( ratha ) and the name of the Kings who ruled there are all Sanskrit such as 'Rtadharma' 'Suttarna' and 'Parsasatar'.

 

'Odra' is a river which flows throughout the lands of Croatia and considering how we have the Sanskrit words 'rasa' meaning 'water' and 'drava' meaning 'flowing' and 'sava' meaning 'water' all names of Croatian rivers, we must consider that 'Odra' has come from 'Udra' a word from Sanskrit meaning 'water' and also the source of the word 'water'.

 

Its interesting how 'udra' and subsequently 'water' are brought into manifestation by the language of Sanskrit as it forms from the root 'Ud' whose meaning is 'above' 'up' 'over' and 'Ra' whose meaning is to 'give' to 'bestow' to 'reach' as in that which is bestowed ( ra ) from above ( ud ) as in the form of rain.

 

 

"The Croats of the Don, then had to come in ancient times from Iran. On a stone inscription of the King Darius (522-486 B.C.) the nation of the Haruavat-is appears among the 23 subject nations. The Persian sacred books of the Avesti (Vendidad) call that nation the Harahvaiti. The provinces settled by that nation encompassed in those times the southern half of modern south Afghanistan, the whole of Baluchistan and the eastern part of modern Iran. In that ancient province ought we to look for the paleo-fatherland of the modern Croats." (Mandic 1970, Chapter 1)

 

'Dobra' is a river which flows throughout the lands of Croatia and a name which is said to come from the Celtic 'dubron' whose meaning is 'water' and this comes from 'doab' a word from Hindi whose meaning is water ( ab ) on both sides ( do ) as in an 'island' which in turn comes from 'dvipa' a word from Sanskrit meaning water ( ap ) on both sides ( dvi ) as in an 'island' and also the source of those white and shining cliffs of 'Dover'.

 

'Dragonja' is a river which flows throughout the lands of Croatia whose name was originally 'argaon' sharing the same root as Jason and the 'argonauts' which is 'arg' whose meaning is 'shiny' 'white' 'silver' and this is cognate with 'Arjuna' a famous name from the Vedas and Sanskrit whose meaning is 'shining' 'white' 'silver' and also cognate with the country of 'Argentina'.

 

'Vuka' is a river which flows throughout the lands of Croatia whose language translates it as 'wolf' and this finds its origin within 'vrk' a word from the language of Sanskrit whose meaning is that which 'seizes' that which 'takes' and this expands to become 'vrka' whose meaning is that which 'tears' and that which is a 'wolf'.

 

Once again its interesting how Sanskrit manifests this meaning as 'vrka' means 'tearer' hence anything which tears and rips is known as a 'vrka' and so it comes to mean a 'jackal' a 'hyena' a 'warrior' a 'plough' a 'rat' a 'thunderbolt' a 'wolf' and a word which is found within the Ancient Rig Vedas which are some 6000 years old.

 

'Vrka' whose meaning is 'wolf' is also the source of 'wolf' as it travels to Iran to become 'verkho' to become the Slavic 'volk' to become the Indo/euro 'wolk' to become the word 'wolf' its also the source of 'Varkana' the Iranian land of the 'wolves' and its also the source of the Greek 'vrykolakas' and the Slavic 'varkolakas' a blood sucking vampire.

"The oldest actual contact, as the Zagreb linguist Radoslav Katicic has pointed out in a recent colloquy dedicated to Indo - Yugoslav relations, is to be found within the primeval religion of the Slavs, which was by origin Indian, partly through Persian intermediation. However this fact, proven by the analysis of the expressions for deities, is common to all Slavonic people". India and the Yugoslavs - Ivan Slamnig.

'Ruda' is a river which flows upon the lands of Croatia whose language translates 'ruda' as 'ore' and this seems to have originally been 'copper ore' which is why its called 'ruda' as its describing the colour 'red' its origin being the Indo - euro 'reudh' whose meaning is 'red' and this is very much related to 'rudh' and 'rudhira' words from the language of Sanskrit whose meaning is 'red'.

 

We also find the river 'Kupa' which flows across the lands of Croatia and once again its a word which is found within the language of Sanskrit where 'Kupa' bears the meaning of that which is a 'well' and that which is to be found within the midst of a 'river'.

 

  

 

“The original name of the Indo/Iranian Goddess was Sarasvati ( she who possesses waters ). In India she continued to be worshipped by this name, which she gave there to a small but very holy river in Madhyadesa ( Punjab ) whereas in Iran Sarasvati became, by normal sound changes, Harahvati, a name preserved in the region called in Avestan Harakhvaiti and known to the Greeks as Anacosia, a region rich in rivers and lakes." Mary Boyce.

 

"Originally, Harahvati was the personification of the great river which flows down from the high Hara into the sea Vourukasa, and is the source of all the waters of the world, and just as the wandering Iranians called the great mountains near which they lived Hara, they gave Harahvaitis name to the life giving rivers and their Indian cousins did the same”  - Mary Boyce  -  History of Zoroastrianism.

 

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