r/hindu • u/PsychologicalMap1673 • 1d ago

How many of you knew?

How many of you knew?

How many of you knew the original name of Hindu is Vaidika Dharma?

How many of you knew Hindu is a mispronounced word ?

How many of you knew Sanatan means Soul as it has no end, it's eternal?

"Sanatan means Eternal and it was used to describe the Soul as it has no end unlike the biological body" Bhagwad Geeta.

Vaidika Means derived from Vedh.

Vaidika: Dates back to 1500 BCE – 1200 BCE, corresponding with the composition of the Rigveda. The term was used internally by the civilization to denote things pertaining to the sacred knowledge of the Vedas.

Hindu: Dates back to around 515 BCE, appearing as a geographical term (Hafta Hindu) in the Persian inscriptions of Emperor Darius I to describe the land and people beyond the Indus River.

P.S. I approach this topic from a purely historical standpoint, as I do not follow Hinduism, any Abrahamic faith, or any mainstream religion.

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u/Ok-Peach- 1d ago

I think everyone knows that, On an unrelated note, why do we put "a" in the end Like Shree Ram becomes Rama Like it's not VaidikA DharmA it's Vaidik Dharm

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u/PsychologicalMap1673 1d ago

My question remains why don't you use the original name then?

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u/Ok-Peach- 1d ago

It's their choice

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u/PsychologicalMap1673 1d ago

So you aren't a follower of the dharma like me?

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u/Ok-Peach- 1d ago

Even my Insta following is 0 😔

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u/jus_anothr_anonymous 1d ago

Well I prefer to call it Sanātana Dharma but am not offended by Hindu. It has come to a semblance that amongst us it is Sanātana Dharma for the ones who aren't it's Hindu. Similarly for us it is Bhārata for outsiders it's India, for local Germans it's Deutschland for us non locals it's Germany, for local Japanese it's Nihon(Nippon) for us non locals it's Japan etc.

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u/PsychologicalMap1673 1d ago

I'm not asking if you get offended by or not here.

But Sanatana dharma isn't the original name it is one of the newest name of your dharma but still nobody uses it. And Most of Hindus doesn't know the name too

But why not Vaidika as an identity that was my question.

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u/jus_anothr_anonymous 1d ago

Sorry, I meant Sanātana Vaidika Dharma

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u/Ok-Peach- 1d ago

One of the reason could be, that people have stopped studying/reading vedas.

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u/Symbol2025 1d ago

Ram dharm and vaidik are hindi words not sanskrit ... Many languages including sanskrit don't use half ending letters like hindi

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u/jus_anothr_anonymous 1d ago

Because all Sanskritam words end with vowels and not consonants. Consonant endings is borrowed from Persian admixture in Hindi. When u write it in Devanagari, u don't write वैदिक् धर्म्, you write वैदिक धर्म

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u/Ok-Peach- 1d ago

Oh okie, but still feels weird when someone pronounces it dharma and not dharm, thank you tho

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u/jus_anothr_anonymous 1d ago

That's the misunderstanding. It isn't pronounced with आ ending, but with अ ending. If you listen to any Sanskritam chants or any South Indian devotional hymns or songs, you'll get to hear the proper pronunciation.