Here are just some examples of Russian toponyms (and in general there are thousands of such examples), which are 100% identical to Sanskrit.
Angara – a river in Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai.
Arya – Nizhny Novgorod settlement, a river in Sverdlovsk region.
Bolshaya Indra – a lake in Sverdlovsk Oblast.
Ganges – a river in Yakutia (there are dozens of lakes and rivers with this name in different regions of Russia).
Kama River and its tributaries Kryshneva and Khareva – Perm Krai and Udmurtia.
Moksha – rivers in Mordovia and Ryazan region.
Padma – name of a river and a lake in the Arkhangelsk region.
Ravan – a river south of Lake Ladoga.
Sita – a river in Khabarovsk territory.
Soma – a river in Kirov oblast.
Tara – a river in Omsk region.
Yama – a river in Magadan Oblast.
Note that many Russian historians consider all these toponyms to be Finno-Ugric. BUT !
- Finno-Ugric people came to these territories only 1500 years ago, and Proto-Indo-Europeans (ancestors of Russians, who actually spoke Proto-Sanskrit) have been living in these territories for more than 10,000 years.
- In Finno-Ugric lexicon – there are no such names. And, in order to pull at least some coincidences, Russian historians twist these names on 30-70 %.
The epic Mahabharata, Book of the Forest.
Few people know that the events described in the epic “Mahabharata” (according to Indian Sanskritologists, in particular B.G. Tilak). They took place several thousand years ago in the territory of the modern Russian North, more precisely, in the interfluve of the Volga and Oka rivers.
In “Mahabharata” there is a chapter “Forest”, which describes in great detail the terrain where the historical battle of Pandavas and Kauravas took place. What is interesting is that most of the rivers mentioned in this chapter are not found in India.
But, if we look at a geographical map of the Volga-Oka basin of Russia, we will see the following correspondences:
RIVERS IN THE MAHABHARATA / RIVERS IN THE OKA BASIN
