know ”Bharat”

The following verse is available for this in the Brushpati Agama,
हिमालयं समारम्भ्य यावद् इन्दु सरोवरम् ।
तं देव निर्मित देशं, हिन्दुस्थानं प्रचक्षते ॥
That is, this land formed by the divine light from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean is called Hindustan. According to a tradition of this India, while taking a resolution, we use this word – Jambudweepe Bharatkhande (Bharatvarsha), which is related to the Indian territory. This is a discussion of ancient India, but it comes in the discussion of India from the present to 3000 years ago that in the last 2500 years, whatever invaders were Greeks (Roman Greeks), Yavanas, Huns, Shakas, Kushans, Syrians, Portuguese, French, Dutch Arabs, Turks, Tatars, Mughals, and Britishers came. All these have been described by all the historians of the world, but in all the books it is found that the invaders have attacked India, India. There will hardly be any book, in which it is described that these invaders invaded Afghanistan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, Pakistan, Maldives, or Bangladesh.
Along with geography, the scenario of the history of India is also unique. Who can say about continents like Africa, America, and Australia, that the history of Europe, which is called the center of modern civilization, is not as ancient as that of its own country India? China, although it is a bigger country than India and has an ancient civilization, its history of China has not changed as much as the history of India.
The Harappan culture is said to be the ancient civilization of India. Evidence of its expansion has been found up to Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh. Although the scripts found at Mohenjodaro and Harappa are yet to be deciphered, similarities and differences can be seen in the civilization spread throughout this northwestern India.
The nation is an eternal concept. Before independence, India was the most prosperous country on the whole earth. When India became a slave, then gradually the country got fragmented. The picture of India that we see at present is of a fragmented India. If we study the history of India before the reign of the Mughals and British, then India will be seen as a nation that had been guiding the world. Today we do not see the history of that period. Today, if our India becomes united again, then peace can be established within the whole world.
Akhand Bharat

The history of the creation of Pakistan and Bangladesh is well known, but we should also know that the year 1947, was the 24th partition of the vast Bharatvarsha in the last 2500 years. In ancient times we are the inhabitants of Jambudweep, which is today called Asia Island, and Indu Sarovar, which is today called the Indian Ocean. The Himalayas Mountains are located almost in the middle of this Asia. The world’s highest peak in the Himalaya Mountains is Sagarmatha, Gaurishankar, which was renamed Everest by the British rulers in 1835, changing its antiquity and identity. The land on which we are residents of the nation, that land is described in the form of almost synonymous verses in Agni, Vayu, and Vishnu Purana.
उत्तरं यत् समुद्रस्य, हिमाद्रेश्चैव दक्षिणम्।
वर्षं तद् भारतं नाम, भारती यत्र संतति ॥
That is, the land which is north of the Indian Ocean and south of the Himalayas Mountains is called India, and the society there is recognized by the name Indian.
Here a question arises when about how these territories were enslaved and become independent. Everyone knows the history of the creation of Pakistan and Bangladesh. The rest of the history is not known. The year 1947 marks the 24th partition of the vast Bharatvarsha in the last 2500 years. The British came to India as a merchant in the form of the East India Company about 350 years ago, then gradually became the ruler, and then the partition of India by them from 1857 to 1947 is condemnable.
Afghanistan was established on 26 May 1876 by an agreement between the Russian and British rulers (India) to establish a buffer state i.e. political country between the two powers by the name of Afghanistan. At the same time, Prithvi Narayan Shah organized more than 46 small and big states in Central Himalayas and organized a state named Nepal. The British deliberately made a treaty with the hill-kings of that time at a place called Sugauli in present-day Bihar in the year 1904 and made the second partition of India.
On the other hand, in 1906, Sikkim and Bhutan, which were small lands of the society mixed with Vedic-Buddhist beliefs separated and divided India by keeping the residents under their direct control. In 1914, considering Tibet as only one party, an agreement was reached between the Chinese imperial government and the British rulers who occupied a large part of India. Recognizing Tibet as a buffer state between India and China, it was decided to draw a line to divide the Himalayas. In 1937, Myanmar was recognized as a separate political country and in 1939, Sri Lanka was recognized as a separate political country. As soon as Myanmar and Sri Lanka were given separate existence, the conversion which was ready earlier was also given more expansion and strength in these countries. Many places in Myanmar, especially Rangoon, have also been used by the British as prisons to punish patriotic Indians for Kalapani.
Today even though we are politically separated, culturally we remain a united nation. The state is the political unit, while the nation is the cultural unit. India may be divided, but culturally we always live it and today when we imagine Akhand Bharat in our mind, first we will be culturally one and later politically. As it is natural to have night after day, it is also its destiny that India should be united again.
There are many examples in the world, based on which we can think of making India united again; Whether it is a matter of reuniting East and West Germany by breaking down the Berlin Wall or the Jews getting their country after hundreds of years in the form of Israel. In this way, the dream of world peace will be realized only by a united India.
Vishnu Purana, also known as the Puranratna, or the gems of Puranas, is one among the eighteen major Indian Puranas. It is the sacred text of the Vaishnava branch of Hinduism. In this work Vishnu is praised and glorified as the highest being, as the one and only god, with whom Brahma and Lord Shiva are one, and as the creator and preserver of the world. Learn more: https://www.indianetzone.com/13/vishnu_purana.htm
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