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Never. Ah. This is in human history. For millennia, it has been a credo for human civilization and culture. Today, the subcontinent hosts over 1.7 billion people, which is more than all of Europe, North America, and South America. All within the confines of only five countries, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan. The largest by far is the country of India, with a population of over 1.3 billion people alone, while Pakistan has a population of over 210 million. And Bangladesh isn't far behind with over 160 million inhabitants. Because this land has had such a rich and extended history, it's also had a number of different names given to it by the people living here. But if we look at names used for the land by outsiders, we can see that all of these names have something in common. Generally, almost every single one of these begins either with a hymn or hymn sound, and either hymns or at least features a do-or-tya sound. If you put these two aspects together, one combination is India, the name the English-speaking world knows. But maybe more interestingly, if you put the other factors together, you'll get Hindu, which many might know as another name used to describe India. This not only reveals that these two words are related, but in fact have the same origins and mean virtually the same thing. Take Hindu-Stan, for example. The name given to India by the Muslim Mughal conquerors in the 11th century. By selecting this name, we get Hindu and Sam. Sam is the same as this name in the end up. What's up, Sam? Muslim influenced countries end with Sam. So then the Hindu-Stan basically means land of the Hindu. Looking at India, we can do the same thing. Ind and Ia. Ia is also just a common ending in Latin to mean land up. And that's why so many places end with Ia as well. So India basically means the land which we come to, which we just saw, means Hindu. The modern Chinese name for India is even more simple, Yindu, which, yeah, just derives from Hindu. I can keep going, but basically what I'm getting at is India's name is just the land of the Hindu in essentially every language from outside the subcontinent. So then who are the Hindu? Well, the Hindus weren't really a unified people group. There was never a Hindu empire or anything. Of course, there were empires consisting of Hindus, but that's never really how they were identified. More so, being Hindu was a designation for where these people lived. The original name Hindu was applied to those who lived along the northern part of what they called the Siddhu River. Yeah, it's a people group and a belief system. This river was not only the starting point for the rest of Indian civilization to spring from, but it was also necessary to cross to enter the rest of India from the west. So when the Achaemenid Empire came to control these lands from the west, they used the name of this important river to refer to the entire land and the people who lived here. And in their language, the Sindhu River became the Hindu River. And on the other side of the empire were the neighboring Greeks, and to them, Hindu turned into Hindus. And finally, this was passed to the Romans who turned it into Indus. And that's what the English-speaking world knows the river as today. So if this was the Indus River to the Romans, then the land around it became the land of the Indus, India. Okay, so India came from Indus, which came from Hindu, which came from Sindhu, the original name for this river. But then where did Sindhu come from? Well, Sindhu is originally a... I feel like I'm in school. I need to take a note. I'm one of the people who settled here. And in Sanskrit, Sindhu was used to describe any large body of water. And I guess that technically means India and all other forms of it mean the land of water, which doesn't really make any sense if there's a lot of water, then if it's not land, it's water. But yeah, that's how India got its name. Well, let's... Surrounded by water. Hinduism didn't arise until months later with perhaps its first usage in 14th century Persian texts. Hindu, we already know, but Islam in English represents ideas, philosophies, and theories. It came to English via the French Kismé, which came from the Latin Kismas, which of course got its beginnings from the Greek Kismos. Yeah, of course, of course. So we have to describe the unique ideas, philosophies, and theories of the Hindu people. It became Hinduism, the ideas of the Hindu. And that's how their religion got its name. An important aspect of Hinduism is karma, which essentially is the belief that the actions someone takes now influence how they fare in the future, with good deeds generating good results in return and bad deeds creating more misfortune down the road. A good example of this karma is my Patreon. I owe the man which in turn resulted you. Seamless. Oh, wow. Seamless. Wow. That was a good integration. I'm not even mad. That was a good integration. Thank you to those who helped keep this operation going. I hope we do this again. That was a very Corbin-esque thing to do. That was... Very Corbin-esque. I was like, oh! This is so interesting! And then he go... Bam, Patreon! That was slick. Ah. That seemed like a good video. I mean it seemed like it was smart So you guys could tell us if it was actually correct. Yeah, it seemed like it was but once again, we're dumb Well, what I know exactly never been there. She's dumb. You will love You were freaking love India. Yeah, you you will love India. You'll love all parts of India Even parts we haven't been to we've only been to leave in the five parts. Yeah Yeah, you will I know you Yes, the only place that Corbin hasn't been that I've been is is coconut Yeah Is it by driving flying? They're on opposite coasts. Yeah, how far is there as far as New York is from LA? Well, not a mile. Why is it only three hours? It's East it's East and West coast So Mumbai would be like LA and Calcutta would be New York, but it's half the distance It's like 1700 miles. I think it's about three hour flight. It is it's like it's it's as far Mumbai is the Calcutta what we are to like Dallas Yeah But they're the farthest coasts, but actually India is actually as long as Canada is to the bottom of Mexico Yeah, the top of Canada to the bottom of Mexico is how long they are, but they're not as wide as we are The the thing and I hope you'll I hope you'll see the video of it at some point is the extraordinary diversity in culture and Biodiversity and geography it is the most extraordinarily diverse place Most people Americans especially think of India and they get stereotypes in their mind They get like people piled on trains cows walking in the streets and dusty dirty roads That's the stereotype. It's Absolutely the opposite of all that Water when you were there Calcutta's on the water and Mumbai is on the water pretty yeah, but there's some other places Down in the south like Goa and northeast up in Assam you will It's very wet like somebody we know You