Ancient African Kings Of India

By
Dr. Clyde Winters
Ethiopians have had very intimate relations with Indians. In fact, in antiquity the Ethiopians
ruled much of India. These Ethiopians were called the Naga. It was the Naga who created
Sanskrit.
A reading of ancient Dravidian literature which dates back to 500 BC, gives us considerable
information on the Naga. In Indian tradition the Naga won central India from the Villavar
(bowmen) and Minavar (fishermen).
The Naga were great seamen who ruled much of India, Sri Lanka and Burma. To the Aryans they
described as half man and snake. The Tamil knew them as warlike people who used the bow and
noose.
The earliest mention of the Naga, appear in the Ramayana , they are also mentioned in the
Mahabharata. In the Mahabharata we discover that the
Naga had the capital city in the Dekkan, and other cities spread between the Jumna and Ganges
as early as 1300 BC. The Dravidian classic, the Chilappathikaran made it clear that the first great
kingdom of India was
Naganadu.
The Naga probably came from Kush-Punt/Ethiopia. The Puntites were the greatest sailors of the
ancient world. In the Egyptian inscriptions there is mention of the Puntite ports of Outculit,
Hamesu and Tekaru, which corresponds to Adulis, Hamasen and Tigre.
In Sumerian text, it is claimed that the Puntites traded with the people of the Indus Valley or
Dilmun. According to S.N. Kramer in The Sumerians, part of Punt was probably called Meluhha,
and Dilmun was probably the ancient name of the Indus Valley. (Today some scholars maintain
that Oman, where we find no ancient cities was Dilmun and the Indus Valley may have been
Meluhha).
Ancient Ethiopian traditions support the rule of Puntites or Ethiopians of India. In the Kebra
Nagast, we find mention of the Arwe kings who ruled India. The founder of the dynasty was Za
Besi Angabo. This dynasty according to the Kebra Nagast began around 1370 BC. These rulers
of India and Ethiopia were called Nagas. The Kebra Nagast claims that Queen Makeda had
servants and merchants; they traded for her at sea and on land in the Indies and Aswan. It also
says that her son Ebna Hakim or Menelik I, made a campaign in the Indian Sea; the king of India
made gifts and donations and prostrated himself before him. It is also said that Menalik ruled an
empire that extended from the rivers of Egypt (Blue Nile) to the west and from the south Shoa to
eastern India, according to the Kebra
Nagast. The Kebra Nagast identification of an eastern Indian empre ruled by

the Naga, corresponds to the Naga colonies in the Dekkan, and on the East
coast between the Kaviri and Vaigai rivers.
The presence of Meluhhaites/ Puntites in India may expain the Greek tradition of Kusites ruling
India up to the Ganges. It would also explain the Aryan traditions of Mlechchas ( Sanskrit name
for some of the non-Aryan people) as one of the aboriginal groups of India. Many scholars
associate the name Mlechchas with Meluhha.
The major Naga tribes were the Maravar, Eyinar, Oliyar, Oviyar, Aru-Valur and Parathavar. The
Nagas resisted the invansion of the Cholas. In the Kalittokai IV,1-5, the Naga are described as
being of strong limbs and hardy frames and fierce looking tigers wearing long and curled locks
of hair. The Naga kings of Sri Lanka are mentioned in the: Mahawanso, and are said to have
later become Dravidians, as testified to by the names of these people: Naganathan, Nagaratnam,
Nagaraja and etc.
The major gift of the Naga to India was the writing system: Nagari. Nagari is the name for the
Sanskrit script. Over a hundred years ago Sir William Jones, pointed out that the ancient Ethiopic
and Sanskrit writing are one and the same.
William Jones, explained that the Ethiopian origin of Sanskrit was supported by the fact that both
writing systems the writing went from left to right and the vowels
were annexed to the consonants. Today Eurocentric scholars teach that Indians taught writing to
the Ethiopians, yet the name Nagari for Sanskrit betrays the Ethiopia origin of this form of
writing. Moreover, it is interesting to note that Sanskrit vowels: a,aa,,I,u,e,o, virama etc., are in
the same order as Geez.
The Ethiopian script has influenced many other writing systems. Y.M. Kobishnor, in the Unesco
History of Africa, maintains that Ethiopic was used as the model for Armenian writing, as was
many of the Transcaucasian scripts. Dravidian literature indicate that the Naga may have
introduced worship of Kali, the Serpent, Murugan and the Sun or Krishna. It is interesting to note
that a god called Murugan is worshipped by many people in East Africa.
It is interesting that Krishna, who was associated with the Sun, means Black, this is analogous to
the meaning of Khons of the Kushites. Homer, described Hercules as follows: Black he stood as
night his bow uncased, his arrow string for flight. This mention of arrows identifies the
Kushites as warriors who
used the bow, a common weapon of the Kushites and the Naga.

Kumarinadu
The Naga or Ethiopians were defeated by Dravidian speaking people from Kumarinadu.
Kamarinadu is suppose to have formerly existed as a large Island in the India ocean which
connected India with East Africa. This landmass is mentioned in the Silappadikaram, which said
that Kamarinadu was made up of seven nadus or regions. The Dravidian scholars Adiyarkunallar

and Nachinaar wrote about the ancient principalities of Tamilaham, which existed on
Kamarinadu.
Kumarinadu was ruled by the Pandyans/Pandians at Madurai before it
sunk beneath the sea. The greatest king of Kumarinadu was Sengoon.
According to Dravidian scholars the Pandyans worshipped the goddess Kumari Amman. This
Amman, probably corresponds to the ancient god Amon of the Kushites.
The Kalittokai 104, makes it clear that after the Pandyans were forced to migrate off their Island
home into South India, to compensate for the area lost to the great waves of the sea, King
Pandia without tiresome moved to the other countries and won them. Removing the emblems of
tiger (Cholas) and bow (Cheras) he, in their place inscribed his reputed emblem fish (Pandias)
and valiantly made his enemies bow to him.

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