Glimpses from Indian Naval History: Geography of Seafaring and Mythography of Prohibitions

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Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2023-11-14 DOI:10.1177/03769836231209213

Eugenia Vanina

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Abstract

Many dharmaśāstra texts, starting from the most famous, the Manusmr + ti, declare sea voyage to be sinful and polluting for a Hindu. At the same time, from remote antiquity, Hindus from various castes, including Brahmans, had actively traversed the seas to the west, south and east of India for the purposes of trade, war, spiritual guidance, adventures and so on. This article seeks to review the geography of ancient and mediaeval Indian seafaring (in which Hindus played a significant role) and, more importantly, to discover why, in colonial India, the notion of sea travel being prohibited to Hindus became widely established, so that the descendants of the merchants who had operated from Aden to the Indonesian and Chinese ports would excommunicate their young caste fellows who desirous to study abroad.

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从印度海军历史一瞥:航海地理学和禁酒神话

许多dharmaśāstra文本，从最著名的手稿开始，宣称海上航行对印度教徒来说是罪恶和污染的。与此同时，从遥远的古代开始，来自不同种姓的印度教徒，包括婆罗门，为了贸易、战争、精神指导、冒险等目的，积极地穿越海洋到印度的西部、南部和东部。本文旨在回顾古代和中世纪印度航海的地理情况(印度教徒在其中发挥了重要作用)，更重要的是，发现为什么在殖民时期的印度，禁止印度教徒出海旅行的概念被广泛确立，这样，从亚丁到印度尼西亚和中国港口经营的商人的后代就会将渴望出国留学的年轻种姓同胞逐出教会。

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