Dear Friends,
Has anyone ever come across this parsing of 'Hindu' before? I was under the impression that 'Hindu' had an alternate etymology.
In Sanskrut, the word Hindu is broken up as hin + du. 'Hin' means to remove and 'du' means darkness. In other words, anyone who makes efforts to remove the darkness of spiritual ignorance (that is, a seeker), is a Hindu.
All the best,
Patrick McCartney
PhD Candidate
School of Culture, History & Language
College of the Asia-Pacific
The Australian National University
Canberra, Australia, 0200
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