Anjar is an interesting world heritage site of Lebanon that identifies itself with the ancient Anjana forest and the Sakyan settlement in the area on the bank of the river Koa; the latter identifies the river Dio as same as the river Indus on whose bank then existed the palace of Dido where Aenean arrived after the war of Troy. It was the country of the Lavanas whose three sons according to Bible were called Kohathites, Murrarites and Gerrahites.
It is very clear that while Lebanon’s root is in ‘Lava’(brother of Cush) or ‘Lavana’, Anjar whose other name is Gerrha finds its root in ‘Gerrahites’ of the Bible.
Most of the institutional terms of world religions carry equal meanings because of their common geographical origin. Like Church History, history of Caliphates is hidden in the names of its various members; their names collectively show not only their Islamic past, but also give a pictorial note of the whole of the ‘inhabited world’ with which they were then hereditarily associated with. Scholars have not looked into this aspect of humans’ past where lives the ancient world in a brilliant expression of its peoples’ wisdom of identifying them through their religions’ names.
Caliph finds its root in Kalapa(of Indian religious traditions), one of the very interesting place in the ancient world which identifies the hermitage of Sage Kapila(also Kophe) who was a member of the House of Cadmus of the Greeks. History of Islam of the 8th c A.D. describes the land where Prophet Mohammad was born; where the Quran was written, and where the ‘holy wars’ as mentioned in the Quran, were fought. Historic descriptions of the holy-text never identify its inherent places either with the present places in the Arabic world or in the Middle East.
Unesco sees Anjar world heritage site linked with Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid ibn Abel Malek of the 8th c A.D.; according to it, ‘Anjar is an example of an inland commercial centre, at the crossroads of two important routes: one leading from Beirut to Damascus and the other crossing the Bekaa and leading from Homs to Tiberiade. ….the great palace of the Caliph and the Mosque in the South-East quarter occupies the highest part of the site, while the small palaces (harems) and the baths are located in the North-East quarter to facilitate the functioning and evacuation of waste waters’.
Anjar is also known as Haosh Mousa, a town of Lebanon located in Bekaa Valley. In whatever way one may look at this heritage site of Anjar, it identifies ancient Anjana in Saketa; Haosh Mousa means ‘Urasa Major’ or the Great Bear(the Saptarsi Mndala of Indian astronomical sciences); this happens to identify the ancient Ujjain along with the Lavana island and the ancient Mecca(Badr, and Baku), and ancient Midina or Medina. All of them stand on a straight line. The greatest mistake of our time is that the academic scholarship utterly failed to identify Mecca, Badr, Medina, Uhud, and Hazra which are geographically related to each other in a defined plain. Bekaa Valley marks the ancient Baku(name of the place near Badr as same as Badrika of other religions; Makka is the name of the God in Baku. But scholars made them different, and found Badr, Makka or Mecca, and Baku different. Similarly Uhud and Medina are almost the same or neighbourly to each other like the Little Finger and the Middle Finger; but they were treated differently.
Present Lebanon and Anjar thus are the ‘second settlements’ of the migrants. And the history of Islam in 8th c A.D, relates to the original land of the Quran near City of Sun and Kalap or Caliph near Medina.
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