When Huns attacked Varanasi

The Huna conquest of India reached its peak when Toramana conquered a significant part of the Ganga Valley. In this video, we will look at the history of the Huna conquest of the Ganga Valley.
Reference
1. The Alkan A Hunnic People in South Asia by Hans T Bakker
2. Monuments of Hope, Gloom, and Glory by Hans T. Bakker
3. THE COINS AND HISTORY OF TORAMANA by Pankaj Tandon
4. Hunnic Peoples in Central and South Asia Sources for their Origin and History
5. Gupt Samraye by Dr. P. L. Gupta
6. Excavations at Kausambi by G.R. Sharma
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  • @anirudh177
    @anirudh177 Жыл бұрын

    Book recommendations for reading on Huns:- 1. The Alkhan: A Hunnic People in South Asia by Hans Bakker 2. Hunnic Peoples in Central and South Asia: Sources for their Origin and History by Daniel Balogh 3. The Hepthaltites: Archaeological and Historical Analysis by Aydogdy Kurbanov 4. A Study on the Kidarites by Xiang Wan 5. The Huns by Hyun Jin Kim

  • @dhruvsingh7215
    @dhruvsingh7215 Жыл бұрын

    I am waiting for King yashodharman

  • @user-lm8zd9kd1w

    @user-lm8zd9kd1w

    11 ай бұрын

    Mee too

  • @manrupjps7e323

    @manrupjps7e323

    5 ай бұрын

    Me waiting for prakashdharman

  • @vyasakrishna8801
    @vyasakrishna8801 Жыл бұрын

    This series on the Huns has probably been the best on your channel so far. Every episode has an intriguing cliffhanger at the end. Probably I feel this way because I know very little about the Huns and this period in general...

  • @dhruvsingh7215

    @dhruvsingh7215

    Жыл бұрын

    Do you want to know what happened

  • @vyasakrishna8801

    @vyasakrishna8801

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dhruvsingh7215 i can wait for the next episode 😁

  • @anirudh177

    @anirudh177

    Жыл бұрын

    Book recommendations for reading on Huns:- 1. The Alkhan: A Hunnic People in South Asia by Hans Bakker 2. Hunnic Peoples in Central and South Asia: Sources for their Origin and History by Daniel Balogh 3. The Hepthaltites: Archaeological and Historical Analysis by Aydogdy Kurbanov 4. A Study on the Kidarites by Xiang Wan 5. The Huns by Hyun Jin Kim

  • @daneilpatro2776

    @daneilpatro2776

    Жыл бұрын

    Share playlist please

  • @igormalic743
    @igormalic743 Жыл бұрын

    These are my favourite topics from history as they are always overlooked and obscure 😭 but soo fascinating nonetheless.

  • @shekharb2981
    @shekharb2981 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the excellent well studied narration of the mostly hidden period of history of that particular time. The term Tamgha remained peculiar in the subsequent Turkshahi & Hindushahi rulers of Afghanistan of the later period.

  • @JayVardhanSingh

    @JayVardhanSingh

    Жыл бұрын

    We don't know what the Huns called Tamgha. So here, scholars use the term which was used in the later period.

  • @kamath234
    @kamath234 Жыл бұрын

    I love your series! There is so much interesting to learn in Indian History

  • @JayVardhanSingh

    @JayVardhanSingh

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad you like them!

  • @theybecameus

    @theybecameus

    Жыл бұрын

    @@JayVardhanSingh do you believe aryan invasion theory is true jay?

  • @manrupjps7e323

    @manrupjps7e323

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@theybecameusits true af

  • @MuhammadSabir-vi9qf
    @MuhammadSabir-vi9qf Жыл бұрын

    your programme is appreciated, in the way you explain.

  • @jimjiminy5836
    @jimjiminy5836 Жыл бұрын

    Very interesting. I love your accent also. Keep up the good work brother.

  • @kraut1982
    @kraut1982 Жыл бұрын

    Great content especially images at 3:10.👍

  • @debarghyabhattacharyya5069
    @debarghyabhattacharyya5069 Жыл бұрын

    Please make video on how these foreighners like sakas and hunas assimilated into indian culture and society

  • @JayVardhanSingh

    @JayVardhanSingh

    Жыл бұрын

    I will make a video on the religion of the Hunas. This will be covered in that video

  • @Ak-zw1mq
    @Ak-zw1mq Жыл бұрын

    Amazing series ❤

  • @tanned06
    @tanned06 Жыл бұрын

    Great intro to the invasion of the Great White Hun. I would be pleased if you'd shed light on how this nomad invader may have implicated in the decline of Buddhism which began more noticeably during the time of Gupta. By the way, Xuan Zang is pronounced as 'Sh-yen' Zāng.

  • @JayVardhanSingh

    @JayVardhanSingh

    Жыл бұрын

    thanks for pointing out the correct pronunciation.

  • @ajaymalolan1497
    @ajaymalolan1497 Жыл бұрын

    Great video. Suggestion: adding a visual time line of sorts would be nice.

  • @JayVardhanSingh

    @JayVardhanSingh

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the suggestion. The problem here is that we don't have exact timeline in topics like these. We don't know when exactly the conquest of these two cities took place.

  • @ajaymalolan1497

    @ajaymalolan1497

    Жыл бұрын

    @@JayVardhanSingh ok 👍🏻

  • @jayastubanerjee1998
    @jayastubanerjee1998 Жыл бұрын

    First comment ❤, eagerly waiting for your videos as always we are.

  • @raginisingh2251
    @raginisingh2251 Жыл бұрын

    What is Manju shree moolkalp and ghosita ram,today I know very well, both are very important in history becoz many times asked in one day exam

  • @DHARABHISHEK
    @DHARABHISHEK Жыл бұрын

    You are talking about toramana death but,have not mentioned bhanugupta and his clash with toramana over malwa?You have also not mentioned Toramana's defeat by prakashdharma aulikara.

  • @JayVardhanSingh

    @JayVardhanSingh

    Жыл бұрын

    The end of Toramana is not discussed in this video. The next video will be on that.

  • @jaatram6606
    @jaatram6606 Жыл бұрын

    0:02 According historical records in 500ce Pushyabhuti Power emerged near Thanesar it's fact or mythical character ?? / Or may be Nāravardhana is 1st ruler of Empire of Harsha in 525ce approx or 1st ruler Pushyabhuti 500ce ? But we know that defeat of the Huna emperor Mihirakula by King Yashodharman at Sondani in 528 CE

  • @JayVardhanSingh

    @JayVardhanSingh

    Жыл бұрын

    The Pushyabhuti will be discussed in a future video.

  • @raghunandan9290
    @raghunandan9290 Жыл бұрын

    Every foreign invaders who invaded India ,never obliterated our culture ,converted . They just merged and became one of us . But Islamic invaders were different. They just wiped away ,razed our civilization in various provinces

  • @gameruleworld.1889

    @gameruleworld.1889

    Жыл бұрын

    True kushans,huns and shakas were merged in our culture but the islamic kings were just demonic as hell

  • @Lmao69

    @Lmao69

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @gujjewman96

    @gujjewman96

    Жыл бұрын

    Huns and other nomadic invaders didn't had any organized religion so they easily assimilated into us. Same thing happened to Mongols and Turks, when they came into contact with Islam and middle East, they converted to Islam.

  • @codenamevisage

    @codenamevisage

    Жыл бұрын

    Are you kidding me ? Literally in this video, Jay says huns burnt whole cities to the ground. Hun invasions were a major contributor of Buddhism. I'm sure Buddhists can make same argument as you did.

  • @TheWaleedKhalid

    @TheWaleedKhalid

    5 ай бұрын

    Aryans the first invader brought Brahmanism in India and converted Indian polytheists into Brahmanical religion followers. Yet only Islam is to blame.

  • @theybecameus
    @theybecameus Жыл бұрын

    appreciate ur consistency

  • @akk7791
    @akk7791 Жыл бұрын

    Nice

  • @pradoshbiswas
    @pradoshbiswas2 ай бұрын

    The brick ruins show from 2:36 to 3:24 are very impressive - huge scale and size. Are they open for visiting? Where can we see them today?

  • @ChessShaastra
    @ChessShaastra Жыл бұрын

    It's not pronounced as Hans, But Huuns!

  • @sonups8483
    @sonups8483 Жыл бұрын

    Omg did they reach that distance 😳

  • @chandrabhushan8597

    @chandrabhushan8597

    Жыл бұрын

    Turks were always like that

  • @adwaitvedant3297

    @adwaitvedant3297

    Жыл бұрын

    @@chandrabhushan8597 Huns were proto turks..

  • @prateekrai6260

    @prateekrai6260

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@adwaitvedant3297proto Turks means?

  • @drshilpitiwari8826
    @drshilpitiwari8826 Жыл бұрын

    Why was the Buddhist monastery spared selectively?

  • @JayVardhanSingh

    @JayVardhanSingh

    Жыл бұрын

    No, there's no evidence that it was spared from destruction.

  • @hiteshsir0556
    @hiteshsir0556 Жыл бұрын

    Har har mahadev

  • @Deepak_Dhakad

    @Deepak_Dhakad

    Жыл бұрын

    Har har mahadev

  • @punitsingh9069
    @punitsingh906911 ай бұрын

    I have a very stupid question to ask, I dk if it has any connections or not l, so In Rajput, there are divisions by Kula which refers to the lineage and clan they used to belong to and There are many among them There are one particularly unique Huns Rajputs living in the, UP and Bihar region, and they also have different facial and physical characteristics like their eyes skin body structure are different there any way possible they could be connected in anyway or is it just the same name and different physical appearance is just a coincidence.

  • @JayVardhanSingh

    @JayVardhanSingh

    11 ай бұрын

    Hard to say as we don't have any full genetic profile of different Rajput clans.

  • @tavishbhadu493
    @tavishbhadu493 Жыл бұрын

    Hlo Would you please bring the series on origin of Martial races in India(especially Jats) because there is lot of confusion and also many scholars related it to indo synthians and with other invaders.

  • @user-fr2bu4bw5z

    @user-fr2bu4bw5z

    8 ай бұрын

    Jaat are scthyain

  • @zarrinqalam3298
    @zarrinqalam3298 Жыл бұрын

    Sir what was the religion of hunas?

  • @thinwhitedukerhapsody

    @thinwhitedukerhapsody

    Жыл бұрын

    Buddhism, Hinduism,shamanism

  • @royarnab26

    @royarnab26

    Жыл бұрын

    @@thinwhitedukerhapsody mixture of all including Zoroastrianism too... Worshipping fire.

  • @arnavpandey3779

    @arnavpandey3779

    Жыл бұрын

    The ones that invaded india worshipped lord shiva.

  • @varunsingla4718

    @varunsingla4718

    Жыл бұрын

    @@arnavpandey3779 The invading forces generally were following Shanamism initially, as they settled in Western Punjab many converted to Buddhism. Then later as they settled in North Western India some converted to Hinduism. They got culturally influenced by the region they occupied and adopted the religious/cultural practices of their subjects. This is in sharp contrast to islamic or european invaders who followed abrahamic religions. Most likely Tormana adopted Vaishnavism and his son Mihirkula followed Shaivism.

  • @JayVardhanSingh

    @JayVardhanSingh

    Жыл бұрын

    Will do a separate video on it.

  • @dpsharma8499
    @dpsharma8499 Жыл бұрын

    Pl write ganga plain not ganga valley

  • @sharadowasdr
    @sharadowasdr Жыл бұрын

    What was the religion of the invading Hunas ?

  • @Apex_Alpha53

    @Apex_Alpha53

    5 ай бұрын

    Hindu

  • @dilipsiroor9844
    @dilipsiroor9844 Жыл бұрын

    Hunts

  • @rajashashankgutta4334
    @rajashashankgutta4334 Жыл бұрын

    First comment

  • @MuhammadSabir-vi9qf
    @MuhammadSabir-vi9qf Жыл бұрын

    majority people came from euroasia caucasu steppe.

  • @parjanyashukla176
    @parjanyashukla17610 ай бұрын

    So it's actually the Huns who destroyed the Hindu-Buddhist civilization and not Turks.

  • @jyotirmayamohanty5723

    @jyotirmayamohanty5723

    9 ай бұрын

    I also believe so.

  • @vitthapx

    @vitthapx

    3 ай бұрын

    No, they adopted it and became part of Ganga/Hindu civilization. Thats why we cant differentiate thwm from us. They got assimilated and adopted culture and religion.

  • @parjanyashukla176

    @parjanyashukla176

    3 ай бұрын

    @@vitthapx What do you mean by "Ganga/Hindu civilization". This is the first time I have heard such a term. 'Hindu' comes from Sindhu and not Ganga. How can a group of people who actually destroyed Gangetic plains Guptas, and against whom Guptas struggled during all their rule, be considered to have become "part of us"? And you obviously have no idea about the brutality of invasions prior to Turks and why Indic spiritual process had become so obsessed with moksha/nirvana and not really spiritual attainment (like for example, how Ravana of Lanka did). Considering every fool to be a "Hindu" will make us weaker and not stronger. This was a British conspiracy, it did not emerge from within. Two major invasions - by Greco-Macedonians under Alexander and Huns - precede Turkic invasions and were a major cause of destruction of real Vedic society which modern Hindus have no real clue about. Most Hindus are just for namesake only. Turks too were Central Asian nomads like Huns, at least to me it is not surprising at all, why these invasions happened.

  • @theybecameus
    @theybecameus Жыл бұрын

    do you believe aryan invasion theory is true jay?

  • @aryanjaiswal8935
    @aryanjaiswal8935 Жыл бұрын

    I think even the later Gupta rulers were atleast more powerful than the later Mughals...what do you think bro?

  • @JayVardhanSingh

    @JayVardhanSingh

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, they were certainly more powerful than the Later Mughals.

  • @Lmao69

    @Lmao69

    Жыл бұрын

    The later mughals were not even powerful enough to administrat delhi. The later guptas atleast were able to rule eastern india for atleast 100 years till the death of mahasengupta

  • @aryanjaiswal8935

    @aryanjaiswal8935

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Lmao69 Yo u Avik Sarakar???

  • @prasadsirdesai8349
    @prasadsirdesai8349 Жыл бұрын

    Why u talk like foreigner Kosambi not Koshambi Second u are not telling us after Kushan Kanishka who was there they are Kanishka I Kanishka 2 and then Huvishka is there after Vasudev what happen to them u are not giving detail s

  • @Theblessedone11
    @Theblessedone11 Жыл бұрын

    Hey Jay, can you clear this up? there a belief that the tomar rajputs trace back their lineage to the Huna king tormana, is there any historical source to support this claim??

  • @JayVardhanSingh

    @JayVardhanSingh

    Жыл бұрын

    I am not aware of this.

  • @dazzlinghen4225
    @dazzlinghen4225 Жыл бұрын

    When decline of Huns happened ?

  • @JayVardhanSingh

    @JayVardhanSingh

    Жыл бұрын

    will be discussed in a later video. But around the middle of 7th century AD.

  • @vyjayantitripathi9976
    @vyjayantitripathi9976 Жыл бұрын

    Are these armies of huns came with women

  • @JayVardhanSingh

    @JayVardhanSingh

    Жыл бұрын

    I don't think so.

  • @rowlattgamer3355
    @rowlattgamer335511 ай бұрын

    Gupta forced to pay tribute to huns . Sassanids : first time

  • @thestormbreaker6221

    @thestormbreaker6221

    3 ай бұрын

    😂😂

  • @sanasama2209
    @sanasama22092 ай бұрын

    Wtf is a Ganga valley 😅 you meant Plains 🤔

  • @baloch8961
    @baloch8961 Жыл бұрын

    Huns so similar to hundu

  • @Lmao69

    @Lmao69

    Жыл бұрын

    Kuch bhi 😂😂

  • @milindpanho

    @milindpanho

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Lmao69but we can say Mathura’s hindu descenders of Huns lord Krisna and gopia 😂

  • @Lmao69

    @Lmao69

    Жыл бұрын

    @@milindpanho and your mom is the descendent of Mia Khalifa 🤣🤣

  • @MuhammadSabir-vi9qf
    @MuhammadSabir-vi9qf Жыл бұрын

    pashtuns are saka aryans or white huns/hephthelites?.peshawar.

  • @MuhammadSabir-vi9qf

    @MuhammadSabir-vi9qf

    Жыл бұрын

    @tpr425 yes you are right but i questioed about ancestoy.i am sure we are saka/scychian but white huns/hephthelites and aryans indent theories are also there in indopak.majority races moved here from euroasia steppe, area around caspian sea, also called scythian sea.

  • @Narimann

    @Narimann

    Жыл бұрын

    Nowadays pashtuns are saka, interestingly last week they were jew, before that turk, last year arab

  • @user-kt3jn7wx5f

    @user-kt3jn7wx5f

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Narimann 😂✌️

  • @Ak-zw1mq
    @Ak-zw1mq Жыл бұрын

    Please continue this series till the last gupta king who was defeated by bakhtiyar khilji in 1200 something

  • @Lmao69

    @Lmao69

    Жыл бұрын

    Gupta dynasty ended after the 7th century ad and you are talking about 1200 ce 🤣

  • @yuvarudra6602
    @yuvarudra6602 Жыл бұрын

    Very interestin. Subscribed to ur 2nd channel. All the best for ur PHD bro. 😊👍 and become a great archeologist. (dont mind the spellin. 😜). It was good idea to start youtube channel so u can explain to others & u can improve ur studies too. So by the time u finish ur studies & go for an interview u can be confident. 😊👍 Well done.

  • @JayVardhanSingh

    @JayVardhanSingh

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you bhai

  • @yuvarudra6602

    @yuvarudra6602

    Жыл бұрын

    @@JayVardhanSingh welcome bhai. 😊😊😊👍👍👍

  • @MuhammadSabir-vi9qf
    @MuhammadSabir-vi9qf Жыл бұрын

    thor in pashto mean black, look pashtun goy.

  • @nasirhussain7826
    @nasirhussain78262 ай бұрын

    They are tomras not foreigner

  • @rajakc1514
    @rajakc1514 Жыл бұрын

    Are Guptas Biharis?

  • @drg598

    @drg598

    7 ай бұрын

    Purvanchalis (eastern UP)

  • @Apex_Alpha53

    @Apex_Alpha53

    5 ай бұрын

    Bengalis