Monthly Archives: May 2017

There is a tree in the Indian city,
The branches of which are creeping from city to city,
Forty lamps are on each branch,
A peacock only on one branch.

What does this old enigmatic quartet prompt us? What connected our forbear with the “Indian city”? What the peacock and the number “40” mean?

Had in Armenia been an Indian city…?

In our article we are trying to give the answers of these very questions, which came from ancient times.

Striving to find any historical hint connected with the name and the monument of Zorats Karer, all our surprise, during the researches we found out, that in the list of Armenians villages of Eruandhuni, there was a village named India.

In the explanatory dictionary of modern Armenian, after the explanation of the word “Indian”, there is the following quotation: “The negotiations between the Armenians and the Russian government over that issue were made with the help of Indian Israel Ori” and that was the next surprise for all of us.

Why we underlined the word “Indian” in the quotation above this? Our task is to grub and find out which place the name Hindustan “India” is being associated with.   Continue reading →