Vergil’s Aeneid is considered as an epic poem, and its hero Aeneas has been accepted by the academic world as responsible to hold the ancestral chain of the Roman nation.
Aeneas, to whom Venus bore by the famed Anchises, marks his birthplace at the Idaean shore. And the latter identifies the shore of the river Indus on whose bank the two villages, both Andes and Cisalpine are situated as Andia and as Sisupala. While Andia is neighbourly to the two villages Attalia and Herat or Hiradeipur on the right bank of this river, Sisupala village is neighbourly to identify the birthplace of Vergilius Maro on the left bank.
The whole story which Vergil describes in this epic poem keeps at its centre the region from where he was born. The poem similarly mentions name of Hesperia like Homer which was the other name for Caesarea, on the right bank of the river Indus where Attalia stands.
Like Alexander’s historians and Pliny, Vergil mentions Homer’s Troy as Tyre: Phoenician Dido who fled from Tyre to shun her brother’s hate, rules in Lavana island. Indian puranas take Lavana island as one of the eight sub-islands of the ancient world. Labanga seems to be its another name that identifies it with pepper. Dido addresses Aeneas as ‘Lord of Tyre’.
Aeneas sent Cyllenius to free the ports of the Punic land where Dido’s brother rules.
Ulysses’ return journey from Troy describes almost a similar journey like that of Aeneas to a certain point on various points of his halt on the western part of the ‘inhabited world’ where the river Indus flows which identifies the Lavana island with settlements of the Kohathies. Land of Lavana is seen through names of the three sons of Levi: the Kohathites, Gershonites, and Merarites. Dido’s Carthage is identifies Lavana island and the river Idaean where Lonagiri mouth if the river Indus now stands. On the bank of this river Kalinga was fought between Asoka and the Vespasians.
Aenea in Thrace, Pergamea in Crete and Buthrotum in Epirus put a geographical survey of places near various mouths of the river Indus. But they were driven away by bad omens and plagues. Harpies, the part woman and part bird of the ancient world, cursed these Trojans, who were the Arjuneyyas of Indian puranas. While ancient Ajodhya identifies the seat of its royal palace at Troy, identifying the plains of the river Sarju, same as Sajur Valley of the Bible, Rome on the bank of the river Indus, sees Rama’s birthplace near Hesperia, or Kesuria of Indian puranas.
Vergil mentions in the Aeneid that race of Alban fathers came to Rome to rule; Alban refers to Mt Alavi of Pali texts, Alburg of the Avesta, Alaba of Alexander’s historians, and Olebe of Homer’s epics. Junos chariot at Carthage marks ‘Achate’ means a ‘chaitya’, or a ‘Chariot’ and this identifies ‘Pallas fane’ where a ‘long procession go’. This is seat of Latona from where Latin language was born;
Hector’s brother Helenus prophesied that Aeneas should seek out the land of Hesperia, where his descendants would not only prosper, but in time would come to rule.
Juno raised a storm which drove Aeneas’ fleet back across the sea to Carthage. Sychaeus, husband of Dido, was murdered by Pygamalion.
When Jupiter sends Mercury to remind Aeneas of his duty and his destiny, he has no choice but to leave Carthage. Dido commits suicide predicting in her death throes eternal strife between Aeneas’ people, and hers. Aeneas then sailed towards Attalia in Hesperia.
Funeral games were held in Sicily in the honour of Aeneas’ father Anchises who died in the ship before it reaches Hesperia. Some of the women tired of journey were also allowed to stay in this island.
Eventually, Aeneas with the guidance of the Sibyl of Cumae, descends into the underworld to speak with his father’s spirit. After his return, he leads the Trojans to the land of Latium, where he begins to court Lavinia, the daughter of King Latinus.
War between the Trojans and the Latins was stirred by Juno by convincing Queen Amata of the Latins that her daughter Lavinia should be married to Turnus, the king of the Rutuli, and not Aeneas.
The Pallas of the Aeneid holds the dynastic mirror of the Pal kings in history. St Paul belongs to this Pal community of the ancient world whose settlements find them on the bank of this river Indus and its branch rivers near Bernice, or Varana.
Queen Amata of the Aenied is same as ‘Mata’(a generic name) identical with ‘Sri Mata’, who was living in Badariaka at the foot of the Mt Meru(source of the river Indus). She is also called Sa-chi, a corrupt name for Saketa, Shanxi, or Sanchi.
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