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]

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]

I am waiting for King yashodharman

[@user-lm8zd9kd1w]

Mee too

[@manrupjps7e323]

Me waiting for prakashdharman

[@vyasakrishna8801]

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]

Do you want to know what happened

[@vyasakrishna8801]

@@dhruvsingh7215 i can wait for the next episode 😁

[@anirudh177]

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]

Share playlist please

[@igormalic743]

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

[@kamath234]

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

[@JayVardhanSingh]

Glad you like them!

[@theybecameus]

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

[@manrupjps7e323]

​@@theybecameusits true af

[@Samudra121]

​@@manrupjps7e323Even after it has been debunked? 😂

[@shekharb2981]

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]

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

[@debarghyabhattacharyya5069]

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

[@JayVardhanSingh]

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

[@raghunandan9290]

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]

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

[@Lmao69]

Yes

[@gujjewman96]

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]

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]

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

[@tanned06]

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]

thanks for pointing out the correct pronunciation.

[@ajaymalolan1497]

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

[@JayVardhanSingh]

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]

@@JayVardhanSingh ok 👍🏻

[@MuhammadSabir-vi9qf]

your programme is appreciated, in the way you explain.

[@raginisingh2251]

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]

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]

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

[@jimjiminy5836]

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

[@jaatram6606]

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]

The Pushyabhuti will be discussed in a future video.

[@Ak-zw1mq]

Amazing series ❤

[@kraut1982]

Great content especially images at 3:10.👍

[@sonups8483]

Omg did they reach that distance 😳

[@chandrabhushan8597]

Turks were always like that

[@adwaitvedant3297]

@@chandrabhushan8597 Huns were proto turks..

[@prateekrai6260]

​@@adwaitvedant3297proto Turks means?

[@GargiSingh-op2je]

Early means proto​@@prateekrai6260

[@theybecameus]

appreciate ur consistency

[@pradoshbiswas]

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?

[@drshilpitiwari8826]

Why was the Buddhist monastery spared selectively?

[@JayVardhanSingh]

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

[@hiteshsir0556]

Har har mahadev

[@Deepak_Dhakad]

Har har mahadev

[@jayastubanerjee1998]

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

[@ChessShaastra]

It's not pronounced as Hans, But Huuns!

[@Samudra121]

In english it's pronounced as Hans, in Indian languages as Huuns.

[@akk7791]

Nice

[@zarrinqalam3298]

Sir what was the religion of hunas?

[@thinwhitedukerhapsody]

Buddhism, Hinduism,shamanism

[@royarnab26]

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

[@arnavpandey3779]

The ones that invaded india worshipped lord shiva.

[@varunsingla4718]

@@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]

Will do a separate video on it.

[@aryanjaiswal8935]

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

[@JayVardhanSingh]

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

[@Lmao69]

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]

@@Lmao69 Yo u Avik Sarakar???

[@dazzlinghen4225]

When decline of Huns happened ?

[@JayVardhanSingh]

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

[@rowlattgamer3355]

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

[@thestormbreaker6221]

😂😂

[@theybecameus]

do you believe aryan invasion theory is true jay?

[@sharadowasdr]

What was the religion of the invading Hunas ?

[@Apex_Alpha53]

Hindu

[@Akira-dm3tj]

​@@Apex_Alpha53 No! They became shaivas later but they had their own beliefs before invading India.

[@dpsharma8499]

Pl write ganga plain not ganga valley

[@sanasama2209]

Wtf is a Ganga valley 😅 you meant Plains 🤔

[@punitsingh9069]

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]

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

[@Theblessedone11]

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]

I am not aware of this.

[@dilipsiroor9844]

Hunts

[@MuhammadSabir-vi9qf]

majority people came from euroasia caucasu steppe.

[@tavishbhadu493]

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]

Jaat are scthyain

[@prasadsirdesai8349]

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

[@vyjayantitripathi9976]

Are these armies of huns came with women

[@JayVardhanSingh]

I don't think so.

[@Samudra121]

​@@JayVardhanSinghSo what happened to their own women because the places they came from were really low in population and hence to form a big army every young man's contribution was required?

[@rajashashankgutta4334]

First comment

[@baloch8961]

Huns so similar to hundu

[@Lmao69]

Kuch bhi 😂😂

[@Lmao69]

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

[@parjanyashukla176]

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

[@jyotirmayamohanty5723]

I also believe so.

[@vitthapx]

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]

@@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.

[@papajee1990]

​@@parjanyashukla176turks were not actually from turkey infact they were from region of turkmenistan and bactria. This is the exact same region in which these alkan huns were ruling. So both turks and huns were actually from same region.

[@Vath098]

No, Huns did not destroy/or attempted to destroy Hindu civilization. They only destroyed it's outer symbols like buildings during conquest phase. Once they conquered, they eventually assimilated into Hindu fold. Turks in contrast wanted to destroy the very essence of Hindu civilization (it's religion and philosophy) and replace with another way of life.

[@Ak-zw1mq]

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

[@Lmao69]

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

[@MuhammadSabir-vi9qf]

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

[@MuhammadSabir-vi9qf]

@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]

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

[@user-kt3jn7wx5f]

@@Narimann 😂✌️

[@MuhammadSabir-vi9qf]

thor in pashto mean black, look pashtun goy.

[@yuvarudra6602]

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]

Thank you bhai

[@yuvarudra6602]

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

[@nasirhussain7826]

They are tomras not foreigner

[@rajakc1514]

Are Guptas Biharis?

[@drg598]

Purvanchalis (eastern UP)

[@Apex_Alpha53]

Bengalis

[@Akira-dm3tj]

We can't know. Modern day Indian states and languages cannot be used for finding out the origin of ancient empires like Guptas or mauryans. But Biharis, purvanchalis, Maithilis, Bengalis and Oriyas can be their descendants as all of these cultures were once called magadha and spoke māgadhi.

[@Samudra121]

Yes...North India doesn't have one big emperor of importance. Harshvardhan can be an exception but he was defeated by PulkeshinII who himself was defeated and killed by Narsimhavarman Mammala of pallava dynasty.