How many of you guys have gone down the deep end to re-discover yourselves? Truly?
As in, what does your last name signify. Is it generational? How far behind have you traced it? What lead to the creation of your last names and their origins? Who were your people's? Who the fuck are you?
I went down a fucking rabbit hole of all rabbit holes. Everyone knows by a quick who.is search my last name is Datta.
For the first 10 years of my life, all I knew was that I was a Hindu.
At 15, I found out we are Punjabi Brahmins (I thought these were religious folks - more on this later)
At 23 I found out Im an exclusive class of Punjabi Brahmins called Punbjabi Mohyals - a very small clan of 7 last names, of which Datta is one.
In the last year, what I found out blew my mind. We aren't just Punbjabi Moyhals - Datta's were / are the ONLY Warrior Priests dating back to the 6th century and the Pubjabi Mohyal clan itself goes back to the 2nd century to the holiest and most learned of Saints. For context, the UK was formed circa 930 when the 4 kingdoms were united under King Arthur or King Richard and then went on a worldwide pillage tour.
But in the Punjabi context - a Brahmin / Saint is less about God and priestly duties as it is about wisdom and knowledge, of life, the universe, medicine, the works.
By 680 AD - my forefather Rahab Sidh Datt was a clan leader in the North East Frontier was was well known all across North Western India to modern day Iraq.
In fact, in 680 AD = at the Battle of Karbala - Hussein Ibn Ali was facing political uprisings (iirc) and on learning of this, Rahab Sidh Datt was the ONLY leader in all of the Punjabi Mohyal clan who did not only believe in merely preaching the vedas on what is honor and just, but was willing to fight and die for it.
Along with his 7 sons, he rode into battle carrying their vedas in one hand and their swords in the other, wearing Saffron as the war cry against injustice, in the name of honor, and fighting for what was right. They all died. And Punbjabi Mohyals, because of the sacrifices of the Datts at Karbala, were posthumously crowned Husseini Brahmins aka Warrior Priests - the only clan in the old world to hold that prestige - and we still do to this day.
Hussein Ibn Ali then announced the last 7 days of Muharram to be honored to my 7 forefather brothers, and, one of the largest mosques to this day has been erected in Lahore Pakistan (iirc - never been) in the name of Rahab Sidh Datt - the only non-muslim to ever be honored in Islam since year 700.
Learning so much about myself made me realize why I have this undying fascination with Orange (saffron) on black since childhood and i couldn't explain it. I kinda do now.
As in, what does your last name signify. Is it generational? How far behind have you traced it? What lead to the creation of your last names and their origins? Who were your people's? Who the fuck are you?
I went down a fucking rabbit hole of all rabbit holes. Everyone knows by a quick who.is search my last name is Datta.
For the first 10 years of my life, all I knew was that I was a Hindu.
At 15, I found out we are Punjabi Brahmins (I thought these were religious folks - more on this later)
At 23 I found out Im an exclusive class of Punjabi Brahmins called Punbjabi Mohyals - a very small clan of 7 last names, of which Datta is one.
In the last year, what I found out blew my mind. We aren't just Punbjabi Moyhals - Datta's were / are the ONLY Warrior Priests dating back to the 6th century and the Pubjabi Mohyal clan itself goes back to the 2nd century to the holiest and most learned of Saints. For context, the UK was formed circa 930 when the 4 kingdoms were united under King Arthur or King Richard and then went on a worldwide pillage tour.
But in the Punjabi context - a Brahmin / Saint is less about God and priestly duties as it is about wisdom and knowledge, of life, the universe, medicine, the works.
By 680 AD - my forefather Rahab Sidh Datt was a clan leader in the North East Frontier was was well known all across North Western India to modern day Iraq.
In fact, in 680 AD = at the Battle of Karbala - Hussein Ibn Ali was facing political uprisings (iirc) and on learning of this, Rahab Sidh Datt was the ONLY leader in all of the Punjabi Mohyal clan who did not only believe in merely preaching the vedas on what is honor and just, but was willing to fight and die for it.
Along with his 7 sons, he rode into battle carrying their vedas in one hand and their swords in the other, wearing Saffron as the war cry against injustice, in the name of honor, and fighting for what was right. They all died. And Punbjabi Mohyals, because of the sacrifices of the Datts at Karbala, were posthumously crowned Husseini Brahmins aka Warrior Priests - the only clan in the old world to hold that prestige - and we still do to this day.
Hussein Ibn Ali then announced the last 7 days of Muharram to be honored to my 7 forefather brothers, and, one of the largest mosques to this day has been erected in Lahore Pakistan (iirc - never been) in the name of Rahab Sidh Datt - the only non-muslim to ever be honored in Islam since year 700.
Learning so much about myself made me realize why I have this undying fascination with Orange (saffron) on black since childhood and i couldn't explain it. I kinda do now.
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