The First Battle in Indian History | The Battle of Ten Kings

The Battle of the Ten Kings was the first recorded battle in Indian History. It was a major political event in the Vedic world. In this video, I discuss the various details available for this battle.

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[JayVardhanSingh]

CORRECTION - At 2:41, the number is 6, 666, not 66, 666.

[mukundakhatiwara]

very well explained . keep going .you and your channel definately deserve a million subscribers

[umbrellacorporation]

We are the decendence of Bharat clan. Our land name Bharat is named after Emperor Bharat.

[ishanchoreographyandlifest]

0:40 the book is written in form of manuscript in 1500bce but its not composed on 1500bce before manuscript it was used in orally.

[PrashantParikh]

Appreciate the explanation. But I suggest using BCE instead of BC, and CE instead of AD, so as to not universalize Christianity :)

[ar]

Thanks for the video very accurate information.

Also there is another battle of Indians mentioned in akkadian documents, which took place between an akkadian king and meluhhian troops around 2300BCE.

[thelogicless]

This battle seems like the origin of Mahabharata

[parmykumar]

The Nordern Sagas also mention the battle of the 10 King's & I believe it's the same battle because they also believed in Vedic deities!

[anselmdanker]

Thank you for a very informative presentation.

[AnujSharma]

This is not 1500 BC as Historical datings as well as Historical Narratives are Subjective issue no objectivity in whole his-tory except Inscriptions & Archeology So 1500 Bc or putting a end line of Vedic era on 1500 Bc completely uncredible even, The So called Iron age 1200 Bc according to Western Narrative as they think West History is world History but iron age begins in 2200 BC in Tamil Nadu, there people was supposed to be living in Indus valley but it won't fit the narrative so they didn't dare to issue any paper or press as Indians and their past is irrelevant to them till it fits their narrative of supremacy so be aware of these So Called Historians and their narrative should not be a line of Stone, You must use your Thinking & Logic, Rationality is the new way to go even it is against our own personal issues,
but for exams we have to write it, same as wrriten by historical narrative that is promoted by our own government till today we cannot leave these kind of doable questions. So Quote "Sir Max Muller & Sir Micheal Witzel" before writing.

[dotxh]

A question. You are using the word 'tribe' for all the parties of the battle. Were they tribe as in the modern sense like having different customs, gods, rituals etc. or were they just a simple clan/family headed by a King following same religion, customs etc.?

[gravewalker]

It was civil war in todays words. Three or four battles happened between indo european, indo iranians. First i think under divodasa then sudas's 10 kings battle and last under his decendants. Zarathustra in avesta remembers a later battle fought during somakas time. In this battle Zarathustra desribes the enemies leader as humayaka. So, its somaka who is decendant of sudas. He describes one Puru king who sided with Anus naming manuschitra and in rig veda its chitraratha who sided with enemies of bharatas. So all these people are our people who r fighting among themselves for supremacy. No one is bad in this. At the most we can say Sudas was aggressor.

[dictator]

The Rigaveda was composed about 8000-10000BC, this is truth according to recent study of mention of Saraswati river in Rigaveda, and the archeological evidence of the river body, the mention in it is as a large river, which was only 10000 YEARS AGO

[pakshirajan]

Didn't Battle of Hariyupiya/Yavyavati happen before the Battle of 10 Kings? After all it was fought by Abhyavartin Chayamana of Anu and Shrinjaya of Puru Clan (Ancestor of Divodasa who in turn was ancestor of Sudasa) againt Varashika of Turvasha and Vrichivanta of Yadu Clans.

[Trinath_Narayan]

Battle of Hariyupiya of the Sixth mandala is older than dasarajna war?

[aksworldinfo]

My message to all those whatsapp University or brainwash University, from north to south, its only one nation that is bharat. Those who are playing separatist politics, say north is different and south is different, this land of Bharat is not for you all.

[vg]

This particular topic intrigues me as it holds the answers to the migration of Indo-european language and culture. Srikant Talageri has done extensive work in this region. His analysis of the rig rig veda is something you should look into. The dates proposed by Talageri an Koenraad Elst is 3000BCE for the old damily books of the Rig Veda and the battle must have taken place somewhere around that time.

[bapuheddur]

1.53.9. त्वमेताञ्जनराज्ञो द्विर्दशाबन्धुना सुश्रवसोपजग्मुषः । षष्टिं सहस्रा नवतिं नव श्रुतो नि चक्रेण रथ्या दुष्पदावृणक् ॥ With all-outstripping chariot-wheel, O Indra, thou far-famed, hast overthrown the twice ten Kings of men, With sixty thousand nine-and-ninety followers, who came in arms to fight with friendless Susravas.

[the_moto_monk_ey]

Nice video. In Mahabharat, Ved Vyas mentions planetary positions for before some events and based on that we can say Mahabharat war was fought in 3102 BCE. If Kurus were descendants of Puru and Bharat it means Battle of ten kings and writing of Rig ved both were older than 3102 BCE

[riturajdixit]

Nice efforts to put historical events in a series. Couple of suggestions to make it more involving- 1. Please use some pictures and graphics as these things add charm to the stories. 2. Please display the reference materials when talking about any scripture, book etc in your video, For e.g. you mentioned about the source of this battle in Rig Veda. If you can include mandala #, Versa # etc, preferably with the script in the background, this will add more power to your series.