ORIGINS OF KOREA
November 07, 2007
To my dear Sons:
It was quite interesting to read about a delegation of 100 high-level government officials from South Korea, who came unexpectedly to India. They traveled to what used to be Ayodhya in ancient times and looked for a Mr. Mishra. When they found the unsuspecting poor farmer, they showered him with lavish gifts, and millions of dollars. They told him that he was the direct descendant of King Mishra of Ayodhya from about 50 A.D, who was their ancestor, and the ancestor of the largest group of Koreans!
They also gifted over 40 million dollars to make Ayodhya a Sister City to the City of Kimhae, Korea. They asked Mr. Mishra to travel back and forth between Ayodhya and Korea as their ambassador.
Their story is as follows: King Mishra of Ayodhya was an extremely wealthy, powerful, and pious King of ancient India. Ayodhya was the capital of Lord Ram, the seventh incarnation of Lord Vishnu. King Mishra had one daughter whose name was Gauri, meaning as gentle and pure as a cow. One morning the King awoke from a dream, in which he was instructed by divine sources, so he related, that he should send his daughter by ship to a small hitherto unknown island to the East. There she should marry the head of the tribal people. King Mishra’s court and his family were shocked that the King would send his only daughter, the heir to his powerful throne, faraway to an island not even neighboring his kingdom.But the pious king obeyed his dictate and sent his daughter Gauri, along with her brother, and an escort of a powerful Naval Fleet and many valiant warriors along with them. He also sent teachers of various academic subjects and martial arts. Many lavish and opulent gifts were sent to the island along with his daughter. He told her to marry the chief of the tribes there. Gauri was only 16 years old.
At the same time, on the island, the King of the people was King Suro. He had hitherto refused to marry any local girl, to the dismay of all around him. He proclaimed that a divine source had told him that his wife would descend from the heavens and he would wait until this happened. One day, many people ran to him from the beach-head with information that a great armada had landed and among them was a Princess as he had predicted. He ordered that the Princess and her escorts be brought before him.
To his surprise, the 16-year-old sent a message back to him that she expected the respect that was due her as a woman and a Princess. Amazed and impressed, King Suro sent his men to build a camp with tents outside his fort for Gauri and her warrior-escorts. After they were settled, he formally invited and escorted them into his abode. They were soon married. The country then became known as Gauriya, and now it is known as Korea.
The King and Queen, who was called Queen Huh or Queen Heo, in Gauriya, had 10 sons and two daughters. There are now six million descendents from this Princess of Ayodhya, India. This is the largest clan of Koreans and extremely well known and respected. They are the prominent leaders of Korea. They are well known in Korea as the Kimhae Kims or the Kimhae Huhs. They include President Kim Dae Jund and Prime Minister Jong Pil Kim.
REFERENCES: Iryeon, pages 161 to 164.
Samyak – Yusa, Seoul. Yonsei University Press.
- ISBN 8971410175.
- Times of India 15-05-2005.
- India Abroad 14-05-2000.
The royal seal of Ayodhya is two fish kissing each other, this is also the symbol in Korea. Gauri also took with her one single plant of tea and that is how Korea got its tea.Gauri had also brought with her a special stone to “keep the waters of the ocean calm while they sailed.” These are the only stones found now in Korea that are indigenous to Ayodhya and were used as one of the bases for the Korean to determine where the Princess came from, along with genetic DNA testing.
This story was fascinating to me because it shows how, no matter how different we look or how different cultures maybe after thousands of years, ultimately it will be shown that we all come from the same cradle Perhaps the future genrations can use this knowledge to work together as a united world among brothers and sisters instead of the wars and fighting we are seeing now,
With love,
Dad.
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