'Hindu', 'Christianity' are invented words

Gargamuni Dasa: That's why Prabhupada said there's no word that is 'Hindus.' When the Mughals, the Moguls which came from Persia, Afghani, they ruled - Akbar, Aurangzeb and Shah Jahan, built the Taj Mahal. When they came, they came through the Khyber Pass. And they saw these people living along the Indus River. In Persian there's no word for 'I,' for the letter 'I.' 'Indus,' they said 'Hindus.' "This is a Muslim word," Prabhupada said.

The word Hindu doesn't exist in any Vedic scripture. In any of the original four Vedas, there's no word 'Hindu.' "It's an invented word by Muslims," he said. And even the language itself is a mixture of many languages. It's not a pure language. It's a mixture of Persian, Udru and Afghani, so many. So there's no such word as 'Hindus.' There's only sanatana-dharma. But there's no word Hindu.

So when you say 'Hindu,' that's an invented word by man. Like 'Christianity.' When Jesus was present there is no 'Christianity.' There's no such thing. That was invented three hundred years later. So man invents these things. 

But God doesn't invent the word 'Hindu.' God invented sanatana-dharma, so that's what we are, that's our identification - not Hindus. "There's a Hindu culture," Prabhupada says, but there is no Hindi language in the Vedas. There's no Devanagari word 'Hindu'.