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Dear Anand ji

I also heard that, Australia came from "Asthra+ alaya" . When rama in anger started taking his arrow out from its hoot and viewing against the sagaradeva, the samutradeva appeared before him and asked sorry. But, according to rama, he never get backs his asthra. He finally asked the lord of ocean himself what to do now with that asthra. He said that, just send it to padhala loga and there was a big continent residing inside and rama did like that...

I need explanation for this too. Earth was almost a single piece only. On later developmental stages only, it got divided into this much continents and countries. In campodia, age old shiva temple is there. In Javanese, the word 'siti' means earth! Many Javanese women have Siti as part of their names. Perhaps this came from Sanskirt? (notice Ksiti from Ksitigarbha)? I guess so. What about the other word: garbha? Guwa-garbha is the ancient Javanese word for stomach, or to be precise, the inner part of woman's body in which a baby is conceived and grown. This perhaps connected to why one's country is sometimes referred as 'mother-earth'.
The full moon in Java is called "purnama". What is it called in India?

The Hind culture spread from the area along the River Sindh, all the way along the coast across the Indian Ocean, through Thailand, western Malaysia, Sumatra in Indonesia, Java, the Eastern islands of Indonesia, up to Australia.

Hinduism is very ancient and am sure it has wide-spread. If there is only one man in this whole world, what is the need of a name for him? If there is only one dish in the world, what is the use of naming it? Similarly, hinduism was only (monopoply) religion in ancient times. So, it does not had any special names. Just beacuse of this alone, you cannot doubt whether hinduism has its roots only in india.

So, it may be possible in every aspect of naming certian places like this in relation with our hinduism...

Pranams