Jehovah (Yahvah) - The Lord God in Indian Veda
http://www.himavanti.org/en/c/himavanti-1/yahvah-the-lord-god-in-indian-veda
YHVH appears 41 times in 33 of the Rgveda’s 1028 hymns ~ in maNDala I (5x), II (2x), III (9x), IV (5x), V (5x), VI (1x), VII (4x), VIII (2x), IX (3x), and X (5x) ~ with forms of the masculine yahva appearing 21 times, and forms of the feminine yahvI appearing 20 times.
And there are 16 hymns with yahva, 16 with yahvI, and only one with both (RV 3.1) ~ making 33 hymns altogether.
The hymns are for agni, indra, soma, asvina, all signifying that which moves (universal mindmahat).
However, in Veda, that which moves, the universal mind -mahat, has its seat in a firm stable called brahman. There are many proper names in the Old Testament affixed with yhv (yeho- or -yahu), and yhvh is the very name of God, which is known from inscriptions dated c. 830 BC.
The Hebrew derivation of yhv is unclear, and scholars have suggested that it may have a non-Israelite origin, with some seeking meanings in Aramaic or Arabic or Egyptian.
Although Sanskrit sources, where the same term is found with exactly the connotations appropriate to the biblical usage, have rarely been considered.
Why did the followers of Abraham and Moses refer to their god as Yahweh? The evidence from Hebrew language seems rather slight.
There was inter-marriage between Egyptian and Vedic cultures. More importantly, Yahvah, the name of the God in the Judaic tradition, occurs as an epithet for Agni in the Rigveda a total of 21 times (yahva in RV 10.110; yahvah in RV 3.1, 3.5, 4.5, 4.7, 4.58, 5.1, 7.6, 7.8, 9.75, 10.11; yahvam in RV 1.36; 3.3; 4.5; 5.16; 8.13; 10.92; yahvasya in RV 3.2 and 3.28).
Indus ideas on writing may thus have, through the agency of the powerful Mitanni kingdom of Syria, been influential in the various Semitic traditions of the second and first millennia BC.
