Not all Ethiopians came to India as slaves.

Ethiopians were trading with

India even before Roman times.The Romans make it clear they were
trading in the Indian Ocean in their own ships.

A reading of ancient Dravidian literature which dates back to
500 BC, gives us considerable information on the Naga. In Indian
tradition the Naga won central India from the Villavar (bowmen) and
Minavar
(fishermen). The Naga were great seamen who ruled much of India, Sri
Lanka and Burma. To the Aryans they described as half man and snake.
The
Tamil knew them as warlike people who used the bow and noose.

The earliest mention of the Naga, appear in the Ramayana , they are
also mentioned in the Mahabharata. In the Mahabharata we discover that
the
Naga had the capital city in the Dekkan, and other cities spread between
thhe Jumna and Ganges as early as 1300 BC. The Dravidian classic, the
Chilappathikaran made it clear that the first great kingdom of India was
Naganadu.

The Naga probably came from Kush-Punt/Ethiopia. The Puntites were the
greatest sailors of the ancient world. In the Egyptian inscriptions there
is mention of the Puntite ports of Outculit, Hamesu and Tekaru, which
corresponds to Adulis, Hamasen and Tigre.

In Sumerian text, it is claimed that the Puntites traded with the
people of the Indus Valley or Dilmun. According to S.N. Kramer in The
Sumerians, part of Punt was probably called Meluhha, and Dilmun was
probably the
ancient name of the Indus Valley. (Today some scholars maintain that
Oman,
where we find no ancient cities was Dilmun and the Indus Valley may have
been Meluhha).

Ancient Ethiopian traditions support the rule of Puntites or
Ethiopians of India. In the Kebra Nagast, we find mention of the Arwe
kings who ruled India. The founder of the dynasty was Za Besi Angabo.
This
dynasty according to the Kebra Nagast began around 1370 BC. These
rulers of
India and Ethiopia were called Nagas. The Kebra Nagast claims that "
Queen
Makeda "had servants and merchants; they traded for her at sea and on
land
in the Indies and Aswan". It also says that her son Ebna Hakim or Menelik
I, made a campaign in the Indian Sea; the king of India made gifts and
donations and prostrated himself before him". It is also said that Menalik
ruled an empire that extended from the rivers of Egypt (Blue Nile) to the
west and from the south Shoa to eastern India", according to the Kebra
Nagast. The Kebra Nagast identification of an eastern Indian empre ruled
by
the Naga, corresponds to the Naga colonies in the Dekkan, and on the East
coast between the Kaviri and Vaigai rivers.

The presence of Meluhhaites/ Puntites in India may expain the Greek
tradition of Kusites ruling India up to the Ganges. It would also explain
the Aryan traditions of Mlechchas ( Sanskrit name for some of the non-
Aryan
people) as one of the aboriginal groups of India. Many scholars associate
the name Mlechchas with Meluhha.

The major Naga tribes were the Maravar, Eyinar, Oliyar, Oviyar,
Aru-Valur and Parathavar. The Nagas resisted the invansion of the Cholas .
In the Kalittokai IV,1-5, the Naga are described as being "of strong limbs
and hardy frames and fierce looking tigers wearing long and curled locks of
hair." The Naga kings of Sri Lanka are mentioned in the: Mahawanso, and
are
said to have later become Dravidians, as testified to by the names of these
people: Naganathan, Nagaratnam, Nagaraja and etc.

The major gift of the Naga to India was the writing system: Nagari.Nagari
is the name for the Sanskrit script. Over a hundred years ago Sir William
Jones, pointed out that the ancient Ethiopic and Sanskrit writing are one
and the same.

William Jones, explained that the Ethiopian origin of Sanskrit was
supported by the fact that both writing systems the writing went from left
to right and the vowels were annexed to the consonants. Today
Eurocentric scholars teach that the Indians taught writing to the
Ethiopians, yet the name Nagari for Sanskrit betrays the Ethiopia origin of
this form of writing. Moreover, it is interesting to note that Sanskrit
vowels: a,aa,',I,u,e,o, virama etc., are in the same order as Geez.

The Ethiopian script has influenced many other writing systems. Y.M.
Kobishnor, in the Unesco History of Africa, maintains that Ethiopic was
used as the model for Armenian writing, as was many of the
Transcaucasian scripts. Dravidian literature indicate that the Naga may
have introduced worship of Kali, the Serpent, Murugan and the Sun or
Krishna. It is interesting to note that a god called Murugan is worshipped
by many people in East Africa.

It is interesting that Krishna, who was associated with the Sun, means
Black, this is analogous to the meaning of Khons of the Kushites. Homer,
described Hercules asfollows: "Black he stood as night his bow uncased,
his arrow string for
flight". This mention of arrows identifies the Kushites as warriors who
used the bow, a common weapon of the Kushites and the Naga.
Kumarinadu

The Naga or Ethiopians were defeated by Dravidian speaking people
from Kumarinadu. Kamarinadu is suppose to have formerly existed as a
large
Island in the India ocean which connected India with East Africa. This
landmass is mentioned in the Silappadikaram, which said that Kamarinadu
was
made up of seven nadus or regions. The Dravidian scholars Adiyarkunallar
and
Nachinaar wrote about the ancient principalities of Tamilaham, which
existed on Kamarinadu.

Kumarinadu was ruled by the Pandyans/Pandians at Madurai before it
sunk beneath the sea. The greatest king of Kumarinadu was Sengoon.
According to Dravidian scholars the Pandyans worshipped the
goddess Kumari
Amman. This Amman, probably corresponds to the ancient god Amon of
the
Kushites. The Kalittokai 104, makes it clear that after the Pandyans were
forced to migrate off their Island home into South India, "to compensate
for the area lost to the great waves of the sea, King Pandia without
tiresome moved to the other countries and won them. Removing the
emblems of
tiger (Cholas) and bow (Cheras) he, in their place inscribed his reputed
emblem fish (Pandia's) and valiantly made his enemies bow to him"..