<P> Sanskrit indu "drop (of Soma)", also a term for the Moon, is unrelated, but has sometimes been erroneously connected . </P> <P> The words Hindū (Persian: هندو ‎) and Hind (Persian: هند ‎) came from Indo - Aryan / Sanskrit Sindhu (the Indus river or its region). The Achaemenid emperor Darius I conquered the Indus valley in about 516 BCE, upon which the Achaemenid equivalent of Sindhu, Hiduš (𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁, H-i - du - u-š) was used for the lower Indus basin . The name was also known as far as the Achaemenid province of Egypt where it was ortographed 𓉔𓈖𓂧𓍯𓇌 (H-n-d - wꜣ - y) on the Statue of Darius I, circa 500 BCE . </P> <P> In middle Persian, probably from the first century CE, the suffix - stān (Persian: ستان ‎) was added, indicative of a country or region, forming the name Hindūstān . Thus, Sindh was referred to as Hindūstān in the Naqsh - e-Rustam inscription of Sassanid emperor Shapur I in c. 262 CE . </P> <P> Emperor Babur said, "On the East, the South, and the West it is bounded by the Great Ocean ." Hind was notably adapted in the Arabic language as the definitive form Al - Hind (الهند) for India, e.g. in the 11th century Tarikh Al - Hind ("History of India"). It occurs intermittently in usage within India, such as in the phrase Jai Hind (Hindi: जय हिन्द) or in Hind Mahāsāgar (Hindi: हिन्द महासागर), the Standard Hindi name for the Indian Ocean but otherwise is deemed archaic . </P>

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