1575- वसुधैव कुटुम्बकं Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam

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1) Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, meaning:
वसुधा, vasudhaa ( f.) means Earth.
'Vasudha' refers to the Earth or to the entire Creation, meaning the vast cosmos.

'Eva' means “certainly” or “verily.”

'Kutumbam' means a family or blood relations, and kutumbakam technically means a little family.

So here the Vedic sages are saying that the entire world is truly just one family. The world is like a small, tightly knit, nuclear family.

2) 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' in Upanishad:
Maha Upanishad Chapter 6, Verse 72:
" अयं बन्धुरयं नेति गणना लघुचेतसां
उदारचरितानां तु वसुधैव कुटुम्बकं "
'ayam bandhurayam neti ganana laghuchetasam
udaracharitanam tu vasudhaiva kutumbakam'

'Only small men discriminate saying: One is a relative; the other is a stranger.
For those who live magnanimously the entire world constitutes but a family.'

3) Hitopadesha, 1.3.71:
'ayam nijah paroveti ganana laghuchetasam
udaracharitanam tu vasudhaiva kutumbhakam' |

’This is my own and that a stranger’ – is the calculation of the narrow-minded
For the magnanimous-hearts however, the entire earth is but a family'

4) Tamil Poem written 2500 years ago :
Tamil Poet Kanian Poongundranar on the concept similar to 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' (Song 192, Purananuru, Sangam literature)

'யாதும் ஊரே; யாவரும் கேளிர்;
"Yathum Oore Yavarum Kelir"

'Every place is my home town; Everyone my kith and kin'
(yahoo ask why)
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