Cross stone – “khach dash” or “bash dash”

Abstract

The paper deals with the names of the “cross stone”, common in the Caucasus. The word “khachkar” did not occur in Armenian culture until the 12thcentury; the words “khach” and “kar” originated from Indo-European languages. As we see, their roots come from Sanskrit - from the language of the Veda, archaic sacral texts, which laid the foundation for South Asian traditional religious ideologies and Indo-European culture as a whole.