Borrowings ( was Re: Filliozat, etc.)

[Narayan S. Raja]

On Mon, 6 May 1996, George Thompson wrote:

> there would be little dispute about "the borrowing of ideas".  Enrica
> Garzilli informs me that she believes that there was a certain amount of
> borrowing in the other direction [i.e., from Greek to Indic]. No doubt,
> there was.  But I am confident that subsequent research will show that the
> Greeks learned a quite few things from those dark-skinned, scantily-attired
> "gymnosophists" and philosophers, from India, as well as from other peoples


I was under the impression that the
systematic study of grammar/language is 
considered an uncontroversial example
of  Greek "borrowing" from India... or 
am I mistaken?

Regards,


Raja.