Parmenides

[Jacob Baltuch]

Thanks to Klaus Karttunen for many references. He writes:

>I think it is unlikely that there is any real connection. ZaGkara was
>centuries later than Parmenides and there hardly was much knowledge of
>Greek philosophy preserved in India, where it seems never to have aroused
>much interest.

There can also be a connection based on having had a similar fundamental
intuition and having gone through a similar thought process, entirely in
an independant fashion.

I guess it all depends on what one means by "connection".