Age of the Veda ...

[Miroslav Rozehnal]

At 08:12 AM 1999/12/6 +0530, S.Kalyanaraman wrote
>I want to raise another issue in a different cultural-language context. Is it
>true that the Avestan word for 'god' is baga? If so, is this related to
>Old Slavic bogu 'god' or to para-Munda word: bon:ga?

According to Monier-Williams (see under 'bhaga'), Avestan 'baga' and Old
Slavic 'bogu' are both related to the Sanskrit 'bhaga'.

Miroslav Rozehnal