SV: SV: Sanskrit translations in Nazi hands

[Paul Kekai Manansala]

Christopher Fernandez wrote:
>
> In a message dated 1/8/99 10:28:07 AM Central Standard Time,
> sns at IX.NETCOM.COM writes:
>
> >At the same time, is it too much to ask that the same consideration
> >be extended to Indian scholars who do not agree to the AI/M theory ?
>
> In any field of scholarship, theory should be made to fit the
>  facts and not the other way around. In a recent posting,
> it was pointed out that Subhash Kak, one of the prominent
> persons opposing the AIM theory, has chosen to ignore the facts
>  which convincingly show that "Arya/Aryan" had a linguistic
> connotation among Indians long before any of the
>  Indo-European specialists appeared on the scene.

Not that I'm defending Kak, but we have to be careful here.  You can
find some problems with the views of practically any scholar if you look
hard enough.

> From my understanding, S. Palaniappan stated that "Arya" was sometimes
used in Tamil texts to refer to Sanskrit. He did not mention anything
approaching the use of the term for the family of Indo-Aryan languages
(or some close facsimile).

Regards,
Paul Kekai Manansala