SV: SV: Sanskrit translations in Nazi hands

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

"N. Ganesan" <naga_ganesan at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

>You are saying that "Sanskrit was never borrowed into India".
>How do we explain the similarities between Old Iranian
>and Sanskrit with your position that Sanskrit is native
>to India and it never entered into India. Then, it must
>have gone out from there to Iran??

Not necessarily, of course.  Strictly speaking, Paul is right that
Sanskrit, and even Proto-Indo-Aryan, developed in the Indian
subcontinent (probably Punjab and Kashmir, respectively).

Proto-Indo-Iranian is of course an entirely different matter.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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Amsterdam