Book review: Indus Age- the Writing System by Gregory L.Possehl.

[Sanjeev Shankar]

Ganeshan,

Please do provide concrete evidence for Mr Thompson's dating of the Rg Veda.
A simple 'he says so' is
inadmissible. And Jha's reading of the Indus seals
is hardly contingent on your say so. If you can scholastically disprove Jha
please do so else kindly restrain yourself from making statements such as "I
am not so sure that Jha or anyone else can read Indus seals using Vedic
glossary."

Regards
Sanjeev Shanka


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Indology [mailto:INDOLOGY at LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK]On Behalf Of N.
> Ganesan
> Sent: Saturday, May 01, 1999 3:34 PM
> To: INDOLOGY at LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Book review: Indus Age- the Writing System by Gregory
> L.Possehl.
>
>
> Dear Vishal Agarwal,
>
> Greetings.
>
> I am overstepping Prof. Y. Vassilkov's nice advice that 'Aryan
> invasion' is a 'taboo' in this list; Don't know how long you have been
> writing in INDOLOGY. Please search Aryan, Horse, Indus valley in the
> archives, you will almost be overwhelmed by the number of posts from
> reputed Indologists on this emotional issue.
>
> N. S. Rajaram critiques that Possehl does not mention cyber space
> articles by Frawley, Rajaram, school. One time, the list founder
> Dr. Wujastyk forwarded a message from Rajaram. May be he can
> become a member of Indology and his discuss his important findings
> with the expert Indologists here in cyber space.
> Probably then, he can advance the field of
> INDOLOGY close to what he claims: analogous to the leap
> from Newtonian mechanics to Quantum mechanics era.
>
> Prof. George Thompson, a trained Vedicist knowing Vedic quite well,
> wrote here that Rig Veda's date is about 1000 B.C.
> The classical phase of Indus culture was around 2500 B.C.,
> I am not so sure that Jha or anyone else can read Indus
> seals using Vedic glossary. The problem is about ONE
> millennium gap in time.
>
> Regards,
> N. Ganesan
>
>
>
>
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