Gentoo studies

Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian ramakris at EROLS.COM
Tue May 25 00:11:19 UTC 1999


 Vidyasankar Sundaresan <vsundaresan at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:


>>I have yet to come across any "Western" scholar who understands the
>>notion of
>>apaurushheyatva ...
>
>It is not clear to me that "understanding" (if not accepting) the
notion of
>apaurusheyatva will greatly affect the dating of Vedic texts. What is
a few
>thousand years here and there in timeless eternity?


Exactly what I was wondering too. How does  "apaurusheyatva" help in
Vedic philology? It is of relevance in understanding only later
vedAntic thought.

Rama





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