Dates of written Rgveda

[Paul Kekai Manansala]

Koenraad Elst wrote:
>
> Friends,
>
> Just returned from India, carrying among other things the freshly published
> Deciphered Harappan Script by N. Jha & N.S. Rajaram.
>
> I find a question addressed to me about the horse evidence.  Well, I have
> nothing to add to the status quaestionis, with archaeologists like BB Lal
> claiming that a number of horse remains have been found in a dozen Harappan
> sites.  Still very marginal, of course, and in that sense an argument from
> silence against the identification of Harappa with a horse-centred culture.
> Considering that Shereen Ratnagar has argued against a much broader argument
> from silence, viz. the absence of traces of an Aryan invasion which in her
> opinion need not prove the absence of such an invasion, I suppose we need
> not jump to conclusions in the case of the paucity of horse remains either.
>

I don't know of any uncovered culture (archaeologically) in India that
could be described as "horse-centered."

Regards,
Paul Kekai Manansala

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