Indo-Aryan words in Hurrian

[Swaminathan Madhuresan]

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The whole fairy
 tale of Indo-Aryan kings in Syria may boil down to something like this.
 There has been too much speculation based on theories of Aryan superiority;
 an example is what I recently found in a German Atlas der Weltgeschichte:
 "Im 2. Jt. Einwanderung der Churriter aus der Gegend des Wan-Sees in das
 noerdl. Mesopotamien... Ueberall bilden sie eine Oberschicht...
 Ueberlegenheit im Kampf durch pferdebespannte Streitwagen... Bei der
 arischen Oberschicht werden die ind. Goetter Indra, Mitra und Varuna
 verehrt..." And in Cornelius' GESCHICHTE DER HETHITER, Darmstadt 1973 (!),
 p. 96: "Und ueberhaupt hat die arische Fuehrung den Churritern erst den
 Schwung gegeben, der sie zu einer geschichtswirksamen Nation geformt
 hat..."

 If Mayrhofer "assumes contact a (few) hundred years before c. 1380", this
 is not based on any known facts.
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>When Mayrhofer in one of his articles characterizes Hurrian faduranni as an
>IA "Rechtsterminus", this is a striking example of his bias. He implies, or
>appears to imply, that an IA language was used as a legal term in Hurrian
>courts!

We rely too much on old, outdated material on "Aryan" Kikkuli text,
(Paul Thieme's JAOS article) etc.,

On his bias, Prof. Madhav Deshpande, University of Michigan:
"65. Several Indo-Europeanists have shown a marked reluctance
in recent times to accept Dravidian etymologies for Sanskrit
words, See Paul Thieme (1955)."
(p. 111, Sociolinguistic attitudes in India, 1979).

Thanks.


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