Reading Indus script as Sanskrit

Swaminathan Madhuresan smadhuresan at YAHOO.COM
Mon Mar 19 17:52:35 UTC 2001


Thanks for giving Prof. Witzel's review and related web locations
of Madhusudan Mishra's recent assertion that Indus writing is Sanskrit.
Also, is Prof. Mishra's work in cyberspace?

Thanks,
SM

--- David Salmon <dsalmon at SALMON.ORG> wrote:
>
> I don't believe the Bible does say so.  Please cite your source.
[...]
>
> No doubt some ignoramus would assume so, and has at one time or another, but
> I fail to see why ignorance should be seen as a "very American" trait.
> Kindly cite your source.  :-)   Actually, it--this language theory--sounds
> Indian in origin.  I -have- heard it asserted by some (Pakistani) Muslims
> that Arabic is God's language, and Michael Witzel recently reviewed a book
> by Dr. Madhusudan Mishra which purports to show the development of the holy
> Vedic language from primitive utterances in a Sarasvati-based Eden, "They
> were godly people who spoke little words with profound meaning."  Or prehaps
> the assumption that our gods are just like us is a more universal
> phenomenon.


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