Gita

[Richard Salomon]

Oops, sorry, my previous message was supposed to be private -- please 
disregard!

RS

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Salomon" <rsalomon at U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: Gita


> "Hitting the branch of the tree on which one sits" (below) sounds like it 
> could be a Brueghelian proverb - can you find it in the big painting?
>
> Or, on second thought, maybe it's  a Nepali proverb.
>
> Or both.
>
> RIch
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dipak Bhattacharya" <dbhattacharya2004 at YAHOO.CO.IN>
> To: <INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk>
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Gita
>
>
> <Dutch provincial and very religious universities (fortunately very few of 
> them)>
> Should one really feel fortunate that institutions with religious 
> orientation are few? Many make a living out of research on their 
> activities and on thoughts upon which they have been built up. No matter 
> they are of another denomination, it is the genre that supplies bread and 
> butter to philologists, to some at least. Hitting the branch of the tree 
> on which one sits?
> Also the tongue-in-cheek delibearation may be accompanied with sermon on 
> some ideal that can be safe from it. That will render "Indology" into a 
> proper theological forum.
> DB
>
>
> --- On Thu, 15/1/09, FRITS STAAL <fritsstaal at BERKELEY.EDU> wrote:
>
> From: FRITS STAAL <fritsstaal at BERKELEY.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Gita
> To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
> Date: Thursday, 15 January, 2009, 8:13 AM
>
> Good for the Dutch provincial and very religious universities (fortunately
> very few of them) to learn something new...
>> Victor,
>>
>> I will send you a copy.  Will you kindly send a copy of the review to me
>> when it appears?
>>
>> Thanks for your interest,
>>
>> George
>>
>> victor van Bijlert wrote:
>>
>>>If you send me a review copy, I would review it for the journal on
>>>comparative religious studies from the Free University Amsterdam.
>>>
>>>My postal address is:
>>>
>>>Burg.Patijnlaan 1062
>>>
>>>2585 CE Den Haag
>>>
>>>The Netherlands
>>>
>>>Cheers
>>>
>>>Victor
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
> Frits Staal
>
> http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/staal
>
>
>
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