Well, mzybe not so cool: Sanskrit script?

[Dipak Bhattacharya]

No such cases were related to me. That would hardly happen in the nineteenth century or before tho the matter requires some further spadework. Would an Alaskan go back from South of Canada unless he had hunch of unknown gold mines?  South of Kashmir India offered more opportunities.  Remember rhe Nehrus and other lordly families? Pandits were persecuted and fled Kashmir in the very late medieval period. A whole branch settled in Karnatak. But I should not remark before doing further work that is not  possible just now.
One known fact. In the fifteenth century a Kashmiri scholar had gone to Karnatak, had learnt something there and came back to be hugely welcomed. This matter has been repeatedly emphasised and recently contested, quite wrongly according to me. The Introductons to the volumes of the Paippalaada-Samhitaa (AS, Kolkata) will furnish the required information. What cannot be denied is that the withdrawal syndromes grew later.
Best 
DB 
--- On Thu, 7/1/10, Allen W Thrasher <athr at LOC.GOV> wrote:


From: Allen W Thrasher <athr at LOC.GOV>
Subject: Re: Well, mzybe not so cool: Sanskrit script?
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
Date: Thursday, 7 January, 2010, 8:00 PM


What would happen if the person unexpectedly returned?  Was his property distributed to the usual heirs after the quasi-memorial service, or after a certain period of time?  Was it anything like the social and legal situation of someone who took sannyasa and then came back wanting to get his property and wife back - i.e. that's out because you're really dead?

Allen

>>> Dipak Bhattacharya <dbhattacharya2004 at YAHOO.CO.IN> 1/7/2010 6:08:15 AM >>>

I should not be misunderstood. No punishment was meant. It was just giving up one. Note the ceremony in honour of the departed. Perhaps ignorance of  "devilish" outside world could be at work.
--- On Thu, 7/1/10, Allen W Thrasher <athr at LOC.GOV> wrote:


From: Allen W Thrasher <athr at LOC.GOV>
Subject: Re: Well, mzybe not so cool: Sanskrit script?
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
Date: Thursday, 7 January, 2010, 1:44 AM


"<Does anyone know if the habit of spending the winter in the plains or in Jammu was already established before the Dogra Raj?  >
In earlier times leaving the valley meant excommunication. A ceremony was held in honour of the 'departed'. A trip outside was not a normal thing. Those who made did not return. At present there is no trace of the practice and knowledgeable Pandits, those who live outside and those in Kashmir, never think of the return of those old days and custoims.
DB"

Thanks for this extraordinary fact.  I don't recall hearing of the brahmins of any other part of the subcontinent regarding migration as a cause for excommunication.

My Pandit friends (baby boomers) had ancestors in the Maharaja's administration.  They told me that when one was posted to the western parts of the kingdom, which are now in Azad Kashmir, their families would say goodbye to them as to someone going off to their death. But they said nothing about punishment, just about danger.

Allen

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