[INDOLOGY] Fwd: Fun media piece about the Mitanni: Sanskrit in Ancient Syria

[George Thompson]

Dear Nagaraj,

I apologize for misreading your message,  I have been dealing with family
issues, and so I have not been very attentive to this discussion  Thank you
for your patience,

George

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 1:19 AM, Nagaraj Paturi <nagarajpaturi at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Nagaraj Paturi <nagarajpaturi at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 10:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Fun media piece about the Mitanni: Sanskrit in
> Ancient Syria
> To: George Thompson <gthomgt at gmail.com>
>
>
> Dear Prof. Thompson,
>
> I was trying to see the 'fun' in the title of the thread inside the
> article. I brought out what I found.
>
> Its really fun.
>
> Whether modern Indians are celebrating Sanskrit or not, the author of the
> piece is celebrating his knowledge that the language was that of some
> pastoral nomads living outside the place where the people who have been
> attached to that language as their own, have been living for millennia,
> nurturing and nourishing it.
>
> Even if this is looked at as a fixation of a tendency originating during
> the early enlightenment period, the tendency of getting excited at and
> celebrating every discovery contradicting the traditional beliefs, it is
> fun that the tendency continues for so long after those days of its origin.
>
> Warm regards as ever,
>
> Nagaraj
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 12:46 AM, George Thompson <gthomgt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Prof. Paturi,
>>
>> These 'ancient pastoral nomads' were pre-literate.  They didn't write any
>> horse-training books.  The horse-training book was written by someone named
>> Kikkuli, and he wrote it in Hittite, not Vedic.  In his Hittite
>> horse-training manual there are some clearly pre-Vedic words that refer to
>> horse-training and certain Vedic gods.  Kikkuli was transcribing into
>> Hittite the words of these pre-Vedic nomads who taught the Hittites about
>> horse-training.
>>
>> The article that Dominik refers to is a a rather teasing critique of
>> Modi, et al.  It is not scholarly, but it gets the facts right for the most
>> part.  Its main point is that the OIT theory is not supported by any good
>> evidence.  It cites reliable sources like Anthony and the encyclopedia of
>> IE by Mallory and Adams.  If you want to consider what Vedicists think
>> about this, see Mayrhofer and Thieme, just as a start.
>>
>> Best wishes, as always,
>>
>> George
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Nagaraj Paturi <nagarajpaturi at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The article has this sentence:
>>>
>>> So much so that 3,500 years later, modern Indians would celebrate the
>>> language of these ancient pastoral nomads all the way out in Bangkok city.
>>>
>>> The sentence matches with the earlier part of the article, if  'ancient
>>> pastoral nomads' is improved as 'ancient pastoral charioteer
>>> horse-trainer-book-writing mercenary hymn-singing hymn-documenting nomads'
>>>
>>>
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>>> Prof.Nagaraj Paturi
>>> Hyderabad-500044
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