[INDOLOGY] Fwd: Read the Sanskrit texts: Why both Rajiv Malhotra and his critics are wrong about plagiarism

[Dipak Bhattacharya]

Please read

*Die Religion des Veda*

*DB*

On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Dipak Bhattacharya <dipak.d2004 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> There has been some interesting discussion on what should be regarded as
> plagiarism and what should not come into the category. Will colleagues
> enlighten if there is any trace of taking something from someone without
> acknowledgement in the following citations.
>
> “Die Sonne war doch allzusehr eine Potenz für sich, als dass die
> Auffassung von ihr als Feuer erheblichere Bedeutung hätte haben können ”
> H.Oldenberg *Die religion des Veda* 1894;1917:109
>
> “The solar aspect of Agni’s nature is not often mentioned, the sun being
> too individual a phenomenon to be generally conceived as a form of fire”.
> A.A. Macdonell  *Vedic Mythology*1897:93 (1963repr.Varanasi)
>
> “But this side (i.e. the solar side DB)” of the nature of Agni is little
> referred to; the sun was too great and prominent a deity to be treated
> merely as a form of Agni” A.B.Keith *RPVU* HOS 31,32; 1925: 156.
>
> As far as I know till now nobody drew attention to the remarkable
> similarity in language and idea
>
> Best
>
> DB
>
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Ashok Aklujkar <ashok.aklujkar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Colleagues,
>>
>> I admire Dominik for his immediate public correction of an earlier remark
>> of his. However, if I had known that he was going to forward my
>> communication to the List, I would have made its wording a little bit more
>> grammatical and not allowed it to retain its ‘note-to-a-friend’ form.
>> Please delete “about” from “not about a marker” and change “his sentence”
>> to “his/her sentence”. It would also have been better if I had alerted
>> Dominik with some such heading as “Not for forwarding to the List, at least
>> not yet.”. Sorry for the extra reading you all had to do.
>>
>> a.a.
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