[INDOLOGY] Earliest attestation of the elements in Indian thought?

Nagaraj Paturi nagarajpaturi at gmail.com
Thu Sep 1 02:16:20 UTC 2016


The article by B V Subbarayappa available in pdf here,
<http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=15&ved=0ahUKEwjbwZiYi-3OAhXEQY8KHYLkBXU4ChAWCCwwBA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dli.gov.in%2Frawdataupload%2Fupload%2Finsa%2FINSA_1%2F20005aef_60.pdf&usg=AFQjCNHxAq7GGQRti9-C_td8Y4IS2ZAE9A&sig2=BE63NPZiLDrergGTjiqMSA&bvm=bv.131669213,d.c2I>
mentions Maitri Upanishad to be the origin.

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 5:33 AM, rajam <rajam at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From the Tamil side …
>
> The Old Tamil text Purananuru (puṟanāṉūṟu, புறநானூறு) mentions the earth,
> sky, wind, fire, and water, and elegantly presents them as they are
> dovetailed.
>
> Regards,
> Rajam
>
>
> On Aug 31, 2016, at 11:11 AM, Dean Michael Anderson via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>
> *Date: *August 31, 2016 at 11:07:38 AM PDT
> *From: *Dean Michael Anderson <eastwestcultural at yahoo.com>
> *Reply-To: *Dean Michael Anderson <eastwestcultural at yahoo.com>
> *To: *Indology List <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Subject: **Earliest attestation of the elements in Indian thought?*
>
>
> Does anyone know which text has the earliest mention of the four or five
> elements?
>
> Best,
>
> Dean Anderson
> East West Cultural Institute
>
>
>
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-- 
Nagaraj Paturi

Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.

Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies

FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,

(Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA )


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