Sarasvati, makSU ... avo vRNImahe!
Haraxvaiti, moSu mee jauua avanghe!
V. Agarwal allows:
>Of course, you are most welcome to accept the sukha = axle hole
equation.
Many thanks indeed, for the permission, I am deeply touched.
But: he should check the RV *himself* first, *then* judge 150 years of
scholarship.
Not judge etymologies by emotion.
Basic rule of philology, ahem, science.
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Chris Wallis: "please pause and erase the offending lines from your
email before sending it."
Take a look at some gems from the pen of...
V. Agarwal reigns himself in:
>> lest Dr. Witzel says with his foul-mukha that I
>>am indulging hate-mongering
(!!!)
>Dr. Witzel said:
>Just check 'foul' in the archives, you will discover its author.
V. Agarwal advises:
> ... So maybe you need to take a course in psychology.
V. Agrawal decrees:
>... Since you are yourself so durmukha,
> you cannot appreciate the need for people to be polite in such
matters.
(???)
V. Agarwal judges:
>After all, we are all too familiar with your Hast-in
dveep-in type logic,
>that I find quite infantile
<
and check on many more, before...
MW comments:
0000,7777,0000any comments ???
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So, now we have :
* Several INDOLOGY members'
(FFFF,0000,0000Vidhyanath Rao, S. Subrahmanya,
SNS, TAREK WANI, VISHAL AGARWAL) invention of 'my' chariot
panzers, etc. (see my gem collection of 2/13),
* FFFF,0000,0000Rajarshi Banerjee's new
attempt at imputing words to me (17 Mar 2000 22:12:39) "you ... belive
in chariots armies used to herd cows" (WHERE did I write that,
ksaamyataam ??),
* and a small selection of the collected writings of
FFFF,0000,0000V. Agarwal, above (who
cannot even keep private correspondence to
himself,0000,0000,FFFF BEWARE!).
What, pray, irks them?
Old proverb: "Many enemies, much honor."
Ceterum censeo: ye vaa bhadraM duuSayanti ...
(VASISTHA, Rgveda)
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Michael Witzel
Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies, Harvard University
2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138
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