Re: [tied] Digest Number 2778

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Koechlin <d.koechlin@...> wrote:

>
> On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 09:37 +0000, mkelkar2003 wrote:
> > HATING HINDUS IN A `SCHOLARLY' WAY
>
> Are yaar ! Ye kya hai ? Do you really think that European scholars hate
> Hindus (followers of the Hindu religion) ?

That is the title of the Agarwal (2006) article. I just reproduced
the portions related to horses and chariots.

> What has religion got to do with science ?



> Do you believe that the Ramayana and the other Hindu epics are

factually true ?

Yes.

Do you believe that warriors on chariots lived in India over 10

> 000 years ago ?

Yes. Pleople lived there. And they surely fought possibly with
chariots or on foot. Chariots can have solid wheels and they could be
pulled by dogs, bulls, onager and yes the central asian horse.

Do you believe that Sanskrit (or the Vedic Languages)

> was the first language to be spoken by man ?

No.

> I trust you do not hold these views, for they have more to do with
> religious fundamentalism than with scientific thinking.
>
> Daniel Koechlin

I hold 2 of the above 3. They do not make me a religious fundamentalist.

M. kelkar

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