From: Rick McCallister
Message: 57659
Date: 2008-04-19
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Kishore patnaik". . .
> <kishorepatnaik09@...> wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I think it is time we maintain some decorum on
> this group and ban
> > all non academic issues such as abusing others,
> discussing
> > personalities, questioning the credentials and so
> on.
> >
> > Let us assume that I post on dating on MBh, saying
> that the event
> > has occured in 3000 bce,
>
> Based on IEL theory alone Mahabharata cannot be that
> old. The
> linguistic dating of Rig Veda (which is clearly
> older than the date of
> the War itself or its currently available recorded
> version) is based
> on Hittite inscriptions dated to around 1700 BCE,
> Vedic Sanskrit being
> younger than Hittite. What about the tradition that
> dates Rig Veda
> about 4500 BCE or earlier? Prof Jay Kumar one of the
> few Hindu
> scholars formally trained in IEL apparently has an
> explanation.
>