From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61613
Date: 2008-11-14
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From: kishore patnaik
Arnaud,
Your obsession with Damezil is harmful to your own (academic) health, if you
are left out with some.
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I'd be grateful if you could write Dumézil correctly.
I'm afraid you are confusing curry with kari.
It's Dumezil with -u- not -a-
Thank you.
IPA [dymezi:l]
As for my health,
I'm fine.
I'm left out with some health,
Thank you again for caring (or curing ?).
A.
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Kings need not be warriors always except in some warrior tribes.
For e.g, in some African tribes (and perhaps, in some European tribes too,
which will make it relevant for our discussions), it is the priest who
performed the royal functions too.
He never led the wars (mostly cattle raids).
Kishore patnaik
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This statement of yours really sounds funny, you know.
As India is clearly a place where ra:jans are in the Kshatriya category.
It's odd you are overlooking this obvious feature of Indian ra:jans
and stating that this feature fits warrior tribes,
Maybe you made some unvoluntary good statement,
yes, Indic-speaking "warrior tribes" (your word) had good "kings"
and that's why they won the leadership over half (in not all) India.
It's indeed relevant for our discussions.
A.