Re: Aryan invasion theory and race

From: tgpedersen
Message: 64950
Date: 2009-08-25

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "frabrig" <frabrig@...> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "shivkhokra" <shivkhokra@> wrote:
>
> > Francesco you are not following (deliberately?) some fundamental
> > points in this debate:
> >
> > a) Yavans of Sanskrit Literature *were not* Greeks...
> >
> > b) Hinduism had no formula to convert anyone to Hinduism...

If we assume Hinduism was a universalist system at that time, then the assignment of Hindu castes to foreigners would just be a case of 'interpretatio Indica'; only in the meeting with another religion with universalist aspirations would it become necessary at all to formulate a transition formula.

> >
> > c) Genetic data is confirming points a) and b)...
>
> YAWN...YAWn...YAwn...Yawn...yawn...ZZZ...ZZz...zzzzzzzzzzzzz
>
> FB
>

Torsten