Re: [cybalist] SV: Re: avestan and vedic

At 16:09 2000-04-15 VET, you wrote:

The Saraswati once ran more or less parallell to the Indus about 50-100 km
to the SE. It was fed by the Jumna and Sutlej. However tectonic movement in
the Himalayan foothills first diverted Jumna to the Ganges system and later
Sutlej into the Beas/Indus leaving Saraswati dry.

Tommy Tyrberg

>Hello:
>Can anyone tell me where is that river?
>Thanx
>Manuel
>
>>From: "Urban Lindqvist" <urban.lindqvist@...>
>>Reply-To: cybalist@egroups.com
>>To: <cybalist@egroups.com>
>>Subject: [cybalist] SV: Re: avestan and vedic
>>Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:42:19 +0200
>>
>> > From: John Croft <jdcroft@...>
>> >
>> > As for the Vedic language, I know that the River Saraswati is
>> > mentioned in the early Vedas, and on geological evidence that is
>> > supposed to have dried up about 1,500 BCE. On this ground, Sanscrit
>> > is a lot earlier than Avestan, although of course such evidence needs
>> > to be taken carefully.
>> >
>> > Homer for instance, knew of a late Mycenaean seige of Troy, but the
>> > language he wrote in was Ionian Greek, far removed from the
>> > Paleo-Arcadian dialect the Mycenaeans are supposed to have spoken.
>> > A similar set of events may have also occurred with Sanscrit.
>>
>>Yes, we mustn't forget that the languages of the Homeric poems and the
>>Rigvedic hymns are both highly formulaic and traditional (as is Avestan).
>>Any attempt to establish a terminus ante quem is therefore highly
>>dangerous.
>>
>>Urban
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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