From: george knysh
Message: 13257
Date: 2002-04-14
> My earlier response was brief and hence I could not*****GK: Let's just deal with this one issue before
> predict if it
> would raise more questions, rather than answering
> them. Please see
> below -
>
> --- In cybalist@..., george knysh <gknysh@...>
> wrote:
> > --- vishalsagarwal <vishalagarwal@...> wrote:
> > *****GK: Are you suggesting that there are no
> "Vedic
> > hymns [which] commemorate or invoke divine support
> > for the destruction of their enemies and the
> storming
> > of their citadels." ?? In other words Mallory is
> > fibbing? And the next sentence he wrote viz.,
> "This is
> > to be accomplished with the assistance of their
> horses
> > and chariots, a technique of warfare apparently
> > unknown to the Indus civilization..." is
> meaningless
> > and also with no backing in the Vedic texts?*****
> VA: Mallory's statement was outdated even when he
> wrote his book.
> Indologists no longer construe the word 'pura' in RV
> as a 'citadel'
> or 'fort' these days. See -
> RAU, Wilhelm. 1976. The Meaning of Pur in Vedic
> Literature.
> Abhandlungen der Marburger Gelehrten Gesellschaft.
> Munich (Germany)
>
> RAU is accepted by Witzel, Elizarenkova and a host
> of other
> Indologists.