>Do you have anything of scientific substance to say, or are
you just interested in making political statements?
>Brian
Actually I do, now that i have everyone's attention. Here are a couple
of quotes from "The Astronomical Code of the Rig Veda," Subhash Kak,
2000, Munshiram Manoharla Publishers, New Dehli.
"The situation of the Indo-Europeans in the east has not been
throughly analyzed as one in the west. Often the scholars who have
generalized from the European evidence to the Indo-European model have
had a flawed understanding of the Indo-Iranian situation. Most of the
linguistic evidence marshalled by these scholars has been based on
Sanskrit and the wealth of independent linguistic data from the
Prakrit languages has been unavialble to them (p. 26)."
"For example, a hypothesis was advanced regarding the original
homeland of the Indo-Europeans taking the postulated world *mori,
"sea" to have been known only in Europe and Ossetic. But this is
wrong since these linguists d(o) not know that Kashmiri, an Indo-Aryan
language, has precisely the same word in the orginal meaning of swamp,
marsh land or lake (p. 27)."
Even in Marathi "mori" means a place to wash, which in the old days
before plumbing must have meant a place where water is readily
available. In an urabn environment people now use it to indicate a
bathroom or sometimes a sink. This goes back to my original comment
about Indian scholars, for whatever reason, and i am not accusing any
one of anything, being marginalized in the field of IE linguistic.