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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Juha Savolainen" <juhavs@...> wrote:
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>
> Dear list,
>
> In view of the ever-interesting topic of the arrival of Indo-European
> languages to Indian subcontinent, list members may be interested to
> know that Asko Parpola has recently made available his
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> The Nâsatyas, the chariot and Proto-Aryan religion
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> It can be downloaded at
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> http://www.helsinki.fi/~aparpola/pub_int.html
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> Cheers, Juha Savolainen
>
A new book on Asvins:
https://www.vedamsbooks.com/no39398.htm
Asvin : The Twin Gods in Indian Mythology, Literature and Art/K.P.
Jog. Delhi, Pratibha Prakashan, 2005, xvii, 404 p., ISBN 81-7702-088-9.
"I (Kazanas) discuss the subject of vehicles and spoked wheels
indicating that the technology for them was available earlier in India
than in the Near East and quote S. Piggott to the effect that a more
spohisticated type of vehicle with "one or two pairs of wheels with
their axles" is known "from the Rhine to the Indus around 3000 BC
(Kazanas 2001, p. 6)."
http://f4.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/kP0ARDI2e24FwSkkQmK9IObHSStESErAaIFFv6XdXMTxTje9nXIIaVtg05YCZZsjZ8KwwGGTTK03E4sHKQH8_euQTnUdlsFj2w/aitandscholarship.pdf
M. Kelkar