Re: Etruscans

I work on the basis of Puranas , which are used to explain the known facts and evidence.

The earliest known writing  belongs to Indus valley (if it is agreed as being writing) which belongs to around 3000 bce and there does not seem to be much evidence after that.

The full grown writing appears only much later in the inscriptions of Asoka who is post Buddha.

The traditionalist view  pushes him into the past by about 1500 years.

kishore patnaik

On Jan 18, 2008 8:41 PM, Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:

Regarding writing, there is no physical evidence of it in the Indian cultural area as early as the evidence in Mesopotamia, where we can see writing developing from pictograms used for labeling produce into glyphs for expressing non-economic information.

 

If you have contrary information, I would be interested to read it.

 

 

Patrick

 

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That Mayan has been influenced by several constructive elements of India are beyond doubt.

The main road blockers for such a theory however are found more general views, which would not trace the origins of  many cultural aspects to India , due to the differences in chronological patterns.

If the genealogical chronology  found in Indian scriptures is accepted at least partially, the western scholar would notice that the Indian culture has to be necessarily dated much earlier to many of the ancient civilization and hence, he would agree that the cultural constructive elements such as writing, star gazing, fire, wheel and several other essential aspects were originally  contributed by Indian culture.

When I say Indian culture, it only means what has been given in the scriptures.  For eg., the  puranas describe that  ancient flood has occurred in Iran Irag areas. Hence, while I describe this as Indian history, the geographical limit has to be extended.

regards,

Kishore patnaik

On Jan 18, 2008 12:04 AM, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

On 2008-01-17 19:14, Rick McCallister wrote:

> Mayan related to Sanskrit --that's a true howler

And here's a provisional introduction to the deciphered vocabulary of
Classical Maya:

http://www.mesoweb.com/resources/vocabulary/Vocabulary.pdf

Piotr