From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 51468
Date: 2008-01-19
----- Original Message -----From: kishore patnaikSent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 9:57 AMSubject: Re: [tied] Re: India first (Was: Etruscans)
I may clarify that I do not subscribe to India first- every thing does not come out of India.
kishore patnaik===========
What did India invent ?I can see nothing at all.Arnaud==================
I only try to explain the known archeological and other evidence on the basis of Puranas, which are not taken into account at all by most of the scholars.
That I am a Hindu has got nothing to do with since most of the names and places are secular and have no religious significance- for eg., what religious significance do the Mayans have? Not much. That they originated in India or East Africa will have no bearing on the religious dogma. Or that they are depicted as bad people in religion also have no meaning to the efforts to locate them . These are two mutually exclusive things.
Fitting things into Biblical chronology is not the same as reading Biblical genealogies. Same way, I am reading the Puranic genealogies and do not take the longish years described to the number of years of reign this king or life span o that sage into consideration. Those years have a different significance and unless we have the key to convert them into the real figures of years, they are of no use to the serious scholarly study of scriptural genealogies.============Do you have good psychiatrists in India ?Arnaud======================