Re: Mitanni and Matsya

Who is Kakawallah? what is kaka??

IA adstrate upon Hittite languages is long established but why pre vedic? When obviously their documents are listing vedic gods after a long  list of Sumerian etc gods? There is no proof to show that Varuna et al were pre vedic gods.

The IA roots of Mitanni is no doubt strained reading but calling Mitanni pre vedic is casual reading.

Kishore patnaik



 

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

Sounds like the Kaka-wallah is full of kaka. My
understanding is that the Mitanni language was related
to Urartean and had Indo-Aryan pre-Vedic adstrate. I
believe Witzel says the same thing. Remember that the
Vedas weren't written down until writing reached India
c. 400 BCE. In any case, the Vedas could not have been
written until well after the events they purport to
cover occurred, and these events happened after the
fall of the Harappan civlization.

--- kishore patnaik <kishorepatnaik09@...>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> In an article, Subhash Kak tries to establish that
> Mitanni is an
> aryan. post vedic civilization.
>
> Witzel does not say whether Mitannis are aryans but
> he finds their
> language is pre archaic sanskrit and hence, places
> rig veda in post
> 1500 period.
>
> Any comments on these ideas?
>
> Kishore patnaik
>

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