Re: dating of aryans

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

> Studying at the Indic Aryans in the larger context
> of the world history is
> the essential key to the dating of the Aryans. With
> such an exercise in
> mind, I have , in my own way, tried to formulate
> certain basic issues, some
> of them essentially linguistic, within the
> framework of my readings.
>
> One issue that has caught the imagination of this
> group in this connection
> is the complex languages of primitive tribes.
>
> When I said primitive tribes, as the Indic Aryans
> imagined to be, can not
> have complex languages, I am not alluding to the
> mere constructive
> elements, such as vocabulary, phonology or even,
> grammar.
>
> The poetic imagery of Rg veda is without a parallel.
> The complexities of
> sanskrit philology presents the best of the
> scholars with several puzzled
> moments.
>
> If the Indic Aryans could develop a language with
> elements of such rich
> content, it is rather weird that they are painted as
> less civilized than
> some of their contemporaneous cultures.
>
> The other points, if at all, are only tangentially
> touched.
>
> Kishore patnaik
>

Keep in mind that the Vedas were not finished until
India was a classic civilization. The Vedas were not
some sort of travel diary or chronicle that were
updated every day during the journey over the Hindu
Kush. They evolved into what they are today. They
began to be written at least 1,000 years after the
Indo-Aryans became a sedentary people.
But many so-called primitive peoples have very
sophisticated poetry.

There are also parallels to the Vedas in the Popol
Vuh, written about 500 years or so after the Quiché
invaded Highland Guatemala and formed a sophisticated
civilization. Unfortunately, most Mayan literature
from all regions was destroyed during or shortly after
the conquest.

The Aztecs, who were originaly nomads, then
mercenaries, and finally the overlords of an empire,
also had a brilliant literature, most of which was
destroyed.


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