From: kishore patnaik
Message: 57664
Date: 2008-04-19
f you write something claiming the Mahabharata was
written 3.000 BCE, then you're guilty of violating the
non-academic policy --since the only basis of
postulating such an idea is irrational blind faith.
It's like the science of the tooth fairy, nothing to
it. So lets us be appalled when you violate the rules
of common sense.
2,
As I said, spurious non-academic presentations of
fantasy deserve to be the focus of ridicule.
3,
Devanagari is one of the many scripts derived from the
Brahmi script (3rd c. BCE), which itself was probably
loosely adapted from one of the Semitic scripts.
I think all the above comments show the closed thinking of the authors. My concept of MBh dating is based on scientific calculations.
Mbh was clearly known by the time of Panini and Kautilya, whose times themselves are a matter of contention depending upon whether you accept sandrocottus as the anchor sheet or not.
In any case, since both the parties know that what I am writing is not accepted by mainstream, it does well to talk something academic instead of making adjectival statements, which will not take us anywhere.
I hope the members keep this thing in view.
Kishore patnaik