Re: Ban all non academic discussions

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

> 1.
>
>
> > 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.

Wikipedia
Pāṇini (IAST: Pāṇini,
Devanāgarī:
पाणिनि; a
patronymic meaning "descendant of Pani") was an
ancient Indian grammarian from Gandhara (fl. 4th
century BC

The 1st script in any Indo-Aryan language is brahmi,
whose 1st known samples are a bit after that date but
plausibly existed in Panini's time. Brahmi is
obviously based on Semitic writing and probably
arrived via contact with the Persian empire, which was
founded c. 6th c. BC. It's linked specifically with
Aramaic, which became the lingua franca of the Persian
empire.

Astrology is non-scientific. Sacred texts are
non-scientific. Alchemy is non-scientific.
The linguistic dating of Hindu sacred texts, which
uses scientific inquiry has reliably dated when the
books were written.
The entry of the Indo-Aryans has been reliably dated.
So why do you wish to spread fantasy on a list
dedicated to scientific inquiry?

> 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
>

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