From: shivkhokra
Message: 64816
Date: 2009-08-18
> --- On Tue, 8/18/09, shivkhokra <shivkhokra@...> wrote:So what is the problem? Key is he was not a yavan!
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>George,
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> --- In cybalist@... s.com, george knysh <gknysh@> wrote:
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> > ****GK: It's not really a "debate". You (and others) have made points on which debate is no longer permissible (e.g. the source and shifting meaning of "yavana" in Sanskrit etc.) If your respondent does not accept this (or totally ignores it, per non est, as he seems to be doing)
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> I am not sure I understand. Francesco has said that yavanas were greeks and one of his sources was Mahabharata. Infact this connection of yavans with Greeks is considered the sheet-anchor for the dating of Mahabharata to post alexandrian times. I merely pointed out that if we are using MbH as a source then we ought to consider all references of yavana in that book. We cannot apply backward or forward (whatever the case maybe) in time the meanings of words as known to us.
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> A Yavana king in Mbh is Bhagdatta who is described as a ruler of modern Assam. My question to Francesco was what greeks were settled in Assam and could he confirm the identity of this ruler from the greek sources. So how am I using non-established?
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> Shivraj
>Let's compare this scenario to that of my g-g-g-g-g-g-grandfather Hokoleskwa (AKA "Cornstalk"). He was Indian but lived in Ohio and Pennsylvania c. 1778.
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