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cybalist@yahoogroups.com,Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:
>> shivkhokra wrote:
>
>> I am saying that if dyaus is mentioned for the first time on the
>> planet earth in 2000 BC in Rg Veda and then 800 years later in
>> 1200 B.C he is mentioned again as Zeus with similar functions on
>> Linear B tablets in Crete, many thousand miles away, why is it
>> necessary to assume that Greeks and Rg Vedic people had a
>> common ancestor? Does'nt Occam's razor apply?
>
>
> Unfortunately the Rg Veda was not written in 2000 BCE but sometime
> around 500 CE because Sanskrit was not written until c. 400 CE. So
> your argument is pointless.
I am presenting some internal evidence from Vedic corpus.
RV 6.61.2:
iyáM shúSmebhir bisakhaá ivaarujat saánu giriiNaáM taviSébhir uurmíbhiH
paaraavataghniím ávase suvRktíbhiH sárasvatiim aá vivaasema dhiitíbhiH
She with her might, like one who digs for lotus-stems, hath burst with her strong waves the ridges of the hills.
Let us invite with songs and holy hymns for help Sarasvati who slayeth the Paravatas.
Panchvimsa Brahamana 25.10.16:
"At a distance of a journey of forty days on horseback from the spot where the Saraswati is lost in the sands of the desert is situated Plaska Prasarvana".
Vedic corpus remembers both a mighty Saraswati and a dried up Saraswati.
Modern hydro geologists tell us that Saraswati dried up before 1900 B.C.
What am I missing?
Shivraj