Re: 'dyeus' chronology

At 5:55:02 AM on Tuesday, March 8, 2011, shivkhokra wrote:

> Dear Dr Brighenti,

> Pronunciation of anusvar sound in sanskrit word "Sundhi"
> <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%BF#Sans\
> krit>> (meaning junction) (it is *not* pronounced rhyming with english
> word "sand" as one might believe reading the english spelling)

Irrelevant.

> and the sanskrit words "sunghar or singhar"
> <http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.6:1:40.apte>
> (meaning destruction) and "sunhrutra or sinhrutra"
> <http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.6:1:39.apte>
> (meaning destroyer) is *identical* and the sound one would
> hear is an "n" sound. In otherwords the anusvar ("the dot
> character in devnagari") corresponds with the letter "n"
> in the syllabic spellings given above.

Also irrelevant.

> In contrast the anusvar in RV 1.1.1
> <http://tinyurl.com/rv111> is pronounced differently and
> the words "Purohitam" and "Hotaram" (just look for the two
> words with "." above them in the first sukta) are spelt
> syllabically with m sound as I have written.

Yet more irrelevance. Francesco addressed examples of this
type in his post.

> You have just proved my assertion of anusvar understanding
> given in the previous post.

One the contrary, you've just proved that you didn't
understand what Francesco wrote, and you're starting to make
a good case that your understanding of anusvAra is weak.

Brian