From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 70132
Date: 2012-10-09
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"No. It's a list of Indo-Aryan names.
> <bm.brian@...> wrote:
>> At 7:42:04 PM on Wednesday, October 3, 2012, shivkhokra
>> wrote:
>>> Mitanni kings had Indo-Aryan names such as Suwar-data
>>> ("given by the sun").
>>> A treaty concluded in the 14th century BC between king
>>> Shupiluliuma and the Mitanni king Matiwaza lists Aryan
>>> gods. Eg: Mitra-Varuna, Indara, Nasatyas. These are
>>> Vedic Gods.
>>> Kikkuli a Mitanni wrote about horses and horse races.
>>> Lingustic forms he uses are typically Indic: E.g.
>>> aika-wartana "one round" contains the numeral aika.
>>> This implies Sanskrit was in use in the Mitanni time.
>> No, it doesn't. It merely shows that the Mitanni had some
>> kind of contact with an Indo-Aryan language and culture.
> Here is a rather smallish list of Sanskrit names from the
> Mitanni kingdom:
> The data does support that Mitanni knew Sanskrit.No, they don't.