From: shivkhokra
Message: 70150
Date: 2012-10-10
>Please give some examples on how Indo Aryan is different than Sanskrit.
> At 9:18:31 PM on Monday, October 8, 2012, shivkhokra wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> > <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:
>
> No. It's a list of Indo-Aryan names.
>