Re: Witzel and Sautsutras (was: Mapping the Origins and Expansion of

At 10:59:18 PM on Saturday, October 13, 2012, shivkhokra
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

>> Because the ancestors of the Mitanni, the putative
>> pre-Iranian Indians and putative Crimean "Bosphorus
>> Aryans" were never in India. They moved in from Central
>> Asia. Indo-Aryan is part of Indo-Iranian, which was
>> originally located in the Eurasia steppe. Read Witzel and
>> overcome your lack of knowledge

> You know I have read Witzel and he is plain wrong.

I see no reason to believe that you're qualified to judge.

> Let me give an example:

[...]

> The impression that Witzel is creating is that 18.44
> somehow indicates an immigration from west to east only.
> Infact what the verse says is the opposite.

I'd trust Witzel's translation *long* before I'd trust
yours. He's a scholar who's spent a lifetime working with
the subject; you're an ideologue with an axe to grind.

Brian