Fw: Re: [tied] RE: RE: Hindu noise-makers, Elst and OIT -- a review

[ Oh what the hell I'll offer a couple elementary criticisms of this one ]

The very opening line of your post doesnt look decent (mrighovaach in vedic terms), you should maintain it, in such a case, I wd prefer to not to respond any further, although, the point that you made below on Uralic, Eddas, Germanic oral tradidtion and poetries etc is bit interesting, however, difficult to find consistent use of defined meters in these poetries.

I no where said Aryan Invasion from Inda/ Aryan Invasion to India, rather, what I am saying is Aryan Expansion From India to external world as is evident from Vedic Texts.

I don't include Greeks among Aryans, however, E POCOCKE and other have written enough about Indian presence in Greece.

Lalit Mishra

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Subject: RE: Re: [tied] RE: RE: Hindu noise-makers, Elst and OIT -- a review of book by Harald

Oh what the hell, I'll offer a couple elementary criticisms of this one:

.... I think you're essentially siding with the "Aryan Invasion From India" countertheory here? This conclusion seems to be circular, based on the assumption that whatever meter patterns existed in Sanskrit must have also existed in PIE. This is trivially false: distinct meters are found in Ancient Greek literature.

I gather you are ruling out e.g. Greek literature or Germanic

This argument again already circularly preassumes that the Vedic system is the "most original", in which no innovations have occurred.

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