Re: Hindu noise-makers, Elst and OIT -- a review of book by Harald

From: Bhrihskwobhloukstroy
Message: 71443
Date: 2013-10-20

How do You dare to presume that? Indology in Western Eurasia, as well
in Russia and Japan, implies both competences

2013/10/20, shivkhokra@... <shivkhokra@...>:
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> Hmmm. Have you checked with him if he can:
> a) Read Rg Veda in Devanagari?
> b) Can Understand the grammar and Sandhi rules?
>
> Because if you had checked he would tell you he cannot do either a) or b).
>
> Regards,
> Shivraj
> ---In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, <cybalist@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Then he is a Vedic Scholar and You should beg his pardon
>
> 2013/10/19, shivkhokra@... mailto:shivkhokra@... <shivkhokra@...
> mailto:shivkhokra@...>:
> > Vedic scholar or a scholar of any other language be it Greek or Russian
> or
> > whatever ought to be able to read the language natively as in have the
> > ability to read primary sources and understand its Grammar.
> >
> >
> > They should know what is written in multitude of texts of that language.
> >
> >
> >
> > ---In cybalist@yahoogroups.com mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com,
> <cybalist@yahoogroups.com mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> >
> > Please give us a definition of "Vedic Scholar" and I'll tell You
> > whether Dr Brighenti fits in or not.
> > For Your information, I side with the Theory that Indo-Aryan in
> > indigenous both in India and outside it and that every other
> > Indo-European language class is indigenous in the area of its first
> > records, so that Proto-Indo-European was the language of the first
> > Homines sapientes in each of these areas. To my eyes, both AIT and
> > Aryan-Invasion–from-India-Theory emanate from the same prejudice -
> > Short Glottochronology
> >
> >
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