Guest guest Posted January 13, 2002 Report Share Posted January 13, 2002 IndianCivilization/message/16227 This URL is a rather long extract from the concluding lecture of a ten-lecture series delivered by Prof. Satya Swarup Misra. In my humble opinion, this constitutes a well-argued statement from an I-E linguist who has, since 1968, written many books on the Comparative Grammar of Sanskrit, Greek and Hittite (and many other Indo-European languages). "India presents the oldest record of the Indo-European language family. The language of Rigveda presents archaism unparalleled with any other branch of Indo-European…it seems quite likely that India was the original home of Aryans (or Indo-Europeans). The date of Rigveda as shown above must be beyond or much beyond 5000 BCE."(pp. 73-77) Source: Satya Swarup Misra, 1999, The date of the Rigveda and the Aryan Migration, Pune, Centre of Advanced Study in Sanskrit, University of Pune [based on ten lectures, delivered during August 1997, at the Centre of Advanced Study in Sanskrit in the University of Pune by Prof. Misra, Department of Linguistics, Banaras Hindu University provide details of the linguistic evidence.] For extacts in pdf format (NB: each URL is a very large sized file), email kalyan97 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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