Thread by @hamsanandi

A good reason why people writing about India/Indian history/Indian arts/sciences should know Indian languages!

Is there any reason to believe this hypothesis?

Is there any record where such restrictions really existed in major temples?

(Krishneshvara referred to here is the Ellora Kailasanatha temple)

.cc @swamin400 @hsraghav

There is quite a bit of difference between a work of grammar and a work of poetics.

#Kavirajamarga #Amoghavarsha #AKST

While #Kavirajamarga is the earliest available work - it already refers to earlier works. Recent research has shown the so called #Vaddaradhane also predates #KVM.
As a work of poetics,this could come only after sufficient literature was already there.Not the other way. #AKST

I am pretty sure , #Amoghavarsha #Nrpatunga would not have though of himself as "South Asian", of all things. 🤦‍♂️

(The very same authors, like #AKST would pose problems if someone called Amoghavarsha as an "Indian" "Bharateeya" king, because they say there was no India till 1947!

#AKST too eager to imply temple plundering,while there is hardly any proof. In fact we have inscriptions stating otherwise, of a king providing grants to a temple which was built by his adversary.
Inscriptions talk about plundering towns - mostly never abt temples.
#Rashtrakuta

Too much imagination, in my opinion. If anyone knows about how verses were (are) memorized, it is extremely likely #Chalukya #Tailapa's family already know these verses through oral tradition - and did not have to "dispatch scolars to" Aihole! #AKST

#Chalukya #Rashtrakuta