Why academicians don't do basic check & cross their ts and dot the is?😱. Here's a video of a professor from IIM, who hypothesizes river Ghaggar shouldn't be identified with Saraswati, based on a faulty translation & suspects Vedic hymn is changed! 1/3
One should look at the sources in original & not in translations. RigVeda text is available for all to check! Second, a word in a verse, confirming to a meter can't be randomly changed to something else without breaking the meter & Veda was never subject to change :-) 2/3
I wish people know this before making random allegations in the name of research😳.
Veda are called Sruti;They were not written down for millennia, because preserving them though sound was considered the best way to keep them intact, than to allow them to error prone writing. 3/3
@KannadathiVidya@LeviAckerman119@Djain87823794 There are many inscriptions where a king boasts destroying another king's capital - as far as I know, instances of destroying temples don't find a mention. Even when the inscriptions say "having burnt the town of xxx " , it is likely to be a literary figurative speak imo. 1/n
@KannadathiVidya@LeviAckerman119@Djain87823794 I can cite some inscriptions of Chalukyas and Pallavas but will have to look up, to prove the above point. On the other hand , there are indications where the king who won the enemy's capital, actually made grants to the temples there, for further upkeep and improvements 2/n
@KannadathiVidya@LeviAckerman119@Djain87823794 A famous example is the Chalukya inscriptions at the Rajasimhheshwara temple in Kanchi, after they won over the Pallavas. And why this temple was chosen, out of the many, many temples Kanchipuram had? Perhaps because it carried the name of the king Rajasimha - is my guess 3/n
@csmspeak@vschanna Thanks for prompting me to take a look!Here #PundarikaVItthala (a contemporary of Tansen) specifically lists Parasika ragas. He says Rahai, born of dEvagAndhAra, Nishabara in KanaDa , Mahur in sAranga, Suha in Kedara etc-clearly indicating KAnada not of pArasIka origin/influence
Here both shines were Shiva temples. There could be multiple reasons - Nagareswara for being the personal temple where the Kings worshipped was targeted first, and before they finished the job the Hoysala troups were able to guard Hoysaleshara? Your guess is as good as mine.
But the point is so called sahitis from Karnataka have normalized these to based on some random paper by one prof in Columbia. This is due to the white-skin-infliction. Where is thinking power when we need it?
Sorry to say the same trend in the latest historical novel as well.
@karatalaamalaka I think the language families in India can be explained by multiple migrations in prehistoric times; By historic times ( i.e. earliest archeological remains are at Mehrgarh, IIRC - which are 9000 years ago) - the two families had already settled in with some intermingling
@karatalaamalaka The due-east-Krittikas description put parts of the Veda at least around ~3000 BCE. the 1500- 600 BCE span as imaginged by Max Mueller must go back by at least 1500 years imo.
We have Vedanga Jyotisha corresponding to the sky situation ~1400 BCE (give or take a century)
@karatalaamalaka And VJ was NOT written outside of Saptasindhu - Very likely at the upper reaches of it like in Kashmira or in around Kubha river (Kabul) by the latitude indication. Definitely not much north or south of that location.
While reading works of #Shamba etc, we shouldn't forget their thoughts were clouded by colonial narratives. I find very strange and odd, fell for the black-white racist theories as well. The names like ಕಾಳವ್ವ, ಕರಿಯಪ್ಪ aren't specific to Kannada. Didn't we have काली & कृष्ण ?
How the bias does show up in #Shamba's writing. We should not forget a writer is product of their times.
Very clear #Shamba has totally fallen for the Dravida-Arya racist theories of the 18th-19th centuries.
Remember some podcast where doubts were cast about Kautalya's authorship of #Arthashastra, because of the "Kautalya says" quotes in there.
But that is the way of Samskrta/Bharatiya/Indian texts till much later. Here is a text from ~1650, of #MummaDiChikkaBhupala of such self-ref