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Aug 27

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This seems to be the massive book form treatment of Zoller's hypothesis. While I have not read the book, I have read his paper on the same. Entirely independently, based on some obvious linguistic signals &multiple lines of philological evidence, I have always favored the idea of

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the Aryan invasion in multiple waves along with the initial straddling of the steppe and the subcontinental zones. His provides a new version of the Inner-Outer IA hypothesis. Essentially he posits that only the inner lects are descendants of Vedic & subsequent Sanskrit while the

the outer lects are descendants of distinct para-Vedic lects that had some archaisms inherited from IE>I-Ir that did not come into Vedic& its daughters. Where we differ from his ideas is that the progenitors of outer lects had arrived in the subcontinent before Vedic -- they were

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Aug 12

A bucket with the images of the ongod-s of the shamans of the Qorchin tribe of Mongols. They are the descendants of Chingiz Khan's brother Qasar & his followers. At the time of the rise of the Tungusic lord Nurhachi who founded the Manchu empire they broke away from their cousins

to join the resurgent Tungus & were major factor in their dominance & power down to the battles with the Europeans in China -- the last blaze of Mongol prowess. Their shamans curiously claim descent from Kököchü the shaman of the Khan who caused a major fight between him& Qasar

The Khan's wife later warned him of the rifts Kököchü was causing & he was eliminated by the 3 wrestlers when the shaman's brothers tried to fall on the Khan himself. The ongod-s, like those shown above, are the deities & ghosts that possess the shamans. They worship a subset of

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Jul 15

Political orientation is something that rises from deep within; as we have noted before, it has a biological basis. There might be some truth to its relationship with polymorphism in odorant receptors. There is something like reaching your "preferred station" -- an equilibrium

Some people reach that point early in life (that was my case). However, due to environment, others might not immediately do so.The journey to the fixed point might be a gradual spiral or through chaotic fluctuations. Many go through chaos in the 20s/30s but in small number it may

take them till their 50s to get to their home. Yet they all converge. Because of chaos in the 20s/30s that several experience, their friends/fellow travelers might express regret or frustration over their "sudden change". In reality, they are simply finding their home. A careful

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Jul 12

To put it politely early bauddha tantra-s incorporated material from H tantra-s which have been lost. For example, the ma~njushrIya mUlakalpa has the short mantra-s of the chaturbhaginI & mentions tumburu of the vAmasrotas. They are worshipped in a boat in the midst of the ocean

the chaturbhaginI & tumburu are also incorporated into the related bauddha text, the tArA mUlakalpa. The ma~njushrIya tradition has a kaumAra mantra keeping with the deity being called kumAra-bhUta or kArttikeya-ma~njushrI:

tadyathA OM | maheshvarasya suto ghoraH kumAra mahAkumAra krIDa krIDa ShaNmukha bodhisattvAnuj~nAta mayUrAsana shaktyudyatapANi raktA~Nga rakta-gandhAnulepana-priya kha kha khAhi khAhi khAhi | huM nR^itya nR^itya | rakta-puShpArchita-mUrti samayam anusmara

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Jul 10

https://twitter.com/pashyaka/status/1677740011356028930

There are two separate issues: 1. mode of recitation; 2. divergence between shAkhA. Regarding the 1st, I know some people have special views & get hot like wood being drilled on hearing this; so don't @ me. However, posting my view here since more than one person asked in the

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past few days. Yes, there are regional peculiarities of recitations & substratal effects (particularly strong in some kali~Nga traditions). However, I don't think these are serious differences. Looking at the totality of the surviving traditions it may be said, broadly there was

1 ancestral recitational mode that has 2 variants: 1. where every long svarita was duplicated (RV, SYV-K, AV); 2. where only those before consonants & sentence ends were (KYVs). This type (probably both modes) go back to when the Aryans 1st conquered India& probably stemmed

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Jul 10

https://twitter.com/pashyaka/status/1677739471909863424

It is true that the kR^iShNayajurveda schools died out in their K-P heartland. There is not objective evidence that this happened due to the shu~Nga-s or kANva-s. We have insufficient inscriptions to give a precise answer. However, where we have more inscriptions we get an idea

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of the dynamic. Once taittirIyaka-s were seen in va~Nga, kali~Nga & nepAla; however, now they are pratically extinct except for recent immigrants. They have greatly declined in lATAnarta & vidarbha. The charaka-s were likewise in va~Nga & kaTha-s possibly in prAgjyotiSha. But

those are completely extinct. Instead, only shAkhA that survives is madhyaMdina or kANva (kali~Nga). The model in those regions was an aggressive spread of vAjasaneya-s which might even go back to the early period when 1 of the early proponents (seen as founder) of that tradition

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