Some interesting sites

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www.iish.org (http://www.iish.org)


www.shuyna.net (http://www.shuyna.net)

http://http://www.psitek.net/index2.html

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Hi
Thanks for sharing sites but below ones are offline
" www.shuyna.net (http://www.shuyna.net/)
http://http://www.psitek.net/index2.html " (http://http//www.psitek.net/index2.html)

Hara Hara Mahadev

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Namaste all, Iwould like you to consider exploring a good Indology (and Greek) website run by Nicholas Kazanas, a contemporary Greek Scholar.

http://www.omilosmeleton.gr/en/indology_en.asp (http://www.omilosmeleton.gr/en/indology_en.asp)

The astronomical data was judiciously used by astrophysicists to calculate the timing of Mahabharata epic events and thus derived the actual time of Mahabharata itself. As one should know the occurrences of celestial events like lunar/solar eclipse and lining of some planets in a linear manner etc will happen in acircular and repetitive manner and are realtime events which are trackable using the astronomical tables and other relevant calculations and data. These celestial events were periodically highlighted in Mahabharata epic (not on the fringes but very significantly, like time of death of Bishma etc) coinciding with the events in the epic.

NicholasKazanas' scientific work was based on a different model to time the Rig veda for example. He was tracking the appearance and mention of cities and rivers and the like based on world history sources and Sanskrit terminology itself etc. He talks of saraswathi river that was prominently talked about in the vedas, the river which dried up and disappeared after the vedic times! It makes a fascinating study IMHO. He worked onboth Greek (his native land) and Hindu history, and part of his work can beread on his above website. Some excerpts:

The RV predates the Sindhu-Sarasvati Culture' by N. Kazanas
This paper was presented synoptically by Dr N. Kazanas at the Conference THESINDHU-SARASVATI VALLEY CIVILIZATION: A REAPPRAISAL, in Los Angeles (Feb 2009).
Argument: There are misconceptions about rigvedic pur (town), ratha (chariot) and samudra (ocean) based on the Aryan Invasion/Immigration myth. Then, there are some 10 characteristic features of the Sarasvati-Sindhu Culture which are not found in the Rig Veda. Moreover palaeoastronomical evidence (mainly N. Achar's work) places some BrAhmaNa texts c 3000 and the oldest layers of the MahAbhArata 3067. All this (and more) suggests that the (bulk of the) Rig Veda should be assigned to well before 3200 BCE - however unpalatable to mainstream thought this may be.

……….14. Since,according to the preceding discussion we must now assign the (bulk of the) RVto c 3200 at the latest and since the RV by general consent was composed in Saptasindhu, then it follows that the IAs were ensconced in Saptasindhu by 3200 and that the SSC was a material manifestation of the early oral Vedic tradition expressed in the RV. A large number of archaeologists, experts on the SSC, insist on the unbroken continuity of this civilization and preclude the significant entry of any other cultureuntil the Persian invasions after 600 BCE (Gupta and Lal 1984; Shaffer 1984 and withLichtenstein;1999; Rao 1991; Allchins 1997; Kenoyer 1998; Possehl 2002/3; McIntosh 2001; et al).This issue was treated by me extensively in preceding papers and no more need be said now. I should only add that, in fact, more and more scholars in the West have re-examined the issue and rejected wholly or in part the mainstream view advocating instead a movement Out of India into Europe (Schildmann1998; Elst 1999; Klostermaier 1998, 2000; Friedrich 2004; Hasenpflug 2006.
(Downloadthe PDF file - 2.229kB)

Below are some more excerpts from Prof Kazanas, working with his analysis of the vedic time frame based on citation of Sanskrit terminology on physical structures’existence or not existence. Am fascinated how much thorough his works were. Some of you may want to spend quality time going through the research by some scholars like him.

'Rigvedic Town and Ocean: Witzelvs Frawley', by N. Kazanas, March 2003.

In this paper is examined the controversy between D. Frawley and M. Witzel in the newspaper The Hindu (Juneand July 2003). Frawley claimed that the Rigveda knew of both towns and ocean citing pur 'fort, town' and samudra 'ocean, sea'. Witzel attacked both claims writing that pur means only some mud-palisade or simple fortification while samudra means confluence or heavenly ocean. N Kazanas shows that pur means nota material structure at all but a magical, occult protective shield and that samudra does in many cases mean 'ocean'. (Download the PDF file - 169kB)

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Namaste all, Iwould like you to consider exploring a good Indology (and Greek) website run by Nicholas Kazanas, a contemporary Greek Scholar.

http://www.omilosmeleton.gr/en/indology_en.asp (http://www.omilosmeleton.gr/en/indology_en.asp)

Interesting link, I didn't see them until Indraneela mentioned them in another post. Thanks for posting.