The first edition of Frontline for 2010 just came out, in celebration of the magazine's 25th birthday. The giant issue looks back at the biggest stories in...
Dear Colleagues, We are happy to inform you of a new issue of EJVS, vol. 16-2, on the interpretation of dreams in Old India and Greece: Die Wurzeln der...
In 1982 a revolutionary paper by the biophysicist J.J. Hopfield, then at Cal Tech and now at Princeton, put neural network theory on a firm mathematical...
Dear Annette, Interesting article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/books/review/Gopnik-t.html The author of the piece, Alison Gopnik is, in fact, a...
In my opinion, the mind has been "reading" symbols of various sorts since at least 90-70K BCE and very probably long before. "Reading words" through symbols is...
Resent to fix the broken link to selections (and useful figures) from Dehaene's book. Steve ****** ... Probably *way* before that, John, since spoken language...
A Happy New Year to All! For your Long Weekend amusement, read the item below: for a change, not the usual Hindutva fantasies, but more of the same from the...
[Mod. note. Message edited and official Conference announcement added. - SF.] Dear Friends, The North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) will take...
Dear List, The 36th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society will meet at UCB on 6-7 February 2009. Our collaborator Richard Sproat is one of the five...
[Mod. note. Signature added from Yahoo profiles. (Please sign all posts.) I'm not sure if it's necessary to pay to attend one talk. I haven't looked into it,...
With the moderator's indulgence: It's come time to finally overhaul vedavid.org. It was a fine resource in its day, but has not been worked on since 1999....
Well, JR-- As far as I remember, and as I now see -- on quickly leafing through the van Nooten RV, taking into account the old ordering from longest to...
Dear List, A book review in JSEAS of possible interest. A review of Justin McDaniel's newish book on Buddhist monastic education systems in SEA, which came out...
Dear List, Can anyone offer citations, either primary or secondary of Vedic references to burial mounds of kings? I believe it has been argued (though I forget...
Benjy, the passage you have in mind is Shatapatha Brahaman 12.8.1.5, thus in an Eastern text (N. Bihar) of the late Vedic period. According to this text, the...
Michael Witzel, Do you know of any comparative archaeological studies for the circular tomb excavated in Lauriya and those of the Sakas and Scythians? Do the...
The longest Rgvedic hymn is Rv 9.97 with 58 verses. The shorties is Rv 1.99 with just one. Rajesh Kochhar ... [Prof.] Rajesh Kochhar http://rajeshkochhar.com ...
[Mod. note. 13.8.1.5 in Eggeling. - SF.] Dear Dr. Witzel, <the passage you have in mind is Shatapatha-Brahaman 12.8.1.5> Would you kindly elucidate as to what...
John, a difficult question as I think little has been done on this topic. People notice the similarity of grave mounds but keep it at that. However, over the...
Where does the Gandhara Grave Culture fit in? Rajesh Kochhar ________________________________ Michael Witzel wrote: Benjy, the passage you have in mind is...
Dear All, A search of Jstor suggests that a comprehensive summary of the excavations at Lauriya (or Nandangarh) was undertaken by J.E. Van Lohuizen-de Leeuw in...
Many thanks, Benjy, for the file & photos! However, even Lohuizen does not seem to have complete information. When her compatriot W. Caland (not mentioned)...
Sorry, typo, as Steve noticed; it was 13.8.1.5 The common divisions of the text: chapter 13, etc. -- UFT 8: -- 13.8.1 from my electronic texts catuḥsrakti...
Hi, I'm just wondering whether any of the list members can influence geneticists in India or the US to study Nihali speakers. That language isolate has been...
Hello and Happy New Year, I would like to share with you the latest (free) newsletter from Sasanika: Late Antique Near East" at UC Irvine. Best Touraj Daryaee ...
[Mod. note. Set to UTF-8 if reading in a browser (needed for the few diacritics in the titles). I assume (hope?) that eventually abstracts of the articles...
[Mod. Note: A,K. Kaul below, appears to have overlooked the word - parimaNDala - in the text, clearly indicating a rounded structure and also clearly within...
Well... As Benjy has already pointed out, things are not as easy as modern speakers and readers of classical Sanskrit suppose... Even a very quick look in a...
[Mod Note: Here is a link to Jean-Luc's images: http://www.benjaminfleming.com/ie/jlc.html - BF] Dear list, we had a (Power Point) presentation last summer...
