Dear listfolk, In his recent book *Karma*, and (if memory serves) already in an earlier book, Johannes Bronhorst says in passing that the Brhadaranyaka and...
No. See: Moving Targets? Texts, language, archaeology, and history in the Late Vedic and early Buddhist periods. Indo-Iranian Journal 52, 2009, 287-310. ...
Greetings (apologies for limited cross-posting) - Phase 2 of the overhaul and update of vedavid.org (first phase released in early 2010) is in its fledgling...
Theories of the Past: The Role of History in Archaeological Approaches An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference Sponsored by the University of Michigan...
Dear List, This little noted news clip has slowly begun to make rounds of in the Twitter-sphere: it is about the discovery in Italy of a Sanskrit dictionary ...
Dear Keerthik, Thanks for your message. A related story has been circulating for a couple of years now. I am not sure exactly why this manuscript is being...
Dear list members ... received from somewhere & kept the following note, with link to download the work in question. Sorry, lost the notes' source and don't...
Hi Not directly related to your posting, you may find my new free IME at http://sites.google.com/site/bhashaime for entering text in Unicode Devanagari, Roman...
Thanks rodo, "Lost for several decades" (as written in the note you post) is a little more believable than "lost for over two centuries" as is being put...
Dear Rodo, I have this note: "At the end of May (2010) the Belgian scholar Dr. Toon Van Hal has found the original manuscript of the "Grammatica Grandonica"...
New and unusually important article just out from a broad international collaboration from China, Germany, and elsewhere, including Paabo's group (I send an...
Dear List, An simple and important paper, just published in _Trends in Cognitive Science_, that focuses on the brain-coupling mechanisms at work at the deepest...
[Mod. note. For sure, Dagmar. I assumed that was mentioned on the link. Maybe we can report here on some of the talks. Best, Steve.] Thanks so much, Steve, for...
For weekend amusement. Kalyanaraman's Wikipedia page no longer exists, as Richard Sproat (who is visiting in California) pointed out to me over some wine this...
Thanks for alerting us, Steve! -- WIkipedia has indeed been improving in several areas due to better oversight. Perhaps somebody will see the light about our...
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[Mod. note. P.N. Oak is still in Wikipedia, but treated as the obvious nut he is. See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.N._Oak>. Rajiv Malhotra's Wikipedia page...
Dear All, I just received the sad news that my old friend, the famous Indologist Frits Staal, has passed away peacefully, today Sunday 2/19/12, at his home in...
... "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher...." ... Nice while it lasted: apparently the page comes, is deleted, comes back, is deleted - an endless cycle,...
Just like the Energizer Bunny....on and on Joanna **** ... lo and behold, up came Dr. K's entry, just as self-promoting as ever.....! "Vanity of vanities,...
And what does this say about the improved standards of Wikipedia that were being lauded just yesterday? Anyway this is probably my fault for noticing it: I...
Dear All, On The Media, a US National Public Radio show on everything related to media etc., ran last weekend a segment on the Elsevier boycott initiated a few...
Dear All, Here is the original New York Times article: February 13, 2012 Mathematicians Organize Boycott of a Publisher By THOMAS LIN More than 5,700...
Just published, of interest -- e.g. in the impact of Aramaic on early Indic writing systems, and expansion of Brahmi to diverse Indic languages. Passed on from...
[Mod. note. This is a broader topic than usual for this List, but it would be interesting to see what credible reviews exist. - SF.] Could I please get links...
[Mod. note. See also at the top of Silk's webpage his current project entitled "Buddhism and Slavery in ancient India." - SF.] Dear Sri Shan, Prof. Jonathan...
[Mod. note. Set encoding to UTF-8 if reading in a browser. - Steve.] Sri Shan asks about slavery in pre-Islamic India, esp. re: caste system. The obvious and...
Speaking of Wiki and activists pushing ethno-nationalist bias, here is the Wiki entry on Balochistan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balochistan,_Pakistan ...
Strange. I've never seen Iranian nationalists use the term Iranic. Also they usually spell the province Baluchistan. Curiously they have the correct new name...
Sri Shan wrote: "I recently came across a comment in a SubCon blog that questioned whether slavery existed in pre-Islamic India. I was always under the...
