Dear Steve, In connection with your response to Hartmut as well as with George Thompson's earlier message, may I add some requests. First, despite your...
george
cardonagj@...
Dec 1, 2005 1:05 pm
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... Dear George, Your summary here really isn't an accurate description of my views. If contact with writing were all, or mainly all, that was needed to ...
[Mod. note. Dear George: all power is off due to storms up in the Calif. mountains, so I'm temporarily working on a minicomputer in a coffee house in the...
george
cardonagj@...
Dec 1, 2005 10:48 pm
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[Mod. note. Hi Stephen: Power on up here again. It isn't of course just Bechert, is it?, but Erdosy (arguing on archaeological grounds) and quite a few others....
Or like Abraham's cooking pot and the Prophet's beard in the Topkapi. The passion for relics has been a fruitful source of funds for many a scamster. And ...
Dear Steve and dear George, I withdrew from this discussion earlier because it had become too heated, and also because it had become fruitlessly repetitive....
To The List, What are the meanings of the names of the following Kushan kings: "Kanishka" , "Huvishka" ,"Vasishka" ,"Shaka" & "Kipundha"? Thanks, Ram ... ...
... That is a critical test for either model, George. A close examination of proposed evidence of this sort would bring us back full circle, since our off-List...
... not exist. ... texts, ... game is a ... think ... Joanna, as far as I can see, Indologists constantly try to answer question for which the requisite data...
Dear Steve, I hope you get power back soon. Without wishing to be aggressive, I must say that your argumentation seems to me to approach the irresponsible....
george
cardonagj@...
Dec 2, 2005 12:54 pm
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Dear Steve and all who intend to discuss the date of the Buddha: I just wonder what makes you think that "opportunities for rapid progress seem promising" in...
Dear Ram, The most plausible explanation of the first three is given by N. Sims-Williams, "Ancient Afghanistan and its invaders", in Sims-Williams (ed.)...
02.12.2005 Dear Ram Varmha, I can not an Iranist but I think it seems that the most Kushan kings bear names / or titles out of an Iranian origin because they...
... the etymological hypotheses for "Saka" and other names are conveniently summarised in Oswald Szemerényi: Scythian - skudra - Spgdian - Saka: Four Old...
Dear List, Stephen Hodge has just alerted me to the following paper: EARLY IRON AGE ECONOMIC EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION REVISITED Andre Gunder Frank and...
Steve, ... If you were looking at the same version as I was, you will find the tables at the very end after the bibliography. At first, I too thought they...
My reply is interlinearbelow. Please leave it this way. Joanna Joanna, as far as I can see, Indologists constantly try to answer question for which the...
... ”… I should think that the burden of proof would lie on you…” Dear Steve, George Cardona just wrote an overdue reply, which I actually was about to...
... I wasn't actually thinking of the question of dating the 'historical Buddha' in this case, Georg. Reflecting the kinds of problems that Lars Martin and...
It seems to me that we need to distinguish at least the following aspects of the `the historical Buddha': A, the founder of the monastic order; B, the first...
Dear George, ... The fact that I find the general views of other 'Panini' specialists on layering in the Astadhyayi more plausible than your views -- without ...
... Dear Sreve, As a general position, this seems acceptable to me -- though one should be aware that the early Buddhist texts are relentlessly insistent that...
Dear Steve, Again you have gone on and on, resorting simply to generalizations, to my so-called "traditional" views as opposed to those of my "opponents",...
george
cardonagj@...
Dec 3, 2005 1:06 am
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Stephen Hodge writes, on the 'historical Buddha' issue; ... You've taken taken me to task for the "rapid progress" line twice now, Stephen -- and Georg von...
Dear George, ... My feelings in September about their work are precisely the same as the ones I expressed today: I think they are on the right track in ...
... reformers who ... with the data ... textual or ... Fair enough, Joanna. I have not dealt with the date of Buddha since the mid-nineties, and I hoped there...
Dear Steve, You don't seem to get it, do you, so let me spell out what I think you have to do to justify the claim you are making. If you accept the general...
george
cardonagj@...
Dec 3, 2005 12:38 pm
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So far, I would like to thank both Nick Allen and Stephen Hodge for their recent contributions. I, at least, am getting something out of this! I find Nick's ...
Yes, Lars--Just to make my position clear, I too consider that if an actual personage Gautama Buddha existed (and I've not come across any argument that...
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