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   From: nicolai.vladirmirescu@gmail.com   
      
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   Nicolai   
      
      
   "I am the Whistler, and I know many things, for I walk by night. I   
   know many strange tales, many secrets hidden in the hearts of men and   
   women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless   
   terrors of which they dare not speak."   
      
      
      
      
   They seek him here   
   They seek him there.   
   Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.   
   Is he in heaven?   
   Or is he in hell? That damned elusive Pimpernel!   
      
      
   "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the   
   impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"   
      
      
      
      
   The little things are infinitely more important."   
      
      
      
      
      
   "I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for   
   trifles."   
      
   "Alistair_Sim"  wrote in message   
   news:...   
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   >   
   > -- 1a. There is no conclusive proof that civilisation started in   
   >    Sumeria and Babylon. The Indus Valley Civilisation is   
   >    not only older than the Semitic civilisation but its   
   >    artifacts, such as steatite seals, exhibit a superiority of   
   >    design and finish over the Mesopotamian products. The   
   >    scholarly opinion has been warped by the present social   
   >    state of the Indian sub-continent. Learned men find it   
   >    hard to believe the people who have got used to such a   
   >    way of life, could have been cultural pioneers of the   
   >    world. However, the truth is becoming evident and   
   >    some historians such as Will Durant have acknowledged   
   >    the precedence of the Indian culture aver that of   
   >    Mesopotamia i.e. Sumeria and Babylonia.   
   >   
   > 2a. This is a silly argument, because on the basis of   
   >    language, India surpasses all countries. Sanskrit,   
   >    basically the language of the Rgveda, was developed in   
   >    the Punjab for expressing the mystical, Intuitive and   
   >    spiritual observations of the Vedic seers. It proves the   
   >    incomparable cultural status of the Punjab, and shows   
   >    the level at which they canducted their cogitation and   
   >    observation of the natural phenomena.   
   >   
   >   
   >    This is the reason that Sir William Jones, the father of   
   >    Indology, declared Sanskrit as the "more perfect than   
   >    the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more   
   >    exquisitely refined than either."   
   >   
   >   
   >    One must bear in mind that Greek and Latin were   
   >    considered the most celebrated languages of the world   
   >    until scholars came to realise the beauty, brilliance and   
   >    blandness of Sanskrit. This fact is evident from the   
   >    word: "Sanskrit" itself, which means "prepared, pure,   
   >    perfect, sacred." This is the reason that it has never   
   >    been the language of the man-in-the-street but of the   
   >    scholarly, the learned and the saintly. Every Aryan   
   >    tribe has had a tongue of its own, yet there is no   
   >    language which has not been influenced by Sanskrit, and   
   >    it goes for the most modern languages too, such as   
   >    English, German, Persian, Urdu, and so on.   
   >   
   >   
   >    Just because most invaders came to India from Central   
   >    Asia through the Khyber pass, it does not prove that the   
   >    Aryans were also foreign invaders, and not indigenous to   
   >    the Punjab. It is equally likely that the Aryan or Punjabi   
   >    invaders might have gone through the same passes to the   
   >    various parts of the world. I intend to narrate this story   
   >    which has become a part of the historical mystery.   
   >   
   >   
   > 3a. Aryans versus Dravidian is ane of the biggest myths of   
   >    history. Nor is there any proof that they were ignorant   
   >    of seafaring. This argument is irrelevarit with regard   
   >    to the Aryan origin.   
   >   
   >   
   > 4a. This is a trivial argument. The arctic region has always   
   >    been so thinly populated that its people are numerically   
   >    insigniticant to form "waves of Aryan migrants" to fill   
   >    the plains of Europe and Asia.   
   >   
   >   
   > Sa. Trees like oak and beech are not confined to   
   >    Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Austria. They grow in   
   >    most cold climes. Thus, this argument is baseless.   
   >   
   >   
   > 6a. It is unwise to decide the origin of such a great race as   
   >    the Aryans on such a flimsy evidence as a few pieces of   
   >    pottery. Some Indian scholars have accepted this   
   >    argument to mitigate their grief of persecution-complex   
   >    arising out of sense of inferiority, because it enables   
   >    them to enjoy membership of the "White Race."   
   >   
   >   
   > 7a. Philology is a term used in the study of comparative and   
   >    historical linguistics, the study of the evolution and   
   >    interrelations of languages and the lingual changes. Its   
   >    main purpose has been to establish language families on   
   >    the basis of linguistic relationships.   
   >   
   >   
   >    Again, Lithuania is a tiny country having a population of   
   >    just over 3 million in 1973. Several thousand years   
   >    ago, it could not have possessed sufficient numbers to   
   >    populate other regions. It is a part of the Baltic lands   
   >    along with Latvia and Estonia. There is no doubt that by   
   >    the middle of the 14th century, Lithuania became   
   >    powerful enough to control an area extending from the   
   >    Baltic Sea to lands beyond the Dnieper River in the east   
   >    and almost to the Black Sea in the south. But it cannot   
   >    retain ts purity of idiom because it is heavily influenced   
   >    by other languages of the area such as Finnish,   
   >    Estonian, Karelian, Veps, Ingrian, Votic and Livonian.   
   >    Besides, the Lithuanian language has also been affected   
   >    by the extinct Old Prussian, Yotvingian, Curonian,   
   >    Selonian and Semigallian languages. It is interesting to   
   >    note that like other Baltic languages, Lithuanian is more   
   >    closely related to Indo-Iranian than to the Indo European   
   >    family.   
   >   
   >   
   >    This is not true that it is a well-preserved tongue   
   >    because Lithuanian as a literary language has been in   
   >    use since the 16th century and is much different from   
   >    old Lithuanian. Of course, it has retained some of its   
   >    archaic features which it inherited from the ancestral   
   >    Proto-Indo-European language. This is not peculiar to   
   >    Lithuanian but all Baltic languages. Thus, the Baltic   
   >    lands cannot be cited as the original home of the   
   >    Aryans. The truth is the other way round: tongues of   
   >    the tiny nations, not used to foreign intercourse, stay   
   >    comparatively pure.   
   >   
   >   
   > 7b. Most of the Indo-European languages are crowded in   
   >    Europe because this is where the Punjabis settled. The   
   >    fact that the Punjab is the only such region outside   
   >    Europe proves that the Punjab has greater links with the   
   >    Aryans than any other land. Is it not mystifying to think   
      
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