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Re: Aryan Invasion myth [Re: venky] #12953 - 03/05/02 02:47 AM Edit Reply Quote

Dear Venkat, It is not just replacing the Mauryan for the Guptan dynasty. It fas far reaching implications. It means that the chronology at dates you are mentioning in relation to certain developments are oudated and have to be revisioned. The names of the second Guptan dynasty are known from an inscription. A problem with the Gangetic is that it is more densely populated than the western Indian provinces. And another problem is that the very oldest layers in the Gangetic are just beneath the modern settlements. How can the archeologists excavate a Banaras? The archeologists admit this point. I really don't understand what iron has to do with the shift of the Imperial Guptas to the previous Mauryan era. Another point for instance about the word 'ayas' is that it doesn't mean iron but metal in Sanskrit literature. This is born out of Vedic textual evidence. Many paribhashika or technical words and meanings are a little bit recast in the AIT notion. I wouldn't suggest a non-AIT revision, but rather a neutral revision. Don't forget that the PGW was started from the Gangetic and moved towards western India. The periods of the PGW are: 1. from 1200-1100 BC 2. from 1100-800 BC 3. from the 6th century on The OCP culture is from 2200-1700 BC, the chalcolithic BRW around 2000 BC. I have to admit that I'm not that much at home with the PGW, BRW and OCP cultures. But at least the revisioned dates given to the Imperial Guptas and the Mauryas push the chronology farther back in time. which makes the AIT from another corner again very implausible, besides the archeological, DNA-technical and textual correspondances. The Sindhu-Sarasvata has to many agreements with the late or post Vedic cultures to put easily aside. The AIT has to presume so much to be plausible, all against the evidences. However, the problems aren't solved by that with the non-AIT identities. There's so much work to be done besides revisioning major avoidable mistakes in the chronologies. All the work has to be done with multidisciplinary effort.