Interpreting the Dholavira Sign Board of Indus Civilization
Dholavira is a large archaeological site of the ancient Indus valley civilization, situated in the Kutch district of Gujarat in Western India. One of the most interesting and significant discoveries at Dholavira More...
The Indo-European languages and the relevance of Sanskrit
Introduction Sanskrit along with major European and Iranian languages belongs to a language family known as Indo-European. They all shared a common ancestor thousands of years ago. This reconstructed language is More...
Indic Language Families and Indo-European – 2
[contextly_sidebar id=”Bbhqaghf0GR3eKTNY7wybwC50tDymL5z”] Aryan and Dravidian It was Bishop Caldwell (1875) who suggested that the South Indian languages of Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and Telugu formed More...
Indic Language Families and Indo-European – 1
As the science of language, historical linguistics in the early 19th century saw itself as providing a framework for studying the history and relationships of languages in the same manner as biology describes the More...
Semantics of Nothingness: Bhartrhari’s Philosophy of Negation – II
[contextly_sidebar id=”7ytl9qhAGsoHfl9n92mCIg2tyVdlQY6t”] Compounds with Negative Particles and the Metaphysics of Negation An oft-cited verse identifies six different meanings of the negative particle: The More...
Semantics of Nothingness: Bhartrhari’s Philosophy of Negation – I
Introduction1 Bhartrhari (fl. 450 CE) is one of the foremost philosophers of classical India. While there are many narratives relating the story of his life, that he was a king-turned-hermit, the author of three More...
Fallacies of Proto-Indo-European
There was a P(roto)I(ndo-)E(uropean) language 10.000 years ago. Its reconstruction is impossible now despite enormous efforts by fanciful scholars. The closest extant language is (old) Sanskrit. 1. I do not belong More...