The weakness of ancient Indian literature

Are you a professional historian ?

Originally posted by Gun Powder Ma [QUOTE=Preobrazhenskoe] No, it is not. Your comparison is flawed. These works were subject to meticulous copying by scribes. Written works were rewritten, simple as that.

Well "rewritten" is a bad choice of words since that's often what happened i.e. interpolation and such. Also complete invention of texts fradulently ascribed to some ancient author. Not to mention flaws that happen when works are "copied."

Needless to say when you have texts translated from Greek into Arabic then into Latin, some errors can occur there also in translation.  In some cases you can catch the mistakes if you have the Arabic douments, but you can't detect errors from Greek into Arabic. The Greek texts we have now were in most cases translated into Greek from Latin!  Although a few were preserved by the Byzantines but not necessarily in the original Greek.

Voice of the Ancestors

It is not the weakness of ancient Indian literature but availability of that today since lot of libraries were destroyed during Muslim invasions.

Originally posted by Vivek Sharma Originally posted by Decebal Who, me? Not yet: I'm studying history in university (my day job is as an engineer) as I want to become a history professor. On the other hand I've been reading up on history since I was a little child. I usually spend an average of 10-20 hours a week studying history in some way. Engineering to History ? But that is not financially sound here. Is it a good career option in the nation you live ?

Edited by Decebal - 24-Nov-2006 at 10:39

Originally posted by Decebal   It's not really financially sound here either. Still, as a university professor in Canada, one can make a pretty decent living (income of $40,000-100,000 a year before taxes, depending on experience and tenure, field of study, and university): this is comparable to an average engineer, but not a good one, who can make more. I do expect that by the time I'll make the switch, I'll have to take a considerable paycut (probably 30-50% of my gross salary), which I will probably make up in 5-10 years. The thing is that I'm doing this primarily because it's my passion, not for money.   Also, it can be quite difficult to get a university professor job, but on the other hand, I can afford to spend a few years looking for such a job, since I do have a very good backup plan (my current job) after all. Had I only done history, it would have been very risky, and I might have ended up with a poorly paid job.

On the other hand by the time you get ready to make the switch you might be burning out from being a programmer or engineer so it could be a wise decision career wise too.

Coming to the Indian literature, it is mentioned in the literature itself that it is for the "Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksha" of people.

This policy of these communist hisorians of India is similiar to all nearly all think tank sort of establishments & the older guard in media too. This is traditional communist thinking in India. Very exclusivist.

greeks adopted writing when?

Perhaps, he would have read Puranas, which clearly say that the Greeks were nothing but "excommunicated Khastriyas".

Edward Pocokoke's "India in Greece" gives details.

Of course, William Jones proceeded only on those lines coming to conclusion that Sanskrirt, Greek, etc., should have a common origin, as they have many similarities.

Col. Tod, CFC Volney and many more have pointed out such facts.

Anyway, how you link Minoans, Greeks etc.?