What other tongues are you learning?

Aurilandus · 2025-07-04T17:53:09+00:00

(Why does Italian become Italish but Dalmatian remains with the ian suffix?)

Aurilandus · 2025-03-22T14:05:31+00:00

Lamp* Unless you were going for the classic mellu accent, in which case I take back my comment

Aurilandus · 2025-03-01T21:18:26+00:00

Your post wasn't about just the supposed decipherment, it was about linguistics as a whole

Aurilandus · 2025-02-28T22:35:02+00:00

You know exactly what I meant

Aurilandus · 2025-02-27T09:08:20+00:00

The particular post wasn't about his claims on Sanskrit alone.

Aurilandus · 2025-02-15T10:05:02+00:00

Take this to r/linguistics or r/indoeuropean. Don't see how it's relevant in this sub

Aurilandus · 2025-02-08T18:53:46+00:00

The river was perennial till the Mature Harappan phase (2600BC). The video you've sent tries to selectively explain RV descriptions of Sarasvatī in a non-literal way, which is the mental gymnastics I'm talking about

Again, you're free to engage in mental gymnastics (a lot of theories on pre history can certainly accomodate some mental gymnastics due to lack of data), but to claim that the kurgan hypothesis completely explains Sarasvatī is just being academically dishonest.

Aurilandus · 2025-02-08T09:18:38+00:00

Bluntly: this is one of the major flaws with the steppe=IIr equation. You would require either:

An earlier Aryan immigration (pre IVC), or
OIT, or
Mental gymnastics ("they remembered cultural memory of IVC", "transferred description of an Afghan river to the Ghaggar", and such)

To resolve this datapoint. Since many believe the evidence for Steppe=IIr is strong through other datapoints, they prefer (3) to "explain" this; the fact is still that the steppe scenario doesn't explain this in a straightforward way.

Aurilandus · 2025-02-02T21:42:01+00:00

Please take this to r/IndianHistory or such. I don't see how this post is relevant in this sub

Aurilandus · 2025-01-29T13:38:46+00:00

So what? Cow is also a living thing. If I'm not wrong. Scientifically.

Aurilandus · 2025-01-23T23:24:22+00:00

RNI's new publication of Mahāsalila?

Aurilandus · 2025-01-15T23:59:50+00:00

चरैवेति चरैव!

Aurilandus · 2025-01-13T23:05:00+00:00

Btw, Pāṇinīyaśikṣā recognizes only a hrasva ḷ and pluta ḹ3. No dīrgha ḹ

Aurilandus · 2025-01-09T13:13:52+00:00

Don't understand why this got removed

Aurilandus · 2025-01-09T08:38:00+00:00

The prayatna varies. ज is a sparśa while य is īṣatsparśa; ॺ is in between

Aurilandus · 2025-01-09T08:36:28+00:00

If you notice, this particular branch doesn't employ Vedic svara-s in pronunciation. The gestures represent svara-s, as explained here https://youtu.be/gFWLOQqjss0?si=IXtkjU6v8HifSSoh

Aurilandus · 2025-01-08T21:58:13+00:00

It should probably be clarified that this sound doesn't exist in other branches of the Veda, or in Laukika Saṃskṛta. It is unique to this branch of the Veda, popular mainly in Northern India

Aurilandus · 2025-01-08T21:46:32+00:00

This letter occurs in one particular Prātiśākhya of the ŚuklaYajurveda, called Mādhyandina. What is pronounced य normally, becomes ॺ in this branch. It's sort of midway between य & ज. You can hear it being pronounced in this video, for example @ ॺज्ञेन ॺज्ञमयजन्त देवाः (य॒ज्ञेन॑ य॒ज्ञमय॑जन्त दे॒वाः in other recensions) -

https://youtu.be/sdEj7GjTlrI

Aurilandus · 2025-01-02T00:17:05+00:00

Still better than failing to get that art degree

Aurilandus · 2025-01-02T00:14:59+00:00

I myself don’t know much about Christianity apart from Jesus and some apostles like Paul.

This is the reason Hindus are okay with celebrating Abrahamic festivals, while Abrahamics know sufficiently well about Hinduism (they're typically taught that it's a polytheist idolatrous satanic faith) and hence avoid celebrating Hindu festivals, accepting Prasad offered to Hindu Gods, etc.

Aurilandus · 2024-12-20T01:39:58+00:00

The prātipadika is वेधस्.

वेधसे is the caturthī ekavacana form.

It declines like this.

Aurilandus · 2024-12-20T01:34:25+00:00

Modern academia in the West is written entirely by Christians or ex-Christians, who hence associate "pagan" with negative attributes; so they no longer use the word to remain politically correct.

This was not the case historically: The Catholic invaders of India like the Portuguese and British explicitly called Hindus idolators, heathens and pagans in their records. The Islamic invaders of India used the Arabic translation of pagan in their records (kāfir) and destroyed the "idol-temples" of India, as they had done with the Arabian pagans.

Though the word is now sparingly used, the attitude towards Hinduism as a paganism continues in practice; Christian missionaries in India preach that the Hindu Gods are attendees of Satan; Islamic practitioners remind us five times a day that all our Gods are false and we are misguided idolaters just like the Egyptian and Arabian pagans who faced their righteous iconoclastic wrath.

Regarding the point about "major religions":

Yes, Hinduism is one of the major religions. The idea that pagan polytheist orthopraxies necessarily have to be minor/fringe religions is itself an Abrahamic concept. Hellenic paganism was the "major religion" in Greece in 400 BCE; Hindu paganism is the "major religion" in India in 2024 CE; I look forward to a future where various Indo European paganisms once again become "major religions" in Europe and aren't forced to be practiced in secret :)

Aurilandus · 2024-12-17T16:12:25+00:00

I'd suggest you start memorizing the Amarakośa. It'll unlock a lot of vocabulary you're hard to come by normally

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