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[quote name='Hauma Hamiddha' date='Sep 22 2003, 05:41 AM'] If you have a serious interest in the Indo-European and Indo-Aryan problems, then Mallory is a must read. If you have no interest in linguistics then it may be of no interest. Mallory's forte is lingusitics and he is rather effective at that. [/quote]

Kaushal and HH



Thanks for your suggestions. I am interested in digging to a suffieciently deep (but not very deep) level to understand what the question is and the the different POVs and solutions proposed by scholars working in the area.



I did a quick ~ 1 hr scan of the book. What is interesting to me was that inspite of Mallory being an archeologist (at least that is the impression I got from my quick scan), his theories are based on comparative linguistics. As HH says, he has not given lot of references to Sanskrit though quotes Sir Jones (the then Justice of the Indian Supreme Court and a Linguist of considerable standing) early on.



It is definitely a project of considerable effort to go through the book and summarize for the forum. I will try to do that in the coming month(s). Now that winter is just about here, I would have lot more time to spend on reading.



On another note, I have a copy of the Bhartrihari's Shataka Traya by Barbara Stoler Miller. There are a lot of interesting things said about Sanskrit poetry in general and Bhartrihari in specific. I hope to review some this stuff as well for the forum. Stay tuned.



I am soliciting the opinions of the forum members on Miller.



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