01-02-2006, 12:26 PM
Some of Shri Arabindo's words are very perceptive and indeed very precise in describing the exact situation with modern Indologists (e.g. German scholar Rau), who believed that the R^ig Vedic primitives did not know how to make pots with wheels because in the pravargya rite it is recommended that the adhvaryu make the ritual pots with his own hands <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo--> Even potting is something the Aryans should have the from the native dasyus. kulAla is an Austro-Asiatic word the Europeans worthies tell us, so surely the Aryan knew not to make pots. How can you expect these Vedic savages with no knowledge of pottery to compose any more than primitive mediocre poetry.
" The prattle of Madmen" is a common phrase used by the European grandee to characterize the Veda (especially the brAhmaNa sections). Another well-know German "Veda-Meister" tell us that the Aryans surely did not know to make bricks for their elaborate sacrificial rituals. They should have filched them from the vailasthAnas of the ruined Indus civilization. After all had not bard named "Sharp phallus" the daivodAsi (the great Aryan Invader) recited that indra had utterly ruined the vailasthAnas. The Herr Professor declared triumphantly that the Veda knows only of vailasthAnas and not of any cities.
Some Europeans scholars nn the yajur veda:
Max Müller : 'the twaddling of idiots'
L. V Schroeder: 'writing of insane persons in the asylum'.
AB Keith: 'a world of fancy, where only sometimes a text can have a moment of sanity'.
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo--> Even potting is something the Aryans should have the from the native dasyus. kulAla is an Austro-Asiatic word the Europeans worthies tell us, so surely the Aryan knew not to make pots. How can you expect these Vedic savages with no knowledge of pottery to compose any more than primitive mediocre poetry." The prattle of Madmen" is a common phrase used by the European grandee to characterize the Veda (especially the brAhmaNa sections). Another well-know German "Veda-Meister" tell us that the Aryans surely did not know to make bricks for their elaborate sacrificial rituals. They should have filched them from the vailasthAnas of the ruined Indus civilization. After all had not bard named "Sharp phallus" the daivodAsi (the great Aryan Invader) recited that indra had utterly ruined the vailasthAnas. The Herr Professor declared triumphantly that the Veda knows only of vailasthAnas and not of any cities.
Some Europeans scholars nn the yajur veda:
Max Müller : 'the twaddling of idiots'
L. V Schroeder: 'writing of insane persons in the asylum'.
AB Keith: 'a world of fancy, where only sometimes a text can have a moment of sanity'.