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Steve,

This afternoon at about 12:45PM, I posted two messages in your Indo-Eurasian_research forum. I registered with my own last name and my full name was embedded in the email ID.

First message was in response to you earlier claim about VF.

Here is my full post:
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--- In Indo-Eurasian_research@yahoogroups.com, Steve Farmer <saf@...>
wrote:
>
> Dear List,
>
> Here's another weekend post -- and very timely at that.
>
> Remember the Vedic Foundation's webpage on the dates of when the
> "Aryans" arrived in India -- 1.972 billion years ago?
>
> http://tinyurl.com/du4kq

There is NOTHING about "Aryans" arriving in India in the webpage you
linked.

>
> Just the people you'd want to edit history textbooks.
>
> Yesterday someone pointed out to me that Ramesh Rao, who sits on the
> Executive Council of and is often a spokesperson of the Hindu American
> Foundation, has written a defense of those dates. It turns  that these
> claims were meant by the VF _symbolically_, not _literally_ -- hiding
> depths of meaning beyond the comprehension of Western historians (but
> not physicists).
>
> http://www.indiareacts.com/columns/full_column18.htm

I think you are confusing Hinduism  with prophetic religions. We do
not have a "book" that we take literally. That is why, you dont see
any schools of creationism or intelligent design in Hindusim.

That date, as Ramesh Rao explainded, cannot  be taken literally. It is
something that is derived from tradition.

>
> I wonder if the Vedic Foundations proposed edits to California
> textbooks -- their Master Document submitted to the Board claimed that
> the Mauryan Dynasty and the historical "Buddh" (sic) lived in the first
> half of the second millennium BCE -- were also "symbolic"? If so, why
> didn't they tell the Board of Education and put that in the edits?
>
> Read their denunciation of claims that the Mauryan dynasty came after
> the time of Alexander the Great; their dating here of the Dynasty
> doesn't look very symbolic to me:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/rsw9w

Lets be fair and ask the question, "what evidence exists to prove that
Chandragupta Maurya is contemporary of  Alexander?

Any thoughts, Steve?
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To my surprise, you labeled me , mocked me, all withing 45 minutes:

Lets see what you said:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasia...ch/message/3329

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What is obnoxious about my post?

BTW, my second post was addressed to you and Witzel asked for a full transcript of VH suggested revisions.

I challendge you Steve, to come here and explain us about dating of Chandragupta Maurya.