05-14-2006, 05:39 AM
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The cognate of clan is Kul or cul, cognate of shatriya is shah(Iranian),<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Another remark on this.
There is no shatriya. The 'k' is not silent in Sanskrit Kshatriya, as opposed to its silence in English kneed, knight, know,... Indian languages have no redundant characters. Ours are perfectly phonetic and logically sound languages.
Yet more proof that it must be some western or other person ignorant of Indian and Iranian languages who wrote the wackypedia entry.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The cognate of clan is Kul or cul, cognate of shatriya is shah(Iranian),<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Another remark on this.
There is no shatriya. The 'k' is not silent in Sanskrit Kshatriya, as opposed to its silence in English kneed, knight, know,... Indian languages have no redundant characters. Ours are perfectly phonetic and logically sound languages.
Yet more proof that it must be some western or other person ignorant of Indian and Iranian languages who wrote the wackypedia entry.