09-13-2006, 08:18 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Bodhi+Sep 13 2006, 09:17 PM-->QUOTE(Bodhi @ Sep 13 2006, 09:17 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->So touchy! Nobody said your posts were offending anyone! Also nobody is asking you to not have that information in your book!
We are just suggesting, use word 'Indian' rather than 'South Asian'. or justify why not. We are all matured people here. Nobody will be 'hurt'. so go on tell us about it.
Please, at least attempt to justify why you avoided word 'Indian' - (now you use word 'South Asian' capapults in your last post).Â
At least answer this much.
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Very well, I'll repost my last deleted post.
<i>In my book, South Asia includes Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan etc. because source texts I use refer to the use of Yantras not just in India but also elsewhere like in Sri Lankan fortresses as well. The Buddhist texts which contain references to the Yantras are from the northern parts, and the Buddhists place the birth of Gautama Buddha in, if I'm not mistaken, what is now Nepal. The development of catapults in the Indian subcontinent was a collective effort by all the various groupings and kingdoms which arose in and around the area, including parts of what are now within southeastern Pakistan.
I have used it to denote an area, much as I've lumped the whole of the Americas into just America, Europe into just European, Islamic as just Islamic with only two exceptions, the Greco-Romans as they span civilisational boundaries, and Japan where they took a differing evolutionary path to catapult development with the rest of East Asia. China stands alone as is obvious since the whole book is on Chinese catapults.</i>
Further more, the Vedic Aryans during the period of the Rigveda is currently believed to have ranged from Uttar Pradesh in India to as far as southern Afghanistan. Moreover, when Alexander the Great fought his way east, he penetrated as far as the Beas River which is in Punjab and joins the Sutlej River, through to the Indus. The Beas is acknowledged as the eastern most line of Alexander's advance which means that he fought most of his eastern battles not in India but in Afghanistan and in Pakistan. The Greek accounts which record the "catapults" faced by Alexander's army do not state clearly the locations of the battles and I cannot in good conscience lump everything under "India".
We are just suggesting, use word 'Indian' rather than 'South Asian'. or justify why not. We are all matured people here. Nobody will be 'hurt'. so go on tell us about it.
Please, at least attempt to justify why you avoided word 'Indian' - (now you use word 'South Asian' capapults in your last post).Â
At least answer this much.
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Very well, I'll repost my last deleted post.
<i>In my book, South Asia includes Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan etc. because source texts I use refer to the use of Yantras not just in India but also elsewhere like in Sri Lankan fortresses as well. The Buddhist texts which contain references to the Yantras are from the northern parts, and the Buddhists place the birth of Gautama Buddha in, if I'm not mistaken, what is now Nepal. The development of catapults in the Indian subcontinent was a collective effort by all the various groupings and kingdoms which arose in and around the area, including parts of what are now within southeastern Pakistan.
I have used it to denote an area, much as I've lumped the whole of the Americas into just America, Europe into just European, Islamic as just Islamic with only two exceptions, the Greco-Romans as they span civilisational boundaries, and Japan where they took a differing evolutionary path to catapult development with the rest of East Asia. China stands alone as is obvious since the whole book is on Chinese catapults.</i>
Further more, the Vedic Aryans during the period of the Rigveda is currently believed to have ranged from Uttar Pradesh in India to as far as southern Afghanistan. Moreover, when Alexander the Great fought his way east, he penetrated as far as the Beas River which is in Punjab and joins the Sutlej River, through to the Indus. The Beas is acknowledged as the eastern most line of Alexander's advance which means that he fought most of his eastern battles not in India but in Afghanistan and in Pakistan. The Greek accounts which record the "catapults" faced by Alexander's army do not state clearly the locations of the battles and I cannot in good conscience lump everything under "India".