08-29-2008, 02:38 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-dhu+Aug 28 2008, 08:32 PM-->QUOTE(dhu @ Aug 28 2008, 08:32 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->I suppose it would depend on whether you believe in IE. There is also the Lindtner and Thundy theory which poses a Buddhist transmission of Gospel narratives out of India and subsequent purposeful mangling of the buddhist terminology. Hindi patthar seems to related as well.
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Not mean to be facetious but what is Pali for stone? If there was Buddhist transmission then it could be a homonym from there. To imply 'steady as a rock'.
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Not mean to be facetious but what is Pali for stone? If there was Buddhist transmission then it could be a homonym from there. To imply 'steady as a rock'.