^ is the VK-quoting professor, who besides that shloka, also quoted the shloka of 'jananI janmabhUmishcha swargAdapi garIyasi', and when I asked from where he quoted, he insisted he had seen it in 'some' rAmAyaNa without being able to say which one!!
A saMskR^ita professor from Orissa, later confirmed to me that indeed that shloka is not to be found anywhere in any of the saMskR^ita rAmAyaNa-s, besides yet another shloka "from mahAbhArata", where duryodhana says 'I know the dharma but can not follow it' etc. nepAlI scholar likewise pointed out that the 'pa~nchAdhikam shatam' shloka is a hoax too.
For 'noted' scholars as the above, sole force of whose proposal is based on quotations from shAstra-s, they have to be double-careful about accuracy in what they quote and from where, and be able and always ready to provide precise & verifiable references and sources -- without which the whole value to their proposal is naturally reduced to second rate glorification of hindu history, and not only is easily trashed by the hindu-haters, but also used to brand even the serious Hindu scholarship with the same brush.
And yes, he concluded, by stating that the concept of the World Wide Web and Info Super highway is to be found in R^igveda, the proof of which is the famed statement, 'Let Noble Thoughts come to us from All direction'. Isn't that Info Super Highway!! That was something. Would you still blame anti-Hindus to be rediculing the Hindus?
A saMskR^ita professor from Orissa, later confirmed to me that indeed that shloka is not to be found anywhere in any of the saMskR^ita rAmAyaNa-s, besides yet another shloka "from mahAbhArata", where duryodhana says 'I know the dharma but can not follow it' etc. nepAlI scholar likewise pointed out that the 'pa~nchAdhikam shatam' shloka is a hoax too.
For 'noted' scholars as the above, sole force of whose proposal is based on quotations from shAstra-s, they have to be double-careful about accuracy in what they quote and from where, and be able and always ready to provide precise & verifiable references and sources -- without which the whole value to their proposal is naturally reduced to second rate glorification of hindu history, and not only is easily trashed by the hindu-haters, but also used to brand even the serious Hindu scholarship with the same brush.
And yes, he concluded, by stating that the concept of the World Wide Web and Info Super highway is to be found in R^igveda, the proof of which is the famed statement, 'Let Noble Thoughts come to us from All direction'. Isn't that Info Super Highway!! That was something. Would you still blame anti-Hindus to be rediculing the Hindus?