Indology And Indologists,

[Husky]

Kind of related to K.Ram's #45:

Witzel's New Revealation - Rigveda is not Indian, but foreign ! <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<b>The Third Conference of Michael Witzel at Pondicherry!
By Veda Prakash</b>

Apparently a closed door meeting:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The visit of Michael Witzel to Pondicherry had been intriguing as his visit was kept secret[1] and in fact, the so-called conference there, was held as a "closed door meeting", where only 11 persons were there from the French Institute.

Note: I was not at Pondicherry and I thank friends for giving these details. As they requested their names not to be mentioned, their names are withheld. Here, whatever inputs received from the Pondicherry friends are given without the square brackets [ ], whereas my comments, inferences and implications are given [in the square brackets as shown].<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Witzel had lots of holy things to say:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Ø      "Sayana, the commentator of Rigveda had been just 600 years elder to me", asserted Witzel<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Ø      Witzel claimed that Sayana from Karnataka, could not have understood the Sanskrit that was spoken in Punjab nearly 2000 years before him.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Ø      So his (Sayana's) commentary in many places and on many matters is unreliable except for the interpretation and conduct of Vedic sacrifices.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> Witzel guided by the holy Oryan powah!

I hope Witzel gets paid sufficiently to lie for his holy christian masters. Anyone here able to estimate how much it cost for Witzel to sell all his integrity (the scholarly and human kind)? I can't count so good, but made it all the way to 10c. In any case, I think he was shortchanged <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> Poor witzel. I'd have given him twice as much if he had just stuck to pure facts, that way he could have kept his integrity. Never mind. At least the non-existent holy spook - or the confessional - will absolve him of christolying.


<b>ADDED:</b>
Other recent HK entries on the poster boy of indology:
- http://haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx?P...908&SKIN=W
<b>Witzel, Harvard professor launches anti-Hindu Crusade</b>
05/07/2009 15:02:29 Dr. Srinivasan Kalyanaraman
- http://haindavakeralam.com/HkPage.aspx?P...927&SKIN=W
<b>"Conferences "of Micheal Witzel of Harvard University in Chennai</b>
09/07/2009 14:47:19 By Vedaprakash
- http://haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx?P...930&SKIN=B
<b>Who cares a damn who this Witzel is and what is his opinion about Hinduism ?</b>
09/07/2009 14:54:18 GSK Menon
- Copy of K.Ram's #45:
http://haindavakeralam.com/HkPage.aspx?P...928&SKIN=W
<b>An Aryan invader from America</b>
09/07/2009 14:32:01 V. Sundaram