Sanskrit
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Pāṇini, the “Glitch,” and a Note From an Old Cambridge Friend
X.T.M introduces Rishi Rajpopat’s new book Pāṇini’s Perfect Rule, which argues that the supposed rule-conflict flaw in Pāṇini’s grammar never existed because the system already resolves it. He is arranging…
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Indra – the dragon slayer
The author describes a Python script built to search the Vedic corpus for verses on Vritra, then shares a Claude-generated summary of the Rigvedic myth. It presents Indra as slayer…
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Capsule Review: How to Love in Sanskrit
Omar Ali recommends a Kindle collection of short Sanskrit poems and prose about love and longing, with contemporary translations and originals in the footnotes, calling it fun and worth a…
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Can Linguistics prove AMT & reject OIT ?
The author challenges the claim that linguistics makes India impossible as an Indo-European homeland, saying supporters of the Aryan Migration Theory rarely explain why the evidence is incontrovertible, and works…
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Agriculture and the Indo-Europeans – Steppe and South Asia
The author argues that Proto-Indo-Europeans were farmers rather than pastoralists, citing the substantial agricultural vocabulary Indo-Iranians share with other Indo-European branches and treating the older belief that they lacked it…
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Monkeys and the Indo-Europeans – Revised & Enlarged
A revised and enlarged post on monkeys and the Indo-Europeans, prompted by a reader’s comment; nearly all of the text, which appears to be in Devanagari, is lost in conversion,…
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Monkey and the Indo-Europeans
Starting from Gamkrelidze and Ivanov’s claim that Proto-Indo-Europeans knew the monkey, the author argues their arguments better support an Indian homeland, and that the word may have entered Indo-European from…
