I’ve read a couple of Bronkhorst’s papers, and again gist of some others from discussions elsewhere…
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Both are “mainstream” meaning they’ve got some factual backing and aren’t totally insane.
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I haven’t dug into the primary sources enough to have a strong opinion about whether either’s Big Story is right.
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Bronkhorst says some interesting things about the Buddhist adoption of Sanskit
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I mostly only know his Greater Magadha story. Useful review by
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My gut feel is that no one really understands what was going on before the Pala era, although everyone claims to.
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However, I haven’t studied anything before the Pala era, so this is quite likely just my ignorance.
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There is a great hole where the written documents should be, for the whole of southern Asia
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Exactly. Everyone claims to reconstruct the history by reading between the lines of scripture, which is all that’s left.
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But the scriptures are political propaganda, which mostly can’t be dated to even within a couple centuries.
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So it looks like a lot of self-delusion to me. But I haven’t bothered to dive in to get a properly-informed opinion.
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