Amazing.https://manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/empedocles-and-vasishtha-agrigentum-and-mithila/ …
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Have you read "The Shape of Ancient Thought"? and what do you think of it? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/925680.The_Shape_of_Ancient_Thought …
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As for late McEvilley' book I am v.sympathetic towards the effort & reached comparable conclusions in course of my study of these issues. Re
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ading his book I did gain a few additional points of comparison on the matter being considered & use a term coined by him “macranthropy”
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frequently. That said, he's terribly wrong on many of issues concerning the Indian side of things. This betrays a lack of specialist knowled
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ge of India & over-reliance on secondary sources that weaken aspects of his thesis. For instance his claim for the existence of an extensive
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body of texts of pre-Aryan provenance which contributed the shaivAgama-s, major body of H religions texts is outright wrong. His understand
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ing of the IE religion inherited from the PIE or early IE ancestor is also flawed. These are things I've criticized. Hence, 1 who's not well
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versed in Indian thought can be misled by the book.
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Yes so most people will be mislead. This is why I was cautious based on your throwaway comments. :)
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