http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/ India Archaeology Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:35:57 GMT venkata krishnan http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7569 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7569 Sorry, the mail was sent before I finished typing.To continue: ?????????It is certain that modern science is?going to establish with evidences that Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:35:52 GMT venkata krishnan http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7568 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7568 Dear All, ???????????? In my research the Greek civilization and not just Greek?but all the so called Ancient civilization of the world are the Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:35:35 GMT S Sampath http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7567 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7567 Yavana is any foreigner, barbarian. (the word is applied at present to a mohamedan or an european). A mlechcha is a person non conforming to sanatana Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:35:30 GMT venkata krishnan http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7566 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7566 Dear Mr.Carlos Aramayo,                                       In Mahabharata by Vedavyasa there is a mentioning of Lord Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:35:17 GMT JK http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7565 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7565 http://tinyurl.com/5mrtm5 Culture of peace TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY BENOY K. BEHL The Upanishads, composed in the 8th or 9th century B.C., form the basis of all Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:39:30 GMT koenraad_elst http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7564 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7564 ... were ... to ... framework. ... puts ... tell ... and so ... I never meant that Parashara confused the sidereealkl zodiac with the tropical (half-)seasons. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:39:15 GMT adhin88 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7563 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7563 taM kiM ma¨¾¨¾asi assal¨¡yana, sutaM te: 'yonakambojesu a¨¾¨¾esu ca paccantimesu janapadesu dveva vaNN¨¡, ayyo ceva d¨¡so ca. Ayyo hutv¨¡ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:38:28 GMT Sunil Bhattacharjya http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7562 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7562 DearAvtarji, QUOTE A running translation of the same could be "Yavanas are mlechhas. This shastra, i.e. predictive astrology, is well established in them. As Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:16:31 GMT Avtar Krishen Kaul http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7561 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7561 Dear Subrahmanyaji, There are quite a few references in the Puranas to Yavanas. Yavans have been treated as "papas" i.e. a "sinful commuity" in the following Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:16:21 GMT Sreenadh http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7560 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7560 Dear Koenraad Elst ji, Please read my comments in brown. ... Jain ... by ... this ... Dakshinayana ... 1400 ... to BC ... Give or take a few decades, this date Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:16:09 GMT Carlos Aramayo http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7559 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7559 Dear Sreenadh, ... I think the most helpful assertion on this matter is given in Message 4301 here in IndiaArchaeology group from Dec 18, 2006, where it is Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:15:59 GMT Carlos Aramayo http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7558 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7558 ... This shows that the word YAVANA is attested in the COMMENTARIES to two Suttas of the Digha Nikaya and Anguttara Nikaya; and the word YONA is attested in Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:15:54 GMT ravilochanan iyengar http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7557 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7557 Dear Francesco   the quotes are really useful... while i always used to think that Indians knew Ionian Greeks a few centuries before Alexander (due to the Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:15:47 GMT Ram Varmha http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7556 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7556   Though there is no specific proof to this, it is said that the Jews came to Kerala during the time of King Solomon of Israel.   We are on firmer grounds Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:15:37 GMT S. Kalyanaraman http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7555 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndiaArchaeology/message/7555 www.sciencemag.org Science, Vol. 321, 8 August 2008, p.745 Ismail Serageldin, "Science in Muslim countries" (editorial) "Yes it was our Muslim forefathers who