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Dasa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1690 words) |
 | During the nineteenth century Western scholars identified the Dasa with dark-skinned Dravidian speaking peoples, but more recent scholars, notably Asko Parpola, have claimed that they were fellow Indo-Europeans, who initially rejected Aryan religious practices but were later merged with them. |
| Sethna (1992) writes, referring to a comment by Richard Hartz, that "there is no need to follow Parpola in assuming a further unexpressed word meaning "people" in the middle of the compound krsnayonih", and the better known translation by Griffith, i.e. |
| Parpola, Asko: 1988, The Coming of the Aryans to Iran and India and the Cultural and Ethnic Identity of the Dasas; The problem of the Aryans and the Soma. |
| Aryan Invasion Theroy and Politics: The Case of David Duke (7271 words) |
| Asko Parpola confirms: "It seems significant that painted Mature Harappan potsherds from Amri III A and C combine the motifs of 'fish' and 'star'. |
| Asko Parpola and his followers cannot help it that no Harappan Rosetta stone is available, but that fact nonetheless makes the task they have set themselves extra difficult. |
| Asko Parpola dismisses the Indo-Aryan Harappa school curtly: "It is now common knowledge that Brahmi (first attested in Asoka's edicts c.250 BC) is derived from the Semitic consonantal alphabet, which in turn is derived from Egyptian hieroglyphics. |
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