--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" <richard@...> wrote: > > > > Oh empty baby I'm so sorry - I didn't know you were > > > a stupid, seventy year old too... > > > > emptybill: > > I correct myself ... your not even a rakshasa. > > Only a fool claims to be a devi-fucking shiva. > > Yer just a bragging little pasu. > > > You'd think that a pundit over seventy years of age would > have taught himself a little Sanskrit by now. Everyone > knows that the Aryans who raped India called the > indigenous population 'rakshasas' which translated means > 'nigger-devil'. What took you so long to show your racial > prejudice? Go figure. > > According to the Dictionary of Hinduism, the term Raksasa > is "...an epithet applied in the Rig Veda to Indian > indigenes whose characteristics were likened to demons of > popular folklore. Most of the native resistance to the > Aryan infiltration was made from fortified positions, that > offered by less organized tribes consisted of guerrilla > tactics from forest hiding places, which Indra was > constantly invoked to burn and destroy. (R.V. I.76,3, > etc)" (245). > > Reference: > > "Dictionary of Hinduism" > Its Mythology, Folklore, Philosophy, Literature, and History > By M. and J. Stutley > Harper & Row, 1977
Interesting summary of more recent investigations of the Aryan invasion hypothesis, which has not held up well in recent years. THE MYTH OF ARYAN INVASIONS OF INDIA http://www.uwf.edu/lgoel/documents/AMythofAryanInvasionsofIndia.pdf
