Indo-Aryan Origins and Other Vedic Issues

Nicholas Kazanas

ISBN 10: 8177421158 ISBN 13: 9788177421156

Publisher: Aditya Prakashan, 2019

Pages: 388
About the Book

This book contains studies by well-known Greek Indologist who repeatedly considers the thorny problem of Indoaryan origins and finds its solution in indigenism. The studies examine various aspects of the Indo-European common heritage and of the Vedic Tradition. One study analyses the position of the early Hittite Culture in relation to the other IE branches and especially Vedic. Another traces the common names of deities in the different IE cultures. Two studies compare Vedic and Mesopotamian and Vedic and Egyptian interconnections respectively. Others examine purely Vedic issues like the religio - philosophical thought in the Vedas and the real meaning of the worlds pur’ defensive structure’ and samudra confluence of waters, ocean.’ In all these studies the Vedic inheritance emerges as the oldest of all IE traditions, older than even the Near eastern cultures; the bulk of the Rgveda hymns appear to have been composed in the 4th millennium; and the Indoaryans are shown to have been residing in North-West India (and Pakistan)since about 5000 BCE. The writer arrives at these conclusions by examining and comparing evidences from the linguistic, literary, anthropological and archaeological fields (and from Genetics).

About the Author

Dr. Nicholas Kazanas is Greek born. He was educated chiefly in Britain. He read English Literatire in University College; Economics and Philosophy at the School of Economic Science; Sanskrit in the School of Oriental and African Studies – all in London. He did his post-graduate studies at SOAS and in Pune and Varanasi. He taught for some years in London. For more than 20 years now he is the Director of Omilos Meleton, a Cultural Institute in Athens.

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