On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Kingsley Jegan Joseph > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> You know, sometimes I think that Mr. Mahadevan may be as >> over-enthusiastic in finding dravidian connections for Indus script as >> some of the right-leaners are about finding Sanskrit connections. >> > > Oh say, did you know the Pallavas were the Pahlevis of Iran. ;-) > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Parthian_Kingdom > http://iranian.com/History/2003/May/Pallava/ > http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/03/31/stories/2008033150300500.htm > > I think there's a line in the humanities (history, philosophy, the arts) > that gets crossed often, even by the best minds. When the thinker gets > carried away by the utter brilliance of the idea without pausing to > consider if it can be substantiated in fact, or whether it has useful > outcomes.
The Lambadis are from Lombard. (insert lungi-tearing joke here)
