Posts

Showing posts from August, 2015

More Oakish fantasies courtesy of our Hindutvadi friends

I came across this crank on Sabhlok's blog who left a comment around last year. Apparently a lot of this rubbish is courtesy of a Stephen Knapp who seems to have taken up the mantle on PN Oak of finding Hinduism in every nook and corner of the ancient world. Its best to dispel these before they gain further currency ala Sanskrit is the perfect language for developing software  , Vikramaditya ruled Kaaba or Taj Mahal was a Hindu palace. (My comments in Italics) see, we have to look at it this way. People from Hindu vedic culture migrated to other parts of the world and founded all the advanced civilizations of the world. We have 3 proofs. 1. Archaeological evidence – eg from south American Temples (Mayan) to Stonehenge in Britain No evidence for either being derived from Hinduism. The Hindu temples abounded in ancient Britain when Vedic culture pervaded the West. It has been already explained above that place-names ending in ‘shire’ testify to the existence of Shiva t