Ponniyin Selvan Varalaatru Peravai

Hi,

VKR sir,

At least after this set of counter-evidences to your claims, can we PLEASE
set aside the wrong notions that you keep raising in the group?

Dear sir,

It’s not a question of getting agitated. The problem is that you, and
others, have been making these statements (I almost said idiotic
statements) with absolutely *no evidence whatsoever,* or indeed, […]

Maybe, but we don’t know what their burdens were… Or even if they are in
any way comparable…

Shash

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:29 AM, laxmanan kailasam

I’m saying that the specific numbers would have held back progress…

Much of science comes from people in different fields being able to
communicate and explore commonalities in their different fields. […]

Wonder if that was a detriment rather than an achievement. Or possibly both?

We can represent all these using a common notation. Imagine if you had to
learn hundreds of names for each denominator, and after that, […]

Then all it tells us is that there were a lot of inscriptions about taxes
in that time. Doesn’t mean that the taxes were higher.

On the other hand, rapid revisions of the tax code would indicate some
instability, […]

Like I said, many of the statements are unsupported. But the general
coverage is very good.

Some amount of one’s prejudices will creep into any of one’s writings. This
is true even of science and maths textbooks. […]

Reading the textbooks (I’m only reading 6th right now), I found some very
interesting things. First, the good:

1. On multiple “pasts”

Did you notice the title of this book, *Our Pasts? *We have used the word
[…]

Sir, I’m not sure what this table purports to show. Is it the ratio of the
number of inscriptions on taxes, or the percentages of those taxes? If the
latter, 0.15% seems absurdly low, and nearly 45% (if it’s given […]

Offering a non-conforming view point…

Wow, what a horrible article! He’s as a-historical about things as he
claims that the opposing party are!

Addressing some points:

If you see, India is one of the very […]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Sakthi Sree wrote:

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dear sir,

I mean the pressent form ” இந்தியா ” or India,

In Greek and Latin grammar, all these are interchangeable. The Tamil form,
obviously, […]

I don’t think the name India is that late; as early as the Maurya times,
Megasthanes used the term “Indica” for his book. The mode of computation
with the decimal system was referred to as “Modus Indorum” all […]

Probably you won’t find it in any Indian ones; maybe Greeks, maybe Persians
(though I’d expect Persians to use “Hind” instead).

Maybe in Ashoka’s rock edict which is in Greek? If you could find the […]

Hi,

They were described that way during the earliest period. Apparently they
became vedic later…

Shash

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 4:08 PM, sankaranarayanan k.s <[email protected]

It’s _also_ the name of Cambodia…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Cambodia

Very confusing!

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Shiv N. Shankar

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 3:14 PM, CTb Sivakumaran wrote:

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Yes.
And I suppose all these Prakrit ‘languages’ including Tamil were basically
vernaculars while Sanskrit was the scholastic.Guess this is what […]