Indo-Iranian

[Stefan Georg]

>>Georg at home.ivm.de writes:

>>The Achaemenid inscriptions are easily datable, they fall mostly in the
>>6th/5th centuries B.C. Traditional datings of Zarathushtra put him in the
>>same time (mostly as a contemporary of Dareios I., but this has been
>>challenged, lately by Mary Boyce, who assigned him a date considerably
>>earlier on the time-scale >>

>-- I would agree, given the _extremely_ close correspondances between the
>earlier Avestan and Vedic Sanskrit.

As far as I remember - and I remember this only vaguely at best - this was
indeed part of the argument. Though, would archaicity of language *alone*
*really* justify such a drastic readjustment of historical dates ? But
maybe someone listening is better informed on this than I am, and there
maybe more reasons.

St.G.

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