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Re: ARTICLE : Swami Vivekanand on origins of Shiva Lingam
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Subject: Re: ARTICLE : Swami Vivekanand on origins of Shiva Lingam
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From: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@braincells.com>
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 05:09:39 GMT
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Newsgroups: soc.religion.hindu, uk.religion.hindu
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Organization: Consolidated Braincells Inc.
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References: <5077uu$rer@news.ececs.uc.edu> <ghenDxBv3n.4D3@netcom.com> <ghenDxH6x2.Gzp@netcom.com> <ghenDy9Frn.7nH@netcom.com>
vivek@cs.rice.edu (Vivek Sadananda Pai) wrote in article
<ghenDy9Frn.7nH@netcom.com>...
> Actually, I only mentioned this because some other post some time back
> suggested that only the Shaivites were original and that Vaishnavism
> was brought in by invaders. The supporting argument was, I assume, the
> Indus Valley seals and the claim that these were a proto-Shiva.
>
Unfortunately in the intellectual sludge that is modern India that theory
is still popular. The usual "proof" though relies on the assumption that
the Ramayana depicts an Aryan invasion of Southern India.
Needless to say all of this is pseudo-science.
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