Continuation of the summary of the video I posted debunking AIT:
Then the speaker talks about the American academia - how when the american text books write about Muslims, they consult Muslims, Jews, they consult jews and of course when they write about Xtians, they consult Xtians. but when they write about Hindus, they consult no Hindus and just write whatever they want to write.
Recently American Hindus there challenged this process of writing about Hindus and Hinduism, and that Hindus should be consulted before they are written about. This was opposed by the Witzel(and though the speaker does not mention, I know Romilla thappar too did it too) and his likes, through signature campaigns and they were silenced(see how pathetic Hindus are. ) .
When asked to comment on his third book, Witzel just said - "I dont want to talk about it" claims the speaker
. The speaker claims that his third book contains pages and pages of data on Rig Veda and
Augusta(not sure what it is)? and not just simple speculations on OIT. The author is challenging anyone to disprove his data. He also claims that his data is absolute.
The Author makes it clear that by OIT, he means that only the languages went out and that Hinduism is related only to India and unique to India. He claims that Vedas do not contains what we consider to be modern Hindu culture.
First Linguistic Argument -
1. Early western works on Indo european languages actually made Vedic Sanskrit the earliest language of the Aryan Language tree. There are actually several early 19th century works available , done by western authors claiming so . But it was soon discovered that Vedic sanskrit is itself a derived language and hence not a origin language. But this supposedly triggered an opposite reaction claiming that since Vedic sanskrit was not the original source of language, then it automatically must mean that India was not the original homeland. So they started to construct theories on why South Russia must be the Aryan homeland while the Sanskrit scholars insisted on Sanskrit being the original language and India being the homeland.
But the author claims that this whole reasoning, by both sides is flawed - the flaw being , since Vedic sanskrit was itself a reconstructed derivative language of Proto Aryan Language, then so must the language of South russia(or the Slavic languages.). In fact, the author claims that Slavic languages are even more reconstructed, or even more derivative of the original Proto Aryan language and so it is more unlikely that South Russia was the original homeland of the Proto Aryan Language .
2. Also, he claims that the Vedic sanskrit is much closer to the proto aryan language than any Indian language
For eg, Childe` gives 72 basic cognate Proto Indo European words constructed scientifically?!?! of which
Sanskrit has 70 words, German- 46 words, Baltic - 23 words, Slavic -16 words, Greek - 48 words etc.
He claims that Sanskrit has three genders, three numbers - (he , we two, we all) and eight cases(whatever that is) and that it is the only Aryan language besides the Proto Indo European language to have all of this intact.
3. He claims that Griffith claims that there are Sanskrit base and roots for Greek, Teuton, Latin, Slavonian, Celtic
There are words which are in Aryan language family like in German and English for example, which remain unrelated, unless you find the link word, which invariably is found in Sanskrit(more proof that Sanskrit was more original that Slavik or Central asia or Any other european language)
4. He claims that Vedic myths went to these places and not the other way around. He also claims vedic gods were different from puranic gods - Agni, mithra, ruthra of Vedas. These all are represented in the Mythology of Greece, Hittites, Lithuania(yes, that lithuania onleee
) etc. He also quotes from Griffith on how Vedas throw light on the religious practices of the europeans before the introduction of Christianity.
When you compare greek and Vedic mythologies, there are many common elements. If you compare german and Vedic mythologies, you find so many common elements. But if you compere German and Greek, there are no common elements. More proof that Vedas were the common ancestors.
5. Also, Iranian Mythology has common elements ONLY with Vedic mythology. But, According to AIT - Aryans came from South Russia to Central Asia and there they seperated. This cant be the case when Iranian mythology has nothing in common with any other mythology of the European countries of that time
6. He claims that Vedic gods provide explanation for the origin of the Gods of the Greek and Romans - Pithru in Vedas- Jupiter in Rome, .,ie vedas provide the links to why Romans considered Jupiter as their god. He claims that Mcdonalds claim that Vedic gods are close to the physical forms they represent than any other mythological gods of any Indo European Mythology.
7. According to AIT - Aryans originated in the South Russia and migrated slowly, over centuries eastwards - settling and moving on. While they were moving, they gradually picked up and assimilited to the local population culture and religion while they moved on as a much mixed population of Aryans step by step.. But According to witzel, people of the Central asia got completely aryanised(.ie
Mixed aryan people completely aryanised non aryan people, while being mixed aryans
) .
8. And these Aryanised local population of Central asia moved into Punjab and Aryanised the local population, as per Witzel, claims the speaker. To get a perspective, imagine that the bunch of nomads of Central Asia, who themselves were not Aryans but were Aryanised Central Asians , came in as small and uncollected groups of nomads, why completely aryanised the settled civilisation of Indus Valley,which at the time had the highest population in the world, ie The few hundred Central asians made the millions who lived in the IVC to stop being Dravidians(or whatever he cooked them up to be) and made them to speak Aryan Languages. The millions who lived in IVC gave up all their religion and just adopted the religion of the few hundred nomadic Aryans who migrated