Pusalkar's reading

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Apparently, many amateur historians of India are

inventing horses in the IVC seals and bones of horses

in the IVC times (Cf. Farmer & Witzel on the horse seals

in Frontline).

 

An Indologist (not in our list) once told me:

>Ultimately, it enables one to evade common sense to substitute

>rather quirky meanings, ... A. C. Pusalkar, who insisted that

>the Indus-Valley Civilization was Vedic, was troubled by the lack of

>horses (which appear in almost every Vedic hymn) in the IV civ.

>He solved this by proclaiming that wherever "horse" appeared in the

>Vedas, it actually meant "sun."

 

Is Pusalkar an early Out-of-India theorist? In what book

or article, he talks of equating Vedic horse with "sun"?

 

Thanks for the citation,

N. Ganesan