Guest guest Posted May 7, 2001 Report Share Posted May 7, 2001 INDOLOGY, rao.3@o... wrote: > INDOLOGY, Lars Martin Fosse <lmfosse@o...> wrote: > That brings me to a question I had asked in the original Indology > list, but to which I never got an answer: If an author exhibited/s > towards blacks or women the same attitude that Whitney had towards > "Hindus", would his books be used in a `first course'? Yet we find > Whitney's Sanskrit grammar used as the textbook for first courses > in Sanskrit (including here at The Ohio State University, as the > official name has it). How can this be justified? It might be and is justified by excellency of his Grammar. What his ideas were on any other subject is irrelevant to the question how well the Grammar reflects the written corpus of Sanskrit. "ad hominem" arguments is a phallacy -- at least in the Western tradition of thought. :-) Best regards, Dmitri. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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