SV: [Y-Indology] Q: Aban Yasht and Rig Veda

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suvidya [sMTP:suvidya] skrev 28. mai 2001

00:36:

> The Aban Yasht that has the Avestan river goddess Ardvi Sura Anahita

> clothed with beaver skins, also has the river goddess having a

> thousand cells and channels, each with a hundred windows, a thousand

> columns and ten thousand balconies.

>

> Did the Avestans have such palaces while the Rig Vedic Aryans were

> still dwelling in huts ?

 

The Iranians migrated into an area which had known impressive buildings for

at least 2000 years I believe. I don't know what kind of huts or houses

Avestan speakers had, but they must have been familiar with the monuments

of Mesopotamia (which the Persians eventually took over).

 

Lars Martin Fosse

 

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[Guest guest]

I thought that only Southwestern Iran (Elam) had these impressive

buildings, and Avestans reached there only by 700 BC.

This would be 300 to 700 years after the period of the Rig Veda,

and certainly not contemporaneous with it.

 

-Arun Gupta

 

 

 

INDOLOGY, Lars Martin Fosse <lmfosse@o...> wrote:

 

>

> The Iranians migrated into an area which had known impressive buildings for

> at least 2000 years I believe. I don't know what kind of huts or houses

> Avestan speakers had, but they must have been familiar with the monuments

> of Mesopotamia (which the Persians eventually took over).

>

> Lars Martin Fosse

>

> Dr. art. Lars Martin Fosse

> Haugerudvn. 76, Leil. 114,

> 0674 Oslo

> Norway

> Phone: +47 22 32 12 19

> Mobile phone: +47 90 91 91 45

> Fax 1: +47 22 32 12 19

> Fax 2: +47 85 02 12 50 (InFax)

> Email: lmfosse@o...