Guest guest Posted October 4, 2002 Report Share Posted October 4, 2002 Dear Indologists, Anyone know what percentage of the Indian population are brahmin, Kshaitrya, Vaishya and Sudra? I know the figure for scheduled caste is around 15%. Leena T. --- naga_ganesan <naga_ganesan wrote: > > What do the listers think about the interactions > between > Greek and Indian philosophies discussed in a recent > book?: > McEvilley, Thomas, > The shape of ancient thought : comparative studies > of > Greek and Indian philosophies > New York : Allworth Press : School of Visual Arts, > c2002. > > Has any Sanskritist/Indologist review appeared > anywhere? > > --------- > > Dravidian koGku/kokku (> skt. zaGkha) & Greek word, > konkhos > -------------------------- > The root of Sanskrit word, 'zaGkha' (conch) can be > found > in Dravidian words, such as Tamil 'koGku'/'kokku'. > koGku is related > with kOTu 'coil, curve', kavaTi 'cowrie'. kOTu is > the conch > shell (Cf. NaRRiNai uses 'veN kOTu' white > conch). Tamils use 'kOTTunURu' (kOTu + nURu) for > 'conch line'. > kOTu and kavaTi/kavaLi mean 'curve, coil, horn' > etc., > kavaTi, (pronounced as kavaDi), is english cowrie > shell. > Another semantically related word for conch is > koGku 'curve, hill' etc., in tamil. > Drav. koGku is the likely root for Skt. zaGkha. > INDOLOGY/message/1571 > > See Dr. Piotr Gasiorowski in the IE list on the > possibility of konkhos in Greek as an Eastern loan: > cybalist/message/9494 > > Ancient Sumerians imported the zaGkha shells from > India: > cybalist/message/9634 > > The Greek konkhos/kokhlos may be ultimately related > to words like tamil koGku/kokku 'curve, coil, hill' > etc., > Another related word with the same root, "curving" > is > for herons: tamil kokku, telugu koGga 'heron'. > > Interestingly, in the Minoan palaces 4 quatrz-hard > rhytons have been found, and Near Eastern parallels > exist. Whether these ultimately are related to > Indian zaGkha, and its importance in Indian culture? > Two other relations between East and West: > a) The Pythagoras theorem has > been discovered in agnicayana ritual few > centuries earlier than Greek attestations, and > historians of Science are now sure that both > Greek and Vedic geometry have a common origin - > Most likely, the pre-Socratic philosophers heard > of it in Turkey region the Indian mathematics. > and b) The Gorgons, their tilaka-like marks, > the Perseus-Gorgon legend have an "oriental" > relation ultimately going to Indian sources. > (A. David Napier's books and 2001 paper) > > Regards, > N. Ganesan > > > New DSL Internet Access from SBC & http://sbc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 6, 2002 Report Share Posted October 6, 2002 leena taneja wrote: > Anyone know what percentage of the Indian population > are brahmin, Kshaitrya, Vaishya and Sudra? > I know the figure for scheduled caste is around 15%. Let me estimate the population of major groups based on old census data. These are based on old data, and thus can be off slightly. brahmin 6% rajputs etc 6% banias 5% jats etc 6% other cultivators 20% varous other castes 14% dalits 14% tribals 8% It is possible to come up with better estimates, but that will take some work. Yashwant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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