Kazanas on Aryan Invasion on April 9 at Casurina

Greek Logos and Vedic Vac           Dr. Nicholas Kazanas

This stimulating essay starts off by examining the Greek and Christian concept of Logos — Speech — and the corresponding Vedic concept of Vāc. Reaching deep into the origin of language, it concludes that the latter alone denotes creation through speech and leads to a philosophical and grammatical system based on Vāc as a creative deity. 

Dr. Nicholas Kazanas is a Greek Indologist and a scholar of ancient Greek as well as Sanskrit. Some of his papers can be found on the website of the Omilos Meleton institute.

The paper was published in 2007 in Sanskrit Across Cultures, ed. Shashiprabha Kumar (New Delhi: D.K. Printworld); it is reproduced here with the author’s permission. It is available for download as a pdf file (210 kB) so as to preserve its diacritics.

Plato and the Upanishads   Dr. Nicholas Kazanas 

Parallels between Hindu and Greek philosophies have long been pointed out. This essay casts a fresh look at Plato’s and Upanishadic thought systems, pointing to important similarities but also substantial differences.

Dr. Nicholas Kazanas is a Greek Indologist and a scholar of ancient Greek as well as Sanskrit. Some of his papers can be found on the website of the Omilos Meleton institute.

The paper was published in 2005 by the Adyar Library & Research Centre, Chennai (also Wheaton, Illinois) and is reproduced here with the author’s permission. It is available for download as a pdf file (95 kB) so as to preserve its diacritics. 

Is the Aryan Invasion Theory Really Dead?

By  Dr Nicholas Kazanas  

Friday, 9^th April 2010  Casurina Hall 6:30 pm, Habitat Center Lodi Road, New Delhi 

A noted scholar of the RgVeda and Greek classics, Dr. Nicholas Kazanas has contested the views of many leading mainstream scholars of Europe and America who have propounded the Aryan invasion/migration into India. He is well placed to analyze this issue with his deep knowledge of Vedic Sanskrit and ancient Greek and his training in comparative linguistics. Dr. Kazanas  will take up the question and give his analysis, on the  origin of Vedic Aryans also stated in recent publication, Indo-aryans Origions and Other Vedic Issues.  

Bharat Gupt
Associate Professor, CVS, Delhi University,
Founder member and Trustee International Forum for India's Heritage. PO Box 8518, Ashok Vihar, Delhi 110052 INDIA. mail: bharatgupt@vsnl.com