S. S. Misra
S. S. Misra is an Indian linguist and senior professor in the Department of Linguistics in the Banaras Hindu University.
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[edit]- Classical Sanskrit is often called Paninian Sanskrit. Western scholars are of the opinion that this is a continuation of Old Indo-Aryan in the MIA period. This is only partially true.
- The Old Indo Aryan A Historical And Comparitive Grammar Vol. 1 Satya Swarup Misra [1]
Quotes about S.S. Misra
[edit]- Mallory (1997), for example, who is otherwise noteworthy for his thorough and fair approach to all points of view, characterizes S. S. Misra's entire position by a sole tongue-in-cheek comment that he sees fit to extract from Misra's book: "India has not been rejected as a potential homeland of the Indo-Europeans (pace Misra 1992: 41) only because 'it is a nice place to live and people would not move outside it'!" (104). Misra has dedicated a lifetime to writing dozens of specialized books on Indo-European languages, and, while one may not agree with some of his arguments in his book on the Aryan problem (such as the primacy of Sanskrit), his observations regarding the Finno-Ugric loans, at least, do merit a less flippant characterization and a more solid response.
- J.P. Mallory, quoted in Bryant Edwin, The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture, 2001, Oxford University Press