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Revision as of 03:48, 11 December 2005 by 72.136.76.224 (talk) (→External links)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Michael E. J. Witzel (born 1943) is Wales Professor of Sanskrit and Chair of the Committee on South Asian Studies at Harvard University. He has been teaching Sanskrit since 1972. He is noted for his studies of the dialects of Vedic Sanskrit, and the development of Vedic religion.
External links
- http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm (Page of Michael Witzel belonging to the controversial "invasionist" school of Indian history. We must remember that recently Witzel was found mistranslating a verse of Baudhayana Srauta Sutra in order to confirm his theories)
- http://mihira.blogspot.com/2004/05/harvard-awards-phd-degree-to-lamp-post.html
- http://users.primushost.com/~india/ejvs/mejw.html
- Article that criticizes Michael WEASAL's understanding of Panini, ,
- Witzel's Vanishing Ocean - How to Interpret the Vedic Texts Anyway you Want by David Frawley
Talageri - Witzel flamewar
- The Rig Veda - A historical analysis (Chapter 9) Shrikant G. Talageri
- review by Michael Witzel (pdf version) Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies Vol. 7 (2001), issue 2 (March 31). Witzel considers Talageri's book a Hindutva-inspired "historical fantasy"