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    Michael Witzel (born July 18, 1943) is a German-American philologist, comparative mythologist and Indologist. Witzel is the Wales Professor of Sanskrit...
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    post-Vedic tradition, which also has two of Parikshit's son Janamejaya. Michael Witzel notes Parikṣhit to be an early Kuru king; he dates the Pārikṣita Dynasty...
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    (śruti-based) and Smarta (Smriti-based). The Śrauta rituals, states Michael Witzel, are an active area of study and are incompletely understood. Śrauta...
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    Witzel, Michael (2008). Gavin Flood (ed.). The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism. John Wiley & Sons. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-470-99868-7. Michael Witzel (2008)...
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    Witzel 2003, pp. 76–77. The Development of the Vedic Canon and its Schools, Michael Witzel, Harvard University Autochthonous Aryans? Michael Witzel,...
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  • related to Indo-European Angirôs found in an Aramaic text from Nippur. Michael Witzel states the etymology of Atharvan is Proto Indo-Iranian *atharwan "[ancient]...
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  • hymn (verses 5-21) of Book 7; the exact motivations are doubtful — Michael Witzel argues that it might have been a product of intra-tribal resentment...
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    usually dated to roughly between c. 1500 and 1000 BCE. According to Michael Witzel, the codification of the Rigveda took place at the end of the Rigvedic...
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  • Historicity of the Mahabharata Also, Witzel (1995) only refers to one Parikshit and one Janamejaya. Michael Witzel (1989), Tracing the Vedic dialects in...
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    used nowadays by opponents[who?] of the Indo-Aryan Migration theory. Michael Witzel: ...it has been supplanted by much more sophisticated models over the...
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