Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
In a review of Professor Louis de la Vallée Poussin's book Le Védisme, p. 472 of this Journal, Mr. A. Berriedale Keith makes the following remark: “He [Poussin] is inclined with Barth and Winternitz not to reject as wrong Jacobi's great chronological argument: we think this is to be much too favourable to it. It cannot survive Whitney, Thibaut, and Oldenberg's onslaught.” As Mr. Keith probably does not stand alone in this opinion, may I be allowed to say a few words on this head?
page 721 note 1 Bühler ought not to be omitted; see his important paper in Indian Antiquary, 1894, p. 246 ff.Google Scholar
page 722 note 1 “Vorläufige Nachrichten über die Ausgrabungen in Boghaz-köi im Sommer 1907,” in the Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orientgesellschaft, Nro. 35.
page 723 note 2 Ibid. p. 51.
page 724 note 1 Sitzungsberichte der Königl. Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1908, p. 14 ff.Google Scholar; and in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung, vol. xlii, p. 24 ff.Google Scholar The latter article is a postscript to an article by the same author, written a year before: “Die ältesten datiorten Zeugnisse der iranischen Sprache.”
page 725 note 1 Zeitschrift, l.c., p. 22.Google Scholar
page 726 note 1 For to the five gods of the kings of Mitani must be added the Sun-god Šuriaš of the Kossæans (Kašši), who conquered Babylonia in 1760 B.C. .See Meyer, E. in Zeitsnhrift, l.c., p. 26.Google Scholar