Long ago - on this list, and perhaps more than once I put up my now "ho hum" well known observations about similarities in Indo-European languages.
For example: "danta"- dental "sarpa"-serpent "kamra"-camera-chambre-chamber-room But all these are well known. Recently I have been wondering if there are any less well known/acknowledged similarities in history and culture. There is a Cupid equivalent - Kama - who has a bow that acts pretty much like Cupids bow. Curiously Kama has another name - "Manmatha" who I think was a drop dead handsome hunk like Adonis. Let me get on to some more blasphemous stuff. The Ramayana and the Iliad are both long poems about a married woman who gets kidnapped and taken off to an island and requires rescue. Krishna in the Mahabharatha has a weak spot - his left heel - which is targeted to kill him. Achilles too had his weak spot in the heel. In all cases there is a Homer connection. Am I dreaming or am I the first person in the universe to see these links? If I am, remember - you heard it here first. shiv
