Source: – Joseph T Noony / Twitter.
Further confirmation that agriculture was an indigenous development in India.
"Our results—combined with archaeological evidence of XI cultivation for >9,000 years in both India and China—support multiple independent domestications of O. sativa." https://t.co/9FmFMtlye0
— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) April 29, 2018
The words dhana, dhaana, dhanya found in verses such as IV.24.7, I.16.2 & V.53.13 mean either rice or cereals in general. According to the ancient surgeon Sushruta, only rice is dhanya, the others are kudhanya.
According to Sayana, tandula in 1.16.2 refers to rice porridge.— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) May 12, 2018
Vrihi appears three times in his commentary of III.56.3. But ALL Muellerian have translated it as wheat or barley! Many rice dishes are mentioned-
Apupa- rice cake- III. 52.1, 7
Tandula-rice porridge-I.16.2
Purodasa:ground rice cakes-III. 28.1-6
Odana: boiled rice VIII. 69.14— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) May 12, 2018
The inescapable Biblical bias in western scholarship assumes agriculture began incontestably in the fertile crescent & 'spread to South Asia'
Lahuradeva lake gives-
Carbonized rice grains from ~11,000BCE
Evidence of slash & burn agriculture ~13,000BCE
1/nhttps://t.co/88ANBnyknr— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) June 16, 2018
Horton Plains in Sri Lanka- early exploitation of wild barley & oats~15,500 BCE
Nilgiri Hills~11,500 BCE
Sambar lake~8300BCE
Prayaga- Multiple cropping with many types of wheat ,rice & legumes- 7th mBCEIndigenous, diverse, widely spread & very possibly older than the crescent
— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) June 16, 2018
