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> i believe the dish described is basically the same "Basically the same" as what? "Soup" is a very broad term encompassing many, many dishes. > and the artha
by jogjayr 8y ago
> i believe the dish described is basically the same
"Basically the same" as what? "Soup" is a very broad term encompassing many, many dishes.
> and the arthashastra in any case outclasses all other attestations even if you take western dating
The Arthashastra is supposedly from the 2nd century BCE[1], but even if it's as old as Sanskrit itself[2], it still comes at least 15,000 years after the first evidence of soup. Soup is older than any language that's known today. Why would other cultures suddenly start using a Sanskrit word for a food that they've known and enjoyed for thousands of years?
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthashastra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthashastra
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit