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This was 250 - 400 years before the earliest Sanskrit inscription (found in Northern Syria linked to the Mittani). So this would predate that by quite a bit.
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 2y ago
This was 250 - 400 years before the earliest Sanskrit inscription (found in Northern Syria linked to the Mittani).
So this would predate that by quite a bit.
- jdougan 2y agoNit, it is spelled Mitanni when referring to the peoples. When spelled Mittani it refers to the former Eve Online space tyrant.
- aapoalas 2y agoOoh, Mittens!
- wl 2y agoThe inscriptions you refer to aren't Sanskrit, but Hurrian. The inscriptions in question contain Indo-European loan words and seemingly reference Vedic gods, but that does not make them Sanskrit inscriptions. If you're looking for the earliest Sanskrit inscriptions, you're looking to the first century BCE, over a millennium and a half later than this plaque. We have Sanskrit texts that are older than this, but the physical artifacts are newer copies of older copies that don't survive.