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<p>[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 3716838, member: 93416"]I agree your key point here. We do need to step back from very specific suggestions. But I think something rather more general probably still might stand up. Recall that there were somewhat trinitarian ideas in Plato long before Christianity, and surely we find the same in India. The possible association of the three jewels of Buddhism with the ancient nandipada symbol springs to mind. Its hard to keep track of the ways theologies mutate. Around 1000 AD the Islamic scientist Alberuni was rather fascinated with the notions of Trinitarianism in both Christianity and Hinduism.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank for the kind comments on Jitals. I often fear the main message I was aiming at gets missed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those coins seem to me to tell a big story. It starts with a cultural fixed kind of hard money policy, inherited from the Sasanids by Islam. And how and why that collapsed, and how a fiat money policy with cultural roots in India filled the void in Afghanistan. And how and why that in turn collapsed, amidst even more disastrous turns of events.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is all that the sort of story Barbara Tuchman called “A Distant Mirror”? Readers must decide for themselves.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 3716838, member: 93416"]I agree your key point here. We do need to step back from very specific suggestions. But I think something rather more general probably still might stand up. Recall that there were somewhat trinitarian ideas in Plato long before Christianity, and surely we find the same in India. The possible association of the three jewels of Buddhism with the ancient nandipada symbol springs to mind. Its hard to keep track of the ways theologies mutate. Around 1000 AD the Islamic scientist Alberuni was rather fascinated with the notions of Trinitarianism in both Christianity and Hinduism. Thank for the kind comments on Jitals. I often fear the main message I was aiming at gets missed. Those coins seem to me to tell a big story. It starts with a cultural fixed kind of hard money policy, inherited from the Sasanids by Islam. And how and why that collapsed, and how a fiat money policy with cultural roots in India filled the void in Afghanistan. And how and why that in turn collapsed, amidst even more disastrous turns of events. Is all that the sort of story Barbara Tuchman called “A Distant Mirror”? Readers must decide for themselves. Rob T[/QUOTE]
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