The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #34201   Message #464346
Posted By: toadfrog
16-May-01 - 10:32 PM
Thread Name: Shenandoah Origin
Subject: RE: Shenandoah Origin
Malcom Douglas:

Your common sense is much appreciated! Folk music is a really rich area for BS, and it is good to see it does not dominate here!

Your namesake, Malcom Forbes, an incredibly learned man, wrote a history of chess in which he concluded that the original game, chataranga, dated from 5000 B.C.! Because the name derived from the 4 divisions of Vedic armies, and he thought the Vedas went back that far.