Sanskrit
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Browncast Episode 32: Indian Linguistics Podcast
On Browncast Episode 32, a panel of linguists surveys language in South Asia, including Sanskrit as a literary lingua franca until the late medieval period, regional dialects, and English’s emergence…
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Book Review: The RigVeda
Reviews Ralph Griffith’s translation of the Rig Veda, read through selected hymns from all ten books as a window onto the Indo-European ‘heroic age’ rather than as scripture, noting the…
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A Glance at the AIT, OIT, Rig Veda..
Not a Vedic scholar, the author shares first impressions from reading selected Rig Veda hymns in Ralph Griffith’s translation as a window onto the Indo-European world, and invites readers to…
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Sava-asana at 7000 ft
A piece on ski yoga, with the poster noting that Sanskrit, language of the gods, survives mainly through yoga postures in the West and hoping Westerners will learn the pronunciation…
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the Sanskrit tongue was chilled at 500metres
Notes on a book’s geographic account of Eurasia, including how Indian civilisation was a lowland phenomenon, Sanskrit’s reach, and Pakistan and Iraq as illogically drawn states.
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