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... Sanskrit . - Inscriptions of Piyadasi , third century B. C. - Buddhist Sanskrit . - Renaissance of San- skrit literature . - Prâkrit . - Vernaculars . - Sacred Books . - Iranic class . - Cuneiform Persian inscriptions . — Pehlevi ...
... Sanskrit . - Inscriptions of Piyadasi , third century B. C. - Buddhist Sanskrit . - Renaissance of San- skrit literature . - Prâkrit . - Vernaculars . - Sacred Books . - Iranic class . - Cuneiform Persian inscriptions . — Pehlevi ...
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... Sanskrit on the Veda , the professor of Hebrew on the Old Testa- ment . Lately , however , separate chairs have been created for Comparative Theology in Germany also , and even in the Roman Catholic University of Frei- burg this new ...
... Sanskrit on the Veda , the professor of Hebrew on the Old Testa- ment . Lately , however , separate chairs have been created for Comparative Theology in Germany also , and even in the Roman Catholic University of Frei- burg this new ...
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... Sanskrit was not known then as it is now , and the whole literature on which Sâyana's great commentary on the Rig - veda is founded , was then almost entirely a terra incognita , and had first to be discovered , and to be studied from ...
... Sanskrit was not known then as it is now , and the whole literature on which Sâyana's great commentary on the Rig - veda is founded , was then almost entirely a terra incognita , and had first to be discovered , and to be studied from ...
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... Sanskrit deva , perhaps also the Greek Oeós , though neither of these etymologies is in strict accordance with phonetic rules 1 , and that deva meant originally , bright . This is extremely important as showing us that one of the many ...
... Sanskrit deva , perhaps also the Greek Oeós , though neither of these etymologies is in strict accordance with phonetic rules 1 , and that deva meant originally , bright . This is extremely important as showing us that one of the many ...
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... Sanskrit tyag , to leave , is not tenable , on account of the difference of meaning ; see Kuhn's Zeitschrift , xxv , p . 301. If an etymology must be given , I should connect σéßas with ooẞéw , to scare away , and Sanskrit kshubh , to ...
... Sanskrit tyag , to leave , is not tenable , on account of the difference of meaning ; see Kuhn's Zeitschrift , xxv , p . 301. If an etymology must be given , I should connect σéßas with ooẞéw , to scare away , and Sanskrit kshubh , to ...
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