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Page 376
... Sanskrit as a poetic medium is nowhere more marked . A lyric poem , the " Meghadūta , " " Cloud Messenger , " contains , interspersed in a message from a lover to his absent beloved , a series of unexcelled and knowledgeable vignettes ...
... Sanskrit as a poetic medium is nowhere more marked . A lyric poem , the " Meghadūta , " " Cloud Messenger , " contains , interspersed in a message from a lover to his absent beloved , a series of unexcelled and knowledgeable vignettes ...
Page 659
... Sanskrit and modern Hindi are written , is of this type , and the Mycenaean writing sys- tem , a form of Greek writing in use in the 2nd millen- nium BC and quite independent of the later Greek alpha- bet , was syllabic in structure ...
... Sanskrit and modern Hindi are written , is of this type , and the Mycenaean writing sys- tem , a form of Greek writing in use in the 2nd millen- nium BC and quite independent of the later Greek alpha- bet , was syllabic in structure ...
Page 1008
... Sanskrit Slavic р p f р р b b p b b ph f / b b bh b t t Ꮎ t t d d t d th f / d d dh d d that , when other Indo - European languages , including Latin and Greek , have a voiced unaspirated stop ( b , d ) , Gothic has the corresponding ...
... Sanskrit Slavic р p f р р b b p b b ph f / b b bh b t t Ꮎ t t d d t d th f / d d dh d d that , when other Indo - European languages , including Latin and Greek , have a voiced unaspirated stop ( b , d ) , Gothic has the corresponding ...
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