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Meyna grisea and M. peltata, two new records from Imphal Valley, Manipur, India, characterised by a capitate stigma with 4–5 divergent, spreading lobes on a globose base, and a prominent peltate stigma, respectively, are described and illustrated here. Photographs, key to the species, along with their coordinates and diagnostic characters in comparison
Pallavi B. Dhal +3 more
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श्रीमद्भगवद्गीतायामात्मतत्त्वम्
ईश्वरः परमः कृष्णः सच्चिदानन्दः विग्रहः। अनादिरादिर्गोविन्दः सर्वकारणकारणम् ॥ ज्ञानाधिकरणमात्मा इति तर्कशास्त्रानुसारं ज्ञानं चैतन्यं वा आत्मा। आत्मा नित्यः, एकः, क्षयरहितश्च। स्थूलदृष्ट्या अयमात्मा द्विविधः। परमात्मा जीवात्मा चेति। परमात्मा प्रधान ...
Sangita Sen
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The Elephant's Footprint: An Ancient Indian Logic Diagram
A seminal article by Margaret Baron, published in 1969, explored the history of set diagrams (Venn diagrams). However, Baron did not look beyond the evidence of European sources. This article presents evidence of a literary simile from ancient India that
Dominik Wujastyk
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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Royal Patronage of Sanskrit & Mahmood Shah I
It is a common notion that during the reign of Muslim kings or Sultans, Sanskrit was not given much attention, and that was one of the reasons it declined.
Dr. Arshad Mehmood Hashmi
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Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit
Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe +2 more
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Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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मानव जीवन के कल्याण हेतु यज्ञ - वैदिक वांग्मय के सन्दर्भ में
भारतीय परंपराओं के प्रचलन में तत्वदर्शी ऋषियो ने यज्ञ को भारतीय धर्म का पिता कहा गया है जिसमें मनुष्य जीवन का भी समग्र दर्शन समाहित है। मानव जीवन में यज्ञ की अनिवार्यता वैदिक वांग्मय का निर्देश है। मनुष्य जीवन के विविध आयाम में यज्ञ लाभ को वैदिक वांग्मय
Tanushee Pathak, Gayatri Kishor
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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