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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:
> Ballester could have used the Rig Veda as an example. The people of
> the Indian subcontinent have achieved the impossible. A text has been
> preserved like a tape recording for at least 3500 (6500 really)
> years.
Do you mean that the metal oxide is flaking off?
A. From the metre, it seems that i > y /_V and u > v / _V have
occurred since composition.
B. There's evidence (mostly metrical) of laryngeals in the original.
C. (I may be wrong on this one.) Why does _duhita:_ scan as
long-short-long?
When does the xxxx years end? One frequently reads of regional
variations in pronunciation.
Richard.