The Sanskrit alphabet has 50 letters, with the pronunciation of each letter involving a specific location in the mouth. To chant Sanskrit sacred texts constitutes natural pranayam, which confers ...

The Sanskrit alphabet, which von Böhtlingk would have known intimately, was itself a periodic system: the arrangement demonstrates how letters can combine to form sounds, much like the periodic ...

Sanskrit has 48 basic sounds in the alphabet (not including tone and other modifying factors.) Sir John Woodroffe, a British Orientalist who studied the Tantras and other Hindu traditions, discussed ...

The symbol has been known by several names. The word "swastika" — from the Sanskrit word "svastika ... And elements of it featured in the Norse runic alphabet, Heller said.