Eminent Sanskrit scholar Dr Prabhakar Pandurang Apte, who was known for his work on the ‘Agamas’, has passed away in Maharashtra’s Thane, family sources said on Friday. He was 92. Apte died on ...

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The dictionary also presents commentaries and ... Sindhi, Gujarati, and Sanskrit etymologies” said Dr. Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh, Chair of Religious Studies at Colby College.

“For instance, Devaneya Pavanar, a great etymologist, noted that the Tamil word puri transformed into the Sanskrit word ‘pri.’ When I was going through the English etymological ...

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But exactly when this calendar, which is based on the Sanskrit treatise Surya Siddhanta ... calendar),” historians Kunal and Shubhra Chakrabarti wrote in The Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis ...

He also compiled an English-Persian lexicon, a bilingual dictionary that aided scholars in bridging linguistic divides. De’s translations of Sanskrit texts were extensive. He worked on the Rig Veda, ...