Re: Books for sanskrit self-study

Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpjonsson@...>:

> Philip Newton skrev:
> > On 7/7/06, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpjonsson@...> wrote:
> >
> >> BTW I once read about a Swedish gypsy man who
> >> came to the Sanskrit professor at Uppsala (IIRC)
> >> because he wanted to learn "Sannskriften".
> >
> >
> > "Truth writings"?
> >
> > Cheers,
>
> Close enough: "The true writing"!
As it happens, as a preteen interested in history, I believed some time it was
indeed called _Sannskrift_ - it seemed a sensible name for a language used in
ancient holy writings! Needless to say, being dyslectic helped.

                                                          Andreas

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