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As Frits Staal wrote in 1982 in “What is happening in Classical Indology?”, “Some chocolates can only be sold if they are wrapped up in gold- speckled papers. Books about the Rigveda will only be read through the medium of some fashionable theory”.

— Frits Staal

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‘Western civilization […] produced a science of language only belatedly, after being influenced by the Sanskrit grammar of Panini.’ (Staal 1988: 48)

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