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It's been two years!

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May 27, 2024
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We began our exploration of Indian literature two years ago with this small snippet of a fact:

The first Sanskrit text to be translated into Latin was the invocation "Om srii naraina nama" — by St Francis Xavier, in a letter dated 15 January 1544! This was probably the first original Sanskrit text known in Europe. In the same letter, Francis Xavier says …

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