Ancient India's Contribtuion to Modern Civilization

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At 09:12 14.6.1997, Dominique.Thillaud wrote:


>
>        Incidentally, India is not strictly a *foreign* word: the ancient
>greek words 'India', 'indikos' come probably from sindhu or apparented
>forms.
>

more exactly from the iranian form of the word (hinduS).  *s > h is a
regular change in the iranian branch of Indo-Iranian.

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