Tobacco (rolled in cryptography)

Wed Sep 10 08:31:34 UTC 1997

At 18:52 +0200 9/09/97, Vidyasankar Sundaresan wrote:
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>Didn't you know that Argentina gets its name from Arjuna, the Pandava?
>
	Despite the funny mail of S.Krishna, that's true!
	Argentina is a Spanish world coming from Latin argentum (silver)
and linked to Greek arguros (id.) and Sanskrit Arjuna. They are derived
with various suffixes from an eurindian root *arg- (shining white).
	Regards,
Dominique

Dominique THILLAUD
Universite' de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France