Yavanas

[Vidyasankar Sundaresan]

Dear Prof. Karttunen,

These identifications are very puzzling, given Kumarila's date. Or do you
assign a very late date to Kumarila?

Vidyasankar

>KumArila, TantravArttika on MS 1, 3, 6, 10 gives an interesting account of
>foreign languages (including Dravidian). In the list
>pArasIka-barbara-yavana-raumakAdi the languages must be Persian, Turkish
>(?), Arabic (as Yavana is Muslim) and Greek (as spoken by Byzantines as
>Romans).


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