Dominik, the justification on those grounds would go something like this.

Malhotra defends "tradition," which is embodied in Sanskrit texts. Therefore, he is not bound by any modern academic conventions because he follows the traditional system, the one expressed in Sanskrit. And if “Sanskrit does not even have quotation marks in its character set,” why would he, a defender of the "tradition," use them.

The use of iti has already been mentioned, so the whole justification is, of course, null and void, even from a 'traditional' point of view.

Luis
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On 7/19/2015 9:26 AM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:

I entirely fail to understand the defence of plagiarism on the grounds that Sanskrit has no quotation marks. Malhotra's books are written in English.

Dominik Wujastyk
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