I recall a short story (I forgot the title. It's the first story, I
believe, in the collection *Fantastische vertellingen*) by the Dutch
author Ferdinand Bordewijk, in which a student in Leiden complains
that in Sanskrit class they have to read Kālidāsa, whose name
according to this student is a misnomer: he ought to be called
'Kan-die-dazen' (translatable as 'man, can he blab a lot of
nonsense').
Robert Zydenbos
On 3/24/20 4:49 PM, Tieken, H.J.H. via
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