This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies is the leading interdisciplinary journal on Asia, Africa and the Near ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Indo-Iranian Journal (IIJ), founded in 1957, is a peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the ancient and medieval languages and ...

THE study of poetic metres is called prosody. Prosody is known as arooz or ilm-i-arooz, not only in Urdu but in Arabic and Persian as well. Other prosodic terms such as behr (metre), rukn (feet of a ...

The Sanskrit Dictionary project at the Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute, in the works since 1948, is a massive compendium of more than 20 lakh vocables. The dictionary project is ...

BAITAL is a Sanskrit word and is also used in Urdu, though not commonly these days. Baital means ghost, demon, sprite or fiend. Some seniors among our readers might recall a story named ‘Agya Baital’.

A Sanskrit grammatical problem which has perplexed scholars since the 5th Century BC has been solved by a University of Cambridge PhD student. Rishi Rajpopat, 27, decoded a rule taught by Panini, a ...