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On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet c3.26

On the Origin of the Indian Brāhma Alphabet c3.26

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c3.26

If it were worth the while, the list of positive mistakes and more than hazardous speculations might be enlarged *ad infinitum* by examples from passages on Indian phonetics, epigraphy, antiquities, Dharma and so forth. Similar instances might also be adduced, where the papers show a weakness in other subjects, *e. g.* in Greek,¹ or collide with the statements of the Greek historians.² But what has been given, will be amply sufficient to convince even others than Sanskritists that a fuller discussion of their contents cannot serve any useful purpose.