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³⁷ Review of Damsteegt, EHS, in *Lingua* 48, 1979, 293. A similar position was maintained by Senart in his important but by now largely outdated discussion in *Les Inscriptions de Piyadassi* of "Mixed Sanskrit," which he saw as essentially an orthographic phenomenon with no real linguistic basis: "Mixed Sanskrit is only a manner of writing Prâkrit, consisting in going as near as possible to the orthography and the etymological forms known to the religious language [i.e., Sanskrit]" (*IA* 21, 1892, 275).