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The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c13.s3.t6.11

The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c13.s3.t6.11

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c13.s3.t6.11

There is a word *gālidānam* in verse 38. One can easily suspect it as a colloquial Bengali term for reproach or abusive language. The word is not unknown in colloquial modern Hindi. But one wonders as to how it could find a place in a Sanskrit work of the early twelfth century in a Deccani (Maratha) atmosphere.²⁵