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# Yaska (Yāska)

Author of the Nirukta, the classical treatise on Vedic etymology and exegesis.

## Works (2)

- [Nighantu (Nighaṇṭu)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.nirukta.nighantu) — Sanskrit; 650 BCE; partly digitised
- [Yāska's Nirukta (Nirukta)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.nirukta.yaska) — Sanskrit; 500 BCE

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