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Can anyone translate a bit of Sanskrit?

I'm not certain that it's Sanskrit.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Not Sanskrit. Probably Nepali, inasmuch as it doesn't work in Hindi. Could be Marathi, I guess. It reads something like:

    hecaa.m duhakhaa.m gr[?]aghatta.m.

    The middle ligature could be a miswriting of du.hkha, the Skt word for suffering. But you can never have a k and an h together in sanskrit. Its not even possible to write in transliteration--the above actually would give you a different letter because there is a k and a kh.

    Also, the first ligature could also be something like hyeaam, and there are no possible double vowels in Sanskrit.

    This looks like its probably something that someone mistyped.

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