On the whole ... the language of the first nine Mandalas must be regarded as homogeneous, inspite of traces of previous dialectal differences... With… - Batakrishna Ghosh

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On the whole ... the language of the first nine Mandalas must be regarded as homogeneous, inspite of traces of previous dialectal differences... With the tenth Mandala it is a different story. The language here has definitely changed.

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About Batakrishna Ghosh

Batakrishna Ghosh (1905-1950) was an Indian linguist, who specialised in Indo-European linguistics. He wrote a number of books and articles on Sanskrit and Indo-European linguistics. He translated Wilhelm Geiger's German book on the Pali language into English, published by the University of Calcutta.

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B.K. Ghosh informs us: " D asa princes like Sambara, Dhuni, Chumuri, Pipru and Varchin have been actuallymentioned by the Rigvedic poets, but it is significant that, as a rule , Indra himself has been made to combat them on his own initiative and not in course of rendering routine assistance to Aryan chiefs."

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