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When a Westerner reads a Sanskrit term in an English-language book, it is bad enough if its translation is not given in brackets, or in a footnote, or in a glossary at the end. But even if the translation is given, the word presents him with a phonetic problem. When the whole book has a half-hundred such terms he becomes bored or irritated.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 1 : Meetings of East and West > # 162