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Old 10-24-2007, 01:36 PM   #367 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Emiliee View Post
This might sound stupid, but why does some Sankrit have the "line" over each word and some don't? What's the difference?

Here's without the line:
http://www.frithjof-schuon.com/sanskrit.jpg
The picture you posted also has letters with horizontal line above them. Only that the indivisual letters are separated. The line is put over the words to group the letters of the word & is a characteristic of languages using Devanagari script i.e. Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi & Nepali
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