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sciences,19 but except the Dravyaparikṣā no other text on this subject has been discovered so far.
Just as English is used today in India for the sake of pan-Indian or even worldwide communication, the Hindu and Jaina scientists wrote in the pan Indian medium of Sanskrit until it was replaced by English. Thakkura Pheru, therefore, remains the only versatile scholar to have attempted to popularise science.
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19 See Varnaka-Samuccaya, ed. B. J. Sandesera, Pt. 1, Baroda 1956, p. 48.
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