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INDOLOGICA TAURINENSIA Official Organ of the International Association of Sanskrit Studies
Founded and directed by OSCAR BOTTO
Editors Colette Caillat, Emeritus Professor of Indology, Université de Paris III. Siegfried Lienhard, Emeritus Professor of Indology, University of Stockholm. Irma Piovano, Supervisor of the scientific activities and cultural relations of the
CESMEO, Torino. Saverio Sani, Director of the Deparment of Linguistics, Università degli Studi di Pisa.
Scientific Committee
President Oscar Botto, Torino, Italy
Members Pierre-Silvain Filliozat, Paris, France
Minoru Hara, Tokyo, Japan Oskar von Hinüber, Freiburg, Germany
Romano Lazzeroni, Pisa, Italy Manfred Mayrhofer, Wien, Austria
Irma Piovano, Torino, Italy
R.K. Sharma, Delhi, India Jaroslav Vacek, Praha, Czech Rep.
Akira Yuyama, Tokyo, Japan
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E-mail distr@herder.it - www.herder.it ISSN 1023-3881 Autorizzazione del Tribunale di Torino N. 4703 - 21/7/1994