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[Transcriber’s Note:

This e-text includes characters that will only display in UTF-8
(Unicode) text readers:

  ḳ, ḥ, ṭ, ḍ, ṇ, ṃ, ṛ (letters with dot under: except ḳ and ḥ, these
    are used only in Sanskrit words)
  ṅ (n with dot over, in Sanskrit words)
  ă, ĕ, ŭ (vowel with breve or “short” sign: only ĕ is common)
  ā (a with macron or “long” sign)

If any of these characters do not display properly--in particular,
if the diacritic does not appear directly above the letter--or if the
apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage,
make sure your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set
to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. As a
last resort, use the Latin-1 version of the text.

In the section on Sanskrit origins, anusvara was printed as m̃ (m with
tilde). It has been changed in this e-text to 