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This is a revised version of the first Professor P. D. Gune Memorial Lecture delivered at Poona on July 12, 1981, under the joint auspices of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute and the Centre of Advanced Study in Sanskrit of the Poona University. There were three such lectures, which will together be published separately under the title ‘The Science of Ritual’. The lectures were given during the International Seminar on Pānini, held during July 9–14, 1981, under the auspices of the Centre of Advanced Study in Sanskrit. The written text has substantially benefitted from other lectures, remarks, discussions, and comments during the same seminar, especially by Professors S. D. Joshi and P. Kiparsky. I am grateful to them, and especially to Professor R. N. Dandekar, for inviting me to deliver these lectures.

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Staal, F. Ritual, grammar, and the origins of science in India. J Indian Philos 10, 3–35 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00200181

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