| Rasa can mean mood or feeling in Sanskritic languages, and mudra can be meaningful hand gesture. |
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| Only male priests can make this offering in the Sanskritic temple context but women have retained this important right in the Dravidian, non-Sanskritic rituals. |
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| The core of Nepal is perceived as the Hill territory and its traditional cultural ethos is conditioned by Sanskritic Hinduism. |
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| The phonological disparity might well be due to Sanskritic back-formation from a Prakritic form, or simply inconsistent orthography. |
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| Throughout this paper, I use the vernacular transliteration mash rather than the Sanskritic form molcsha, as this more accurately reflects my participants' usage. |
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