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‘The phrase “narrowing religious outlook” comes from’ : Jawaharlal Nehru. 1946. The Discovery of India. New York: The John Day Company, 568 ff.

‘The Powers of Language’ : originally inspired by Renou 1955, ‘Les pouvoirs de la parole dans le Ṛgveda’ which emphasized vāc manasā, discussed throughout this book. Related notions include pratibhā, ‘intuition’ (Gonda 1963b and 1963a in general), guru, ‘teacher’ (Gonda 1965a), upaniṣad (p. 158), etc.

‘Where the sages fashioned language with their thought … filtering it like parched grain’ : Rigveda circle 9 deals with filtering the Soma liquid.

‘The Rigveda links language not only to thought but also to vision’ : #182 ‘interiorization’ and Gonda 1963a.

‘According to Bhartṛhari, a philosopher as well as a linguist, there is no knowledge without language’ : Bhate 1994, Bhate and Bronkhorst 1994, Houben 1995.—‘One is Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), whose numerous works’: Humboldt 1836, 1988.—‘The other is Roman Jakobson (1896–1982), who was equally prolific’: #183, 281.

‘The viśva is easy or is it viśvam?’ Kunhan Raja, C. 1956. Asya Vāmasya Hymn (The Riddle of the Universe). Ṛgveda 1.164. Madras: Ganesh and Co. follows Sāyaṇa but translates: ‘that does not move.’

‘These are not later than 1.164 which maybe assigned to the tenth century BCE’ : Witzel 1989: 250 and 1997: 264–5.—‘Another term is anirvacanīya, ‘which cannot be expressed,’ said of the world’: put in a wider context by Bhattacharya 2001. Verhagen 1997 explains how Tibetan grammarians, having studied Sanskrit grammar for several centuries, speculated on how the ineffable should be pronounced.

‘Some are upāṃśu, “articulated (within the mouth) but inaudible” ’ : Brereton 1988; Bhagwat 2004.—‘As for rites, some are performed without mantras, that is tūṣṇīm’: Renou 1949, Renou and Silburn 1954, Coomaraswamy 1937, 2000.—‘I conclude that our ordinary, natural language is unable to express all that is true’: On Whitehead’s equivocation: #300.

More on the implications of the use of notations and artificial languages in the next chapter , p. 346.

‘The Ultimate Theory, the theory of everything if there will be one’ : Dyson 1985:21, ‘the equations come first.’ Also discussed in Dyson 1992, Chapters 24, 31, and Dyson 2007. Similar in Hawking 1996: 232: ‘Even if there is only one unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations.’

‘There is hope is we are willing to let languages expand’ : Whitehead, Alfred North: ‘Philosophy is an attempt to express the infinity of the universe in terms of the limitations of language’ in: Schilpp, Paul Arthur. 1941, 1951. New York: Tudor Publishing Company; Library of Living Philosophers. Autobiographical Notes: 14. Whitehead was almost omniscient and, of course, familiar with artificial languages such as the language of algebra but he was neither a linguist, nor a great writer and does not seem to have realized, unlike Pāṇini, Patañjali and Proust, that natural language itself is infinite too. #273, 298.