Remote loans words from Sanskrit to Spanish: the trade of precious stones in Ancient India
The study of the names of precious stones carries with it the investigation of the trade between Ancient India, Greece and Rome, and with this activity, the cultural transformations. Terms like emerald, diamond and ruby have their origin in Sanskrit, because it is in this language that was given the...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2019 |
| Country: | Costa Rica |
| Institution: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repository: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/36077 |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/kanina/article/view/36077 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | commerce emerald diamond ruby Ancient India comercio esmeralda diamante rubí India Antigua |
| Summary: | The study of the names of precious stones carries with it the investigation of the trade between Ancient India, Greece and Rome, and with this activity, the cultural transformations. Terms like emerald, diamond and ruby have their origin in Sanskrit, because it is in this language that was given the earliest and clearest documents that classified these gems, where their composers, where the Brahmins who had the control. Key Words: commerce, emerald, diamond, ruby, Ancient India. |
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