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Bhatti
Indian poet
Xuanzang
Xuanzang
Buddhist monk
Ram Mohan Roy
Ram Mohan Roy
Indian religious leader
Faxian
Chinese Buddhist monk
Winthrop Sargeant
American music critic
Kumarajiva
Buddhist scholar
Charles Rockwell Lanman
American scholar
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Grassmann, Hermann Günther
Hermann Günther Grassmann
German mathematician
Sir William Jones
British orientalist and jurist
Hermann Collitz
American linguist
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
Eugène Burnouf
French Orientalist
William Dwight Whitney
American linguist
Otto von Böhtlingk
Russian linguist
Wackernagel, Jacob
Jacob Wackernagel
Swiss linguist
Berthold Delbrück
Berthold Delbrück
German linguist

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