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India

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Earth

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Greece

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Plato

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Italy

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Jerusalem

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Aristotle

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Moses

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France

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Hermann Jacobi (trans.)

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T. W. Rhys Davids (trans.)

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T. W. Rhys Davids (trans.)

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Philo of Alexandria; F.C. Conybeare (ed.)

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F. Max Müller (trans.)

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Varahamihira

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Hermann Jacobi (trans.)

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T.W. Rhys Davids & H. Oldenberg (trans.)

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George Thibaut (trans.)

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George Thibaut (trans.)

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H. Kern (trans.)

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Maurice Bloomfield (trans.)

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Robert Ernest Hume (trans.)

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W.J. Wilkins

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Kamalakara Bhatta

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Ralph T.H. Griffith

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Nemichandra (trans. Sarat Chandra Ghoshal)

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Prafulla Chandra Ray

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Soyen Shaku (Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, trans.)

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Prafulla Chandra Ray

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Hilko Wiardo Schomerus

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Vihari Lala Mitra

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