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In an interview granted to Europa Press, Oscar Pujol explained that this dictionary has been twelve years in Publisher's Desk Article In Other
the making and that "it began as a 'hobby' and finished being a profession." In 1980, Pujol made a trip to Languages
India for tourism. Indian culture "made a very deep impression." On that trip, he read the English In-Depth Issues
translation of the Bhagavad Gita and from that moment he wanted to learn the original language of the Press Releases
work. He began to learn Sanskrit on his own but soon he enrolled at Banaras Hindu University to complete The Story of Hinduism Today
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Pujol said that there has been "a crisis" in the Sanskrit studies because an update of the methods was
necessary, and that now there is a "new way to understand" this language "going to its roots without
comparing it to other Indo-European languages."

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