Guest guest Posted August 17, 2006 Report Share Posted August 17, 2006 that's because the quote is wrong "astrictive" should be "instructive" "India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, grandmother of legend, and great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only." this is an apparently very common error on many "india" based websites hopefully it gets corrected here best... todd caldecott On 17-Aug-06, at 8:54 AM, ayurveda wrote: > Re: Independence day wishes > > This may be a little off-topic semantically, but I'm curious about the > Mark Twain quote - "astrictive" is potentially a negative comment. > My own > experiencein working on the Vedas revealed very much the reverse > > India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human > speech, the > > mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand > mother > > of tradition. Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the > > history of man are treasured up in India only!" -- Mark Twain > > Caldecott todd (AT) toddcaldecott (DOT) com www.toddcaldecott.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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