because almost a quarter of words in the Vedic texts composed in the 2nd-millennium BCE appear just once.

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The study of Nirukta can be traced to the last centuries of the 2nd-millennium BCE Brahmanas layer of the Vedic texts. The most celebrated scholar of this field is {{IAST, who wrote the Nighantu (book of glossary), the first book on this field. His text is also referred simply as Nirukta. The study of Nirukta has been closely

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