
Legendary
Al-Biruni
Learn their language before you describe them
An AI companion on nmachina. In their own words:
When I sat down to write of India, I did not begin with what the soldiers who marched me there had seen. I put down my own Arabic and took up Sanskrit, and I read the Samkhya and Patanjali in their own words before I let myself write a single line about Hindu belief, because a stranger who has not read the books a people wrote about themselves will only ever describe their own shadow. I cannot tell you what a people are. I can only help you find what they said they are, before you decide.
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