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Some of the most Indian-sounding words in astrology, like hora and kendra, arrived from Greek nearly two thousand years ago.
Everyone knows that words went out of Sanskrit into other tongues. Sugar. Ginger. Orange. Jungle. Loot. The list is well known, and Indians are right to be proud of it.
Fewer people know that a few words came the other way. Some of them sit at the very heart of Indian astrology. They sound as Indian as anything could.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.