Dear Tony, >I need to know the correct term for a sundial in as many languages as >possible but to ensure that I get it right, particularly the spelling!! >:-) could I please ask for contributions - although limited to western >style characters for no other reason than my wordprocessor can only >handle such. > What an endless source of surprise and delight this list is! My Hindi dictionaries give 'dhupghadi' (literally 'sun clock'). That is a crude and not very accurate transliteration. A more accurate, but typographically more obtuse rendering would be: dhuupghaDii (using capitalisation to indicate retroflexion...)
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