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Endnotes, marginalia, appendices, or other annotation may be included where they record significant changes or additions to the original. Such annotation should be clearly marked and separated from the main text; no particular style is enforced. Normalization of sandhi / orthography is done at the discretion of individuals.
Quality
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Rights
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In many countries, a work is out of copyright fifty years after the author’s death. In India, the period is sixty years after the author’s death. Note that the Digital of Library of India claims to have determined that many of its scanned books are free of copyright. See also U Penn’s Online Books Page for further information on digitization copyrights.
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