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savoyard | 2 years ago

> Even the name of the island itself derives from Sanskrit: dvipa-sakhadara means the “Island of Bliss.”

Foreign Sailors on Socotra: The Inscriptions and Drawings from the Cave Hoq (a book mentioned in the article) refers to this as an “academic myth” and suggests that the island’s name is of South Arabian origin.

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