(Hinduism) an ancient language of India (the language of the Vedas and of Hinduism); an official language of India although it is now used only for religious purposes
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Sanskrit is so integrated in many SEA languages its no longer considered foreign.
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Sanskrit plays were very popular and were staged in ancient times all over India.
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Sanskrit and French are the most common third languages taught in Indian schools.
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Malwa was the centre of sanskrit literature during and after the Gupta period.
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Sanskrit, by contrast, preserves a large number of athematic, consonant-stem verbs.
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Sanskrit and Telugu alphabets are similar and exhibit one-one correspondence.
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Why do you not learn some sanskrit before you come to discussions like this?
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Sanskrit has had a profound impact on the languages and literature of India.
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Sanskrit has had a deep and lasting impact on the vocabulary of the Javanese language.
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- (Hinduism) an ancient language of India (the language of the Vedas and of Hinduism); an official language of India although it is now used only for religious purposes
- To dream of Sanskrit, denotes that you will estrange yourself from friends in order to investigate hidden subjects, taking up those occupying the minds of cultured and progressive thinkers.
- An ancient literary language of India. Early yoga literature and terms were written in Sanskrit.
- The extinct language of ancient India. Spoken between fourteenth and fifth centuries BCE. Still used today in classic literature.
- An ancient Indo-European language still used in Indian literature, philosophy and scripture
- Our main reference page on the Sanskrit language.
- Ancient Indo-Aryan language from which many modern languages are derived. A relative of ancient Persian, Greek and Latin.
- The sacred and classical Indian language. (p. 190)
- The ancient Indian language in which Mahayana scriptures were recorded.
