Sanskrit meaning

săn'skrĭt'
An ancient Indic language that is the language of Hinduism and the Vedas and is the classical literary language of India.
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Any written form of Old Indic, including Vedic.
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Of or written in Sanskrit.
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A classical language of India ("Indian Latin"), a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, and one of the 23 official languages of India. Member of Indo-Iranian and thus Indo-European language family.
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The classical Old Indic literary language, as cultivated from the 4th cent. b.c. onward: because of the antiquity of its written expression and the detailed descriptive analysis it received in the Sutras of the Hindu grammarian Pānini (end of the 4th cent. b.c.), Sanskrit was used as a major source of data in the origin and development of Indo-European comparative linguistics.
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Origin of sanskrit

  • Sanskrit saṃskṛtam from neuter of saṃskṛta- perfected, refined sam together sem-1 in Indo-European roots karoti he makes kwer- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Sanskrit संस्कृत (saṃ-ská¹›tá, “perfected, prepared, constructed, refined").
    From Wiktionary

Sanskrit Sentence Examples

  • The Benares college, including a firstgrade and a Sanskrit college, was opened in 1791, but its fine buildings date from 1852.

  • Bhagalpur formed a part of the ancient Sanskrit kingdom of Anga.

  • The Gandharvas of Sanskrit poetry are also fairies.

  • Tonmi introduced the modified Sanskritic " writing in thirty characters " (already detailed under Language and six of which do not exist in Sanskrit) in two styles - the " thick letters " or " letters with heads " (u-ch'en), now commonly used in printed books, and the half-cursive " cornered letters," so called from their less regular heads.

  • The town is said to possess many Sanskrit libraries.

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