Sanskrit definition

sănskrĭt
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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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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(loosely) Any written form of Old Indic, including Vedic.
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Of or written in Sanskrit.
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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.

  • He encouraged the study of Sanskrit, and furthered schemes for the enlightenment and amelioration of the Hindus.

  • In 1862 he endowed the chair of Sanskrit in the university of Edinburgh, and was the main agent in founding the Shaw fellowship in moral philosophy.

  • At Pagar Rujung are several stones with inscriptions in Sanskrit and Menangkabo Malay.

  • Sanskrit words occur in the various languages spoken in the island; and the Ficus religiose, the sacred tree of the Hindu, is also the sacred tree of the Battas.

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