Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Indic. No longer in scientific use.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to or derived from Sanskrit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Sanskrit.
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- proper noun archaic
Sanskrit
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Examples
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Vedic, yogic, Sanskritic, ancient Indian and Eastern were the pseudonyms of choice to source key elements of Hindu teachings: bhakti, karma and moksha, even the Bhagavad Gita, one of Hinduism's most revered scriptures.
Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: The Origins and Ownership of Yoga Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2010
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She's envisioning something like a galactic explosion outward from a Sanskritic big bang of three or maybe five thousand years ago.
Christopher Lydon: Namita Gokhale: the revolution will be written! (AUDIO) 2010
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Vedic, yogic, Sanskritic, ancient Indian and Eastern were the pseudonyms of choice to source key elements of Hindu teachings: bhakti, karma and moksha, even the Bhagavad Gita, one of Hinduism's most revered scriptures.
Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: The Origins And Ownership Of Yoga Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2010
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Vedic, yogic, Sanskritic, ancient Indian and Eastern were the pseudonyms of choice to source key elements of Hindu teachings: bhakti, karma and moksha, even the Bhagavad Gita, one of Hinduism's most revered scriptures.
Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: The Origins And Ownership Of Yoga Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2010
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Vedic, yogic, Sanskritic, ancient Indian and Eastern were the pseudonyms of choice to source key elements of Hindu teachings: bhakti, karma and moksha, even the Bhagavad Gita, one of Hinduism's most revered scriptures.
Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: The Origins and Ownership of Yoga Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2010
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For example, a condom campaign in India in the 1970s involved renaming the product Nirodh from a Sanskritic word meaning “protection”.
Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 1995
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Zemblan, like many Sanskritic languages, is well suited to charades, hence Roth's interest.
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The Balijas were proud of their Sudra status, in a world previously dominated by a classical Sanskritic varna scheme that insisted that kings had to be Kshatriya (two castes higher than Sudras).
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Angkor Wat was devoted to Vishnu; this may reveal an awareness of and sensitivity to the larger Sanskritic world, since this sect was prominent at the time in India and Java.
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The language of the Weddas is regarded as a base descendant of the most complete and first known form of Aryan speech, the Sanskrit; and the Weddas are set down as descendants of the Sanskritic Aryans, who conquered India.
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880 Various
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