Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An ancient Indic language that is the language of Hinduism and the Vedas and is the classical literary language of India.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The ancient and sacred language of India, being that in which most of the vast literature of that country is written, from the oldest parts of the Vedas (supposed to date from about 2000-1500
b. c. ) downward. - Of or pertaining to Sanskrit: as, early Sanskrit idioms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The ancient language of the Hindoos, long since obsolete in vernacular use, but preserved to the present day as the literary and sacred dialect of India. It is nearly allied to the Persian, and to the principal languages of Europe, classical and modern, and by its more perfect preservation of the roots and forms of the primitive language from which they are all descended, is a most important assistance in determining their history and relations. Cf.
Prakrit , andVeda . - adjective Of or pertaining to Sanskrit; written in Sanskrit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A
classical language of India ("Indian Latin"), aliturgical language ofHinduism ,Buddhism ,Sikhism ,Jainism , and one of the 23 official languages ofIndia . Member ofIndo-Iranian and thusIndo-European language family.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (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
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now in Sanskrit we would have about 50 words to play with here that have subtle but distinctly different shades of meaning.
Another Look 2009
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It began with aarti ( "toward virtue" in Sanskrit), the Hindu sunset worship, at the very small Nandeshwari Temple on the grounds of the hotel.
Perry Garfinkel: A Hind-Jew in India Perry Garfinkel 2010
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Written in Sanskrit, “A Tale of the Parrot” is an Indian tale where a talking animal relates various lessons or stories, much as Shahrazad did to her husband.
Book Review: In Sleeping Beauty’s Bed IV « Colleen Anderson 2010
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He has also written a number of books in Sanskrit and Oriya.
J B Patnaik appointed Chancellor of Rashtriya Sanskrit University, Tirupati 2008
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Does the physical description of a scholar translating a text in Sanskrit into Finnish capture that entire activity?
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Does the physical description of a scholar translating a text in Sanskrit into Finnish capture that entire activity?
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There is a section for ebooks, but there is only one, a glossary of Buddhist terms, written in Sanskrit and Pali,
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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There is a section for ebooks, but there is only one, a glossary of Buddhist terms, written in Sanskrit and Pali,
Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Digital Library and Museum of Buddhist Studies 2007
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Csoma de Körős, codified the canonical literature embedded in Sanskrit and Tibetan and transmitted manuscripts and texts to centers of oriental scholarship in Calcutta, London, and
Enlightenment East and West: An Introduction to Romanticism and Buddhism 2007
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This one, as far as I know, is only known as Bel or Bilwa (in Sanskrit).
chained_bear commented on the word Sanskrit
"In 1890, the British officer Lieutenant Hamilton Bower traveled to Kucha, an oasis on the northern route around the Taklamakan, to investigate a murder. While there, he bought an ancient manuscript consisting of fifty-one leaves of birch bark with writing on them and announced the discovery to the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal. Within a few years scholars identified it as a medical text from the fifth century CE, making it the oldest known Sanskrit manuscript in the world by almost one thousand years."
--Valerie Hansen, The Silk Road: A New History (Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2012), 10
December 30, 2016