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An official language of India although it is now used only for religious purposes
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sanskrit
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sanskrit \San"skrit\, a. Of or pertaining to Sanskrit; written in Sanskrit; as, a Sanskrit dictionary or inscription.
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Sanskrit (; Sanskrit: or , originally , "refined speech") is the primary sacred language of Hinduism , a philosophical language in Hinduism , Jainism , Buddhism and Sikhism , and a literary language that was in use as a lingua franca in Greater India . ...
Usage examples of sanskrit.
The name given to this roughly delineated Terra Australis is Patalie Regio, meaning, according to the Vicomte de Santarem, who derives it from the Sanskrit, the nether region, i.
Sanskrit, Pali, Awadhi commonspeak, Bangla, Oriya, Tamil, Kannad, Marathi, Malayali, and a half-dozen other dialects of the subcontinent.
When they fell silent, unable to name a tree, the seer supplied its name, reeling off a succession of alternatives in Sanskrit, Pali, Awadhi commonspeak, Bangla, Oriya, Tamil, Kannad, Marathi, Malayali, and a half-dozen other dialects of the subcontinent.
Fragments of Sanskrit and Bengali interrupted clear passages and crawled up the margins.
Its earlier pronunciation as the Indians recorded it is reflected in the Sanskrit Bhota, and the name of the modern state of Bhutan is related to the same word.
Sanskrit, meaning he awakes, is enlightened, and thus Bodhisattva, and Buddha.
It is written in a script known as Gupta Brahmi, but composed of Sanskrit verses and prose.
Until the invention of printing, Sanskrit was written in regional alphabets but with the adoption of type the north Indian alphabet known as Devanagari became standardised.
In addition to his exhaustive acquaintance with Sanskrit, and the southern India vernaculars, he had some knowledge of Tibetan, Arabic, Kawi, Javanese and Coptic.
The word nerve now applied to them is from the Latin nervus, which is traced back to the Sanskrit snavara, meaning a string or cord.
Because Sanskrit was frozen, writers who lived a full millennium after Panini were forced to replace innovation with ingenuity.
Even more curiously, although the gap between Sanskrit and Prakrit grew larger as the centuries passed, Sanskrit did not suffer.
Even in his original time, the special jargon and odd acronyms had been signaling the arrival of new protolanguages, emerging forms as alien as Sanskrit or classical Greek.
Labels in Sanskrit, Vietnamese, Chinese, English, crumbling beside baggage labels and exotic postage stamps and scrawled descriptions of contents, wajang goleh, he read.
Trying to overcome his disturbance, he grasped at the voice that he was losing, the life that was leaving him, the memory that was turning into a petrified polyp, and he spoke to her about the priestly destiny of Sanskrit, the scientific possibility of seeing the future showing through in time as one sees what is written on the back of a sheet of paper through the light, the necessity of deciphering the predictions so that they would not defeat themselves, and the Centuries of Nostradamus and the destruction of Cantabria predicted by Saint Milanus.