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Sanskrit meaning
A classical Indo-European language of South Asia, which is the liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism.
Synonyms of Sanskrit
Example sentences (20)
The Madras Sanskrit College is managed by the Sri V. Krishnaswami Iyer Sanskrit Education Trust, affiliated to the University of Madras, and supported by CSU under the Adarsha Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya scheme.
She taught me Sanskrit in Class VII, IX and X, and I was so attracted to Sanskrit that I decided I would do something in Sanskrit.
However, from a comparative point of view, Sanskrit (especially Vedic Sanskrit ) is closer to the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European language than the Prakrits, so Sanskrit belongs to a linguistically earlier stage of history.
Sanskrit Pali and Sanskrit are very closely related and the common characteristics of Pali and Sanskrit were always easily recognized by those in India who were familiar with both.
Words adopted from Sanskrit When words are adopted from Sanskrit, their endings are usually changed to conform to Malayalam norms: Nouns * Masculine Sanskrit nouns with a word stem ending in a short /a/ take the ending /an/ in the nominative singular.
BHU Muslim Sanskrit teacher row: Fresh protests in favour of Firoz Khan Banaras Hindu University is witnessing multiple protests over the appointment of a Muslim professor in the Sanskrit department.
If the scientists at NASA pronounce Sanskrit as the most scientific language, why do you have a problem?” he asked, challenging his critics to cite any language which is more scientific than Sanskrit.
With the aim to articulate that Sanskrit is neither “the property of the RSS” nor is it “attached to Hindutva”, the Delhi government will begin 70 Sanskrit centres in each of Delhi’s Assembly segments by April.
Indian based Biju Gangadharan, also known as the "father of Sanskrit rock", introduced rock music with Sanskrit Lyrics by many young musicians from late musicians.
Malayalam has also borrowed the Sanskrit diphthongs of /äu/ (represented in Malayalam as ഔ main, au) and /ai/ (represented in Malayalam as ഐ main, ai), although these mostly occur only in Sanskrit loanwords.
Many of the modern Sanskrit writings are qualitatively of such high order that they can easily be treated at par with the best of classical Sanskrit works, and they can also be judged in contrast to the contemporary literature in other languages.
The end of this cycle is called "Mukti" (Sanskrit: मुक्ति) and staying finally with supreme God forever; is " Moksha " (Sanskrit: मोक्ष) or salvation.
The existence of a Sanskrit word regularly corresponding to a Pali word is not always secure evidence of the Pali etymology, since, in some cases, artificial Sanskrit words were created by back-formation from Prakrit words.
The introduction was done so that Sanskrit (and loanwords into the Kannada language from the donor language Sanskrit) could be written using the Kannada script.
There have been attempts to "purify" Urdu and Hindi, by purging Urdu of Sanskrit loan words, and Hindi of Persian loan words, and new vocabulary draws primarily from Persian and Arabic for Urdu and from Sanskrit for Hindi.
The Sanskrit word śaiva means "relating to the god Shiva", and this term is the Sanskrit name both for one of the principal sects of Hinduism and for a member of that sect.
The Tocharian alphabet also has letters representing all of the remaining Sanskrit sounds, but these appear only in Sanskrit loanwords and are not thought to have had distinct pronunciations in Tocharian.
Traditionally, many have believed that the Prakrits are older than Sanskrit, and that it was from the Prakrits that Sanskrit was refined.
According to Dr Muckta Karmarkar, Mirza Ghalib is the most quoted poet, followed by couplets in Bengali, Punjabi and Sanskrit.
All that BJP gave for the State was imposition of Hindi and Sanskrit, sidelining of Tamil and 'NEET atrocity', he alleged.