Sanskrit

Definitions

A classical Indo-European language of South Asia, which is the liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism.

uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure⟳; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have⟳ been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine⟳ them all three, without believing them to have⟳ sprung from some common source, which, perhaps no longer exists... - Sir William Jones, 2 February, 1786, at the Asiatick Society.”

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