Definition of Sanskrit

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Sanskrit
n. ancient Indic language, classical literary language of India

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Sanskrit Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Sanskrit
(n.)
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, and Veda.
  
(a.)
Of or pertaining to Sanskrit; written in Sanskrit; as, a Sanskrit dictionary or inscription.
  

WordNet 2.0
Sanskrit

Noun
1. (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
(synonym) Sanskritic language
(hypernym) Indic, Indo-Aryan
(hyponym) Sindhi
(classification) Hinduism, Hindooism
(class) Darsana

JM Languages
SANSKRIT
Sanskrit is the principal literary language of India.
The language is: Sanskrit


Sanskrit Definition from Social Science Dictionaries & Glossaries

Dream Dictionary
Sanskrit
To dream of Sanskrit, denotes that you will estrange yourself from friends in order to investigate hidden subjects, taking up those occupying the minds of cultured and progressive thinkers.
  


Sanskrit Definition from Religion & Spirituality Dictionaries & Glossaries

Rakefet
Sanskrit
Sanskrit [from Sanskrit sanskrita or samskrita] The ancient sacred language of the Aryans, originally the sacred or secret language of the initiates of the fifth root-race. The Sanskrit language possesses voluminous and valuable works in prose and in verse, some of which, like the Vedas, date back, in the opinion of certain scholars, to the years 30,000 BC or even far beyond. Almost every phase of philosophic thought, expressed and studied in the West, is represented in one form or another in ancient Hindu literature. Besides this, these old Sanskrit writings are replete with recondite subjects dealing with the wondrous potentialities of the human spirit and mind, the building and destruction of worlds and universes, etc.
The Sanskrit language, derives from one of the earliest of the Aryan tongues, a lineal descendant of an Atlantean progenitor.
"In ancient times in India, and in the homeland of the Aryans before they reached India by way of Central Asia, this very early Aryan speech was used not only by the Aryan populace, but in the sanctuaries of the Temples was taken in hand and developed or composed or builded to be a far finer vehicle for expressing abstract religious and philosophic conceptions and thoughts. This tongue thus composed or developed by initiates of the Aryan stock, because of this formative work upon it was finally given the name Sanskrita, signifying an original natural language which had become perfected by initiates for the purpose of expressing far more subtle and profound distinctions than ordinary people would ever find needful.
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Hinduism Glossary for Introduction to Religion
Sanskrit
The language in which the Vedas and other Hindu sacred texts are written. It is an old Indo-European language like Greek and Latin.


Sanskrit Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia
Sanskrit
Sanskrit ( , for short ) is an ancient Indo-European classical language of India, a liturgical language of Hinduism and Buddhism primarily, and utilised occasionally in Jainism. It is one of the 22 official languages of India, and an ancestor of the modern Indo-Aryan languages. It has the same status in Nepal as well.

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