The constructed name Dvaravati was confirmed by a Sanskrit plate inscription containing the name “ Dvaravati ”.

The inscription on the slab has 20 lines, 30 shlokas ( verses ), and is composed in Sanskrit written in the Nagari script.

Some scholars have identified the conqueror Hùntián of the Book of Liang with the Brahmin Kauṇḍinya who married a nāga ( snake ) princess named Somā, as set forth in a Sanskrit inscription found at My Son and dated AD 658 ( see below ).

The story of Kaundinya is also set forth briefly in the Sanskrit inscription C. 96 of the Cham king Prakasadharma found at Mỹ Sơn.

The Sanskrit inscription ( K. 5 ) of Tháp Mười ( known as " Pràsàt Prằṃ Lovêṅ " in Khmer ), which is now on display in the Museum of Vietnamese History in Ho Chi Minh City, refers to a Prince Guṇavarman, younger son ( nṛpasunu — bālo pi ) of a king Ja who was “ the moon of the Kauṇḍinya line (... kauṇḍiyaśaśaśinā ...) and chief “ of a realm wrested from the mud ”.

The earliest engraved record of the Khmer during the 6th century AD was found in the north east of Thailand such as in Surin where the Sanskrit inscription in the stone has also been found.

The pillar bears an inscription in Sanskrit in Brahmi script dating 4th century AD, which indicates that the pillar was set up as a Vishnudhvaja, standard of god, on the hill known as Vishnupada in memory of a mighty king named Chandra, believed to Chandragupta II.

The Raja Rajeswari, Vallabha Ganapathi, Sree Chakra, Banalingam, Saligramam and other idols, given to Shri Muthuswamy Dikshithar by his guru Chidambaranatha Yogi is in the family with the eldest son Muthuswamy along with the veena ( with the upturned Yaali Mukha ) with the Sanskrit inscription " Sri Ram " said to have been given to Dikshithar by Goddess Sarasvati, when he bathed in the river Ganges, as indication of his having attained Mantra Siddhi.

Sanskrit texts, as well as an inscription unearthed by archeologists, call it Gokanna.

Early works of the school do not appear to use the label Śaivasiddhānta: one the earliest datable attestations of the label is probably that in the eighth-century Sanskrit inscription carved around the central shrine in the Kailasanatha temple in Kancheepuram.

The Sanskrit inscription ( not dated ) of Vãl Kantél, Stung Treng province ( K. 359 ) names a king Vīravarman as father of a princess whose name was not mentioned, married to a Brahmin called Somaśarman and sister of a certain Bhavavarman.

The Iron Pillar in the courtyard bears an inscription in Sanskrit in Brahmi script of the 4th century AD.

The pillar bears a Sanskrit inscription in Brahmi script, which states that it was erected as a standard in honour of Lord Vishnu.

Although not perfectly clear, the inscription seems to be referring to Heliodoros as a Bhagavata ( Sanskrit: “ One Devoted to Bhagavan ( Lord )”), meaning " a devotee ".

The entire body of the inscription is in an old form of Prakrit ; but a short benediction in Sanskrit is added at its close, with the king's name on the seal in its Sanskrit form.

The 150 CE Junagadh inscription written in Sanskrit credits Rudradaman for supporting cultural arts, Sanskrit literature and also for repairing the dam on Lake Sudarshana that was built by the Mauryans.

The inscription shown is in Sanskrit ( above ) and Persian.

The use of Sanskrit usually signify the official nature and religious significance of the event written on the inscription.

In this Sanskrit inscription, King Kaushikiputra Dhanadeva mentions about setting a ketana ( flag-staff ) in memory of his father, Phalgudeva.

Gradually, the rulers of the western part of Indonesia adopted Indian cultural and political models e. g. proof of such Indian influence on Indonesian art in the 5th century, i. e. an Amaravati Buddha statue found in southern Sulawesi and a Sanskrit inscription found east of Jakarta.

In Kedah an inscription in Sanskrit dated 1086 CE has been found.

The copperplate inscription written Sanskrit and in Ganda character dated 3rd jyaistha of 1136 samval which represents 1079 A. D.

The text is in Sanskrit, written in Grantha alphabet of the Pallava dynasty, dated to the mid-5th century A. D., and tells of a donation in honor of Vishnu by a Prince Gunavarman of the Kaundinya lineage.

Koneswaram's traditional history and legends were compiled into the Tamil corpus Tevaram and the Sanskrit treatises Dakshina Kailasa Puranam — Sthala Puranam of Koneswaram, written in 1380 by Jeyaveera Cinkaiariyan, and the Dakshina Kailasa Manmiam — three chapters of the Skanda Puranam of unknown antiquity — manuscripts of which have been discovered and dated from the 5th — 7th century.

The Vedas, Sanskrit literature dated to about 2000 BC referred to it as Anya-Vapa which meant " that was raised by others ".

It has been dated to either the final centuries BCE or the early centuries CE, at the transition between Vedic meter and the classical meter of the Sanskrit epics.

French Jesuit Villotte, who lived in Azerbaijan in late 1600s, wrote this Indian temple was revered by Hindus ; the temple has numerous carvings in Sanskrit or Punjabi, dated to be between 1500 and 1745 AD.

Sanskrit birch bark manuscripts, using Brāhmī script, have been dated to the first few centuries CE.

They are dated to approximately the 5th to 6th Century AD, and were written in Buddhist Sanskrit using Śāradā script.

According to the Kalasan inscription, dated 778 CE and written in the Pranagari script in Sanskrit, the Kalasan temple was erected by the will of Guru Sang Raja Sailendravamçatilaka ( the Jewel of the Sailendra family ), who persuaded Panangkaran ( Sanjaya's successor ) to construct a holy building for the goddess ( boddhisattvadevi ) Tara and build a vihara ( monastery ) for Buddhist monks from the Sailendra realm.

Poetry on stone at the Meguti temple ( Aihole inscription ) dated 634 CE, in Sanskrit language and old Kannada script

It is dated 634 CE and is written in Sanskrit language and old Kannada script.

According to a Kalasan inscription dated 778 AD, written in Sanskrit using Pranagari script, the temple was erected by the will of Guru Sang Raja Sailendravamçatilaka ( the Jewel of Sailendra family ) that succeed to persuade Maharaja Tejapurnapana Panangkaran ( in other part of the inscription also called as Kariyana Panangkaran ) to construct a holy building for the goddess ( boddhisattvadevi ) Tara and also build a vihara ( monastery ) for buddhist monks from Sailendra family's realm.

Amara Simhan ( c. AD 375 ) was a Sanskrit grammarian and poet, of whose personal history hardly anything is known.

Pampinea's clever tale originates in either the Panchatantra, a Sanskrit story from the 4th century AD, or The Histories of Herodotus.

The earliest form of it is found in the Sanskrit Śukasaptati ( The Parrot's Seventy Tales ), which was compiled in the 6th century AD.

The medical works of both Sushruta and Charak originally in Sanskrit were translated into Arabic language during the Abbasid Caliphate in 750 AD.

The Bodhisattvacharyāvatāra or Bodhicaryāvatāra, sometimes translated into English as A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, is a famous Mahāyāna Buddhist text written c. 700 AD in Sanskrit verse by Shantideva ( Śāntideva ), a Buddhist monk at Nālandā Monastic University in India.

Classical Sanskrit literature flowers in the Maurya and Gupta periods, roughly spanning the 2nd century BC to the 8th century AD.

Probably the earliest non-Western dramaturgic work is the Indian Sanskrit " Natayasatra " (' The Art of Theatre ') written about 100 AD, which describes the elements, forms and narrative elements of the ten major types of ancient Indian dance dramas.

Venkatamakhin invented and authored the formula for the melakarta system of raga classification in his Sanskrit work, the Chaturdandi Prakasika ( 1660 AD ).

Along with other Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, Assamese evolved circa 1000 – 1200 AD from the Magadhi Prakrit, which developed from a dialect or group of dialects that were close to, but different from, Vedic and Classical Sanskrit. Its sister languages include Bengali, Chittagonian, Sylheti ( Cilôţi ), Oriya, the Bihari languages. It is written with the Assamese script.

At least by the 1st century AD, Valmiki's reputation as the father of Sanskrit classical poetry seems to have been legendary.

Originated in Indian before 788 AD, Advaita Vedanta is widely considered the most influential and most dominant sub-school of the Vedānta ( literally, end or the goal of the Vedas, Sanskrit ) school of Hindu philosophy.

* The Sanskrit classic Manasollasa written in 1051 AD by Western Chalukya king Somesvara III describes dosai.

Sanskrit alphabet by the Japanese Buddhist saint Kobo Daishi ( 774-835 AD ).

Literature in Sanskrit begins with the Vedas, and continues with the Sanskrit Epics of Iron Age India ; the golden age of Classical Sanskrit literature dates to late Antiquity ( roughly the 3rd to 8th centuries AD ).

2nd century AD, literally " Scripture of Dance ," though it sometimes translated as " Science of Theatre '") is a keystone work in Sanskrit literature on the subject of stagecraft.

Bhasa and Kālidāsa are major early authors of the first centuries AD, Kālidāsa qualifying easily as the greatest poet and playwright in Sanskrit He deals primarily with famous Hindu legends and themes ; three famous plays by Kālidāsa are Vikramōrvaśīyam ( Vikrama and Urvashi ), Mālavikāgnimitram ( Malavika and Agnimitra ), and the play that he is most known for: Abhijñānaśākuntalam ( The Recognition of Shakuntala ).

Ayurveda can be defined as the system of medicine described in the great medical encyclopedias associated with the names Caraka, Suśruta, and Bheḷa, compiled and re-edited over several centuries from about 200 BC to about AD 500 and written in Sanskrit.

Others wish to push the date still later: Dominic Goodall, for instance, appears to suggest, on the grounds of religious notions that appear in the work with Sanskrit labels for which a certain historical development can be traced in other datable works, that the Tirumantiram cannot be placed before the eleventh or twelfth century AD.

The work is written in Classical Sanskrit and its development dates to a period broadly contemporary with the classical age of ancient Greece and Rome, c. 400 BC – 400 AD.