After further delays, the Tang court granted Kūkai a place in the Ximingsi temple where his study of Chinese Buddhism began in earnest as well as studies of Sanskrit with the Gandharan pandit Prajñā ( 734-810?

Wilkins moved to Varanasi, where he studied Sanskrit under Kalinatha, a Brahmin pandit.

Japanese monk, Kukai studied Sanskrit there under the tutelage of Gandharan pandit Prajñā ( 734-810?

In 1841, Vidyasagar took the job of a Sanskrit pandit ( professor ) at Fort William College in Kolkata ( Calcutta ).

:"(...) do not be surprised if without knowledge of Sanskrit I am going to tell you many things taken from books in that language ; you will know that my Agha Danismand Khan paid for the presence of one of the most famous pandits in India, who before had been pensioned by Dara Shikoh, the oldest son of Shah Jahan, and that this pandit, apart from attracting the most learned scientists to our circle, was at my side for over three years.

A candidate for becoming Bernier's " pandit " probably would have come from the circle around Hindu scholars such as Jagannatha Panditaraja, who still was at work under Shah Jahan, or Kavindracharya, who taught Dara Sikhoh Sanskrit.

It is traditional for performers who have reached a distinguished level of achievement to be awarded titles of respect ; Hindus are usually referred to as pandit and Muslims as ustad.

In Indonesian language and many regional languages of Indonesia, derivative form of pandit, pendeta, is used to refer priest or cleric, in Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism.

The word is also used synonymously with the word pandit that also means a priest.

There is a story that he defeated one conquering pandit while he himself was still only a student.

When I became weary of explaining to my Agha the latest discoveries of William Harvey and Pequet in anatomy, and to reason with him on the philosophy of Gassendi and Descartes, which I translated into Persian ( because that is what I did during five or six years ) it was up to our pandit to argue.

* Panda or pandit, a Hindu scholar

Birbal Dhar the kashmiri pandit pleaded with Maharaja Ranjit Singh to save Kashmiri Pandits from Pathans when Kashmir governor Muhammad Azim heard of this he ordered his men to abduct Dhar's women who were abducted and sent to Kabul hearing this Dhar committed suicide however furious by this act of Durrani, Ranjit Singh ordered his most able general Diwan Chand to mount the expedition of Kashmir, he was assisted by Raja Gulab Singh Jamwal a Hindu dogra rajput of Jammu.

The term pundit or pandit was used in the second half of the 19th century to denote native surveyors who explored regions to the north of India for the British.

This led to Jeeva offering the fee needed for proper education under a Tamil pandit.

Thus she was been killed by the pandit near palwal in haryana

At Khetri, he delivered discourses to the Raja, became acquainted with the pandit Ajjada Adibhatla Narayana Dasu, and studied Mahābhāṣya on sutras of Panini.

* Vinjamuri Venkata Lakshmi Narasimha Rao, was an Indian stage actor, Telugu-Sanskrit pandit.

In both traditions, the Kalachakra and its related commentaries ( sometimes referred to as the Bodhisattvas Corpus ) were returned to India in 966 by an Indian pandit.

Thus he learned proper Tamil from a pandit.

A pandit prophesies that the newly born Mr Biswas " will be a lecher and a spendthrift.

* Mahasthabir Shilvadra ( 529-654 ): a great buddhist monk & pandit, professor & chancellor of Nalanda Bihar.

He left home when still young to become a student of Upadhyar Amar Muni and the tantrik pandit Gopinath Kaviraj.

The latter script was invented by pandit Dr. Lako Bodra.

It seems likely that Narayana was a pandit and preceptor employed in Dhavalachandra ’ s court.

He was taught by scholars like pandit Taranath Tarkatirtha and Kalipada Tarkacharya.

He also interacted with pandit Ananta Kumar Nyayatarkatirtha, Madhusudan Nyayacharya and Visvabandhu Tarkatirtha.

* Cārvāka ( Sanskrit: च ा र ् व ा क ) ( atheist ) philosophy.

The end of this cycle is called " Mukti " ( Sanskrit: म ु क ् त ि) and merging finally with God is " Moksha " ( Sanskrit: म ो क ् ष ) or salvation.

Gautama Buddha or Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha ( Sanskrit: स ि द ् ध ा र ् थ ग ौ तम ब ु द ् ध ; Pali: Siddhattha Gotama ) was a spiritual teacher from the Indian subcontinent,

Its name derives from the Sanskrit word for " wheel " or " turning " ( चक ् र ं, pronounced in Hindi ; Pali: cakka चक ् क, Oriya: ଚକ ୍ ର, Malayalam: ചക ് ര ം, Thai: จ ั กระ, Telugu: చక ్ రo, Tamil: சக ் கரம ், Kannada: ಚಕ ್ ರ, Chinese: 輪 / 轮, pinyin: lún,, Wylie: khor lo ).

From the Atharvaveda and in Classical Sanskrit, the stem is thematic, ( Devanāgarī: धर ् म ), and in Pāli, it takes the form dhamma.

Foundation of the Maurya Empire ( Sanskrit: म ौ र ् य र ा जव ं श, Maurya Rājavanśha ) which was geographically extensive and powerful empire in ancient India, ruled by the Mauryan dynasty from 321 to 185 BC. It was one of the world's largest empires in its time.

The Gupta Empire ( Sanskrit: ग ु प ् त र ा जव ं श, Gupta Rājavanśha ) was an Ancient Indian empire which existed approximately from 320 to 550 CE and covered much of the Indian Subcontinent.

It is generally accepted among East Asian adherents that Guanyin originated as the Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara ( अवल ो क ि त े श ् वर ).

In the Shaivite tradition, the Shri Rudram ( Sanskrit श ् र ि र ु द ् रम ्), to which the Chamakam ( चमकम ्) is added by scriptural tradition, is a Hindu stotra dedicated to Rudra ( an epithet of Shiva ), taken from the Yajurveda ( TS 4. 5, 4. 7 ).

* Sanskrit Mitra ( म ि त ् र ः), found in the Rig Veda.

The name derives from the Sanskrit श ् र ी ल ं क ा śrī ( venerable ) and lankā ( island ), the name of the island in the ancient Indian epics Mahabharata and the Ramayana.

itself derived from Sanskrit शर ् कर ा śarkarā.

The word itself is from Sanskrit " Samudra ", ( सम ु द ् र ), meaning " gathering together of waters, sea or ocean ".

Sangha ( Pali: सन ् घ ; Sanskrit: स ं घ ; Wylie: ' dus sde ) is a word in Pali and Sanskrit meaning " association ", " assembly ," " company " or " community " and most commonly refers in Buddhism to the monastic community of ordained Buddhist monks or nuns.

The term " Sikh " has its origin in Sanskrit term श ि ष ् य (), meaning disciple, student, or श ि क ् ष () (" instruction ").

Turmeric is commonly called ' Halodhi ' in Assamese, Pasupu in Telugu, Kaha ( කහ ) in Sinhala, Manjal ( மஞ ் சள ் ) in Tamil literally meaning yellow color, Arisina ( ಅರ ಿ ಸ ಿ ಣ ) in Kannada, Haridra ( हर ि द ् र ) in Sanskrit, Haldi ( حلدی ) in Urdu and Haldar or Haldi ( हल ् द ी) in Hindi, Haladi ( ହଳଦ ୀ) in Oriya, ' Halud ( হল ু দ )' in Bengali Besar ( ब ॆ स ा र ) in Nepalese.