Hinduism and Sanskrit literature were his lifelong interests.

In Buddhist literature the Sanskrit term cakra ( Pali cakka ) is used in a different sense of " circle ," referring to a Buddhist conception of the Cycle of Rebirth consisting of six states in which beings may be reborn.

In technical literature, e. g., in Sanskrit grammar, dharma also means " property " and dharmin means " property-bearer ".

* Clay Sanskrit Library publishes classical Indian literature, including the Mahabharata and Ramayana, with facing-page text and translation.

The resemblances which he detected between Sanskrit and the Western cognate tongues existed in the syntax, the combination of words in the sentence and the various devices which only actual reading of the literature could disclose, far more than in the mere vocabulary.

As a comparative grammarian he was much more than as a Sanskrit scholar ,” and yet “ it is surely much that he made the grammar, formerly a maze of Indian subtilty, as simple and attractive as that of Greek or Latin, introduced the study of the easier works of Sanskrit literature and trained ( personally or by his books ) pupils who could advance far higher, invade even the most intricate parts of the literature and make the Vedas intelligible.

The Indian Ocean is known as Ratnakara in the ancient Sanskrit literature.

Sanskrit literature and Chinese literature flourished in the Age.

The libraries often employed translators and copyists in large numbers, in order to render into Arabic the bulk of the available Persian, Greek, Roman and Sanskrit non-fiction and the classics of literature.

Several stories within the Mahabharata took on separate identities of their own in Classical Sanskrit literature.

The corpus of Sanskrit literature encompasses a rich tradition of poetry and drama as well as scientific, technical, philosophical and dharma texts.

* Tanittamil Iyakkam, a movement of linguistic purism in Tamil literature attempting to emulate the " unadulterated Tamil language " of the Sangam period, avoiding Sanskrit, Persian and English loanwords

It is also the only Indian language other than Sanskrit to be considered to be ancient and authentically original in its form and rich literature It has been described as " the only language of contemporary India which is recognizably continuous with a classical past " and having " one of the richest literatures in the world ".

* December 6 – Haraprasad Shastri, Indian academic, Sanskrit scholar, archivist and historian of Bengali literature ( d. 1931 )

The Kama Sutra (, ) is an ancient Indian Hindu text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by Vātsyāyana.

Naturally questions were asked who the sage was, and the pundits replied that Vatsya was the author of the standard work on love in Sanskrit literature, that no Sanscrit library was complete without his work, and that it was most difficult now to obtain in its entire state.

Category: Sanskrit literature

The collection makes use of devices found in Sanskrit literature such as frame stories and animal fables.

The concept of the frame story dates back to ancient Sanskrit literature, and was introduced into Persian and Arabic literature through the Panchatantra.

An early example of the " story within a story " technique can be found in the One Thousand and One Nights, which can be traced back to earlier Persian and Indian storytelling traditions, most notably the Panchatantra of ancient Sanskrit literature.

Wilfred Cantwell Smith traced the story from a 2nd to 4th century Sanskrit Mahayana Buddhist text, to a Manichee version, which then found its way into Muslim culture as the Arabic Kitab Bilawhar wa-Yudasaf ( Book of Bilawhar and Yudasaf ), which was current in Baghdad in the 8th century.

For instance, Abhijñānashākuntala by the renowned Sanskrit poet Kālidāsa ( c. 400 CE ), believed to have lived in the era of the Gupta dynasty, is based on a story that is the precursor to the Mahabharata.

This story seems to originate in the Panchatantra, a work originally composed in Sanskrit, and was already 1500 years old by the time Boccaccio retold it.

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

The story originates in the Ramayana, a Sanskrit epic from before the time of Christ.

The story originates in the Sanskrit collection of stories called Canthamanchari.

Another form of foreshadowing is the self-fulfilling prophecy, which dates back to the story of Krishna in ancient Sanskrit literature.

The Puranas deal with stories that are old and do not appear ( or fleetingly appear ) in the epics ( Puratana is Sanskrit for " ancient "; the derivative noun purana means " old story " – " history " to be precise ).

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

Each chapter begins with an extract from a legendary version of the story, and extensive quotes, in English, from Indian literature such as the Sanskrit Vedas and the Pali Canon.

Although quite common in older Sanskrit, the aorist is comparatively infrequent in much of classical Sanskrit, occurring, for example, 66 times in the first book of the Rāmāyaṇa, 8 times in the Hitopadeśa, 6 times in the Bhagavad-Gītā, and 6 times in the story of Śakuntalā in the Mahābhārata.

Another story is that the name Udupi came from the combination of the Sanskrit words Udu and Pa, which mean " stars " and " lord.

The name Kathak is derived from the Sanskrit word katha meaning story, and katthaka in Sanskrit means he who tells a story, or to do with stories.

One example of this is the ancient Sanskrit story of Krishna, where King Kamsa is told in a prophecy that a child of his sister Devaki would kill him.

The word is derived from Sanskrit word Ramakhyan ( Ram + Akhyan ) where Akhyan means a long story or epic.

Kamba Ramayana is not a translation of the Sanskrit epic by Valmiki, but an original retelling of the story of the God Rama.

The story of Karna is told in the Mahābhārata, one of the Sanskrit epics from the Indian subcontinent.

The story of Shanzi 睒子 ( Syama in Sanskrit ), is an example of this.

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.

Sanskrit priyā " beloved ") and was known among many northern European cultures with slight name variations over time: e. g. Friggja in Sweden, Frīg ( genitive Frīge ) in Old English, and Fricka in Richard Wagner's operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.

* Karma, or " deed " in Sanskrit, causes the cycle of cause and effect, or Saṃsāra, in Indian religions

Samsāra or Sangsāra ( Sanskrit: स ं स ा र ) ( in Tibetan called " khorwa "), literally meaning " continuous flow ", is the repeating cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth ( reincarnation ) within Hinduism, Buddhism, Bön, Jainism, Yoga and Sikhism.

In Indian religions moksha ( Sanskrit: ; liberation ) or mukti ( Sanskrit: ; release — both from the root " to let loose, let go ") is the final extrication of the soul or consciousness ( purusha ) from samsara and the bringing to an end of all the suffering involved in being subject to the cycle of repeated death and rebirth ( reincarnation ).

For example, the term moksha, which in Sanskrit refers to liberation from the cycle of sorrow, is given as the original name for a creature of depravity and evil called a Raver.

Hence, these three are related to, but distinct from, the prajñāpāramitā that denotes a particular cycle of discourse in the Buddhist literature, that which relates to the doctrinal field ( Sanskrit: kṣetra ) of the second turning of the Dharmachakra.

The case of Maharaja (" Great Raja ", great King and Prince, in Sanskrit and Hindi ) on the Indian subcontinent, originally reserved for the regional hegemon such as the Gupta, is a striking example how such a lofty style of this or an alternative model can get caught in a cycle of devalution by " title inflation " as ever more, mostly less powerful, rulers adopt the style.

The Seven Wise Masters ( also called The Seven Sages or The Seven Sages of Rome ) is a cycle of stories of Sanskrit, Persian or Hebrew origins.

* wheel, whorl, cyclone, cycle, circle and chakra ( Germanic twice, Greek, Greek via Latin, Latin via French, and Sanskrit )