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

Amara seems to have been a Buddhist, and most of his work was destroyed, with the exception of what is the celebrated Amara-Kosha ( Treasury of Amara ), a vocabulary of Sanskrit roots, in three books, and hence sometimes called Trikanda or the " Tripartite ".

The Sanskrit text was printed at Calcutta in 1831.

Ajmer ( Sanskrit Ajayameru ) was founded in the late 7th century A. D. by Ajayraj singh Chauhan.

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,

Borax was known from the deserts of western Tibet, where it received the name of tincal, derived from the Sanskrit.

The English word Dravidian was first employed by Robert Caldwell in his book of comparative Dravidian grammar based on the usage of the Sanskrit word in the work Tantravārttika by ( Zvelebil 1990 p. xx ).

Sanskrit grammatical case was analyzed extensively.

This has led to such a close connection between Devanāgarī and Sanskrit that Devanāgarī is now widely thought to be the Sanskrit script ; however, before the colonial period there was no standard script for Sanskrit, which was written in whatever script was familiar to the local populace.

In the Sanskrit oral tradition, there was much emphasis on how long ( L ) syllables mix with the short ( S ), and counting the different patterns of L and S within a given fixed length results in the Fibonacci numbers ; the number of patterns that are m short syllables long is the Fibonacci number F < sub > m + 1 </ sub >.

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.

In grateful recognition of that fact, on the fiftieth anniversary ( May 16, 1866 ) of the date of Windischmann's preface to that work, a fund called Die Bopp-Stiftung, for the promotion of the study of Sanskrit and comparative grammar, was established at Berlin, to which liberal contributions were made by his numerous pupils and admirers in all parts of the globe.

Martineau also wrote: “ Bopp's Sanskrit studies and Sanskrit publications are the solid foundations upon which his system of comparative grammar was erected, and without which that could not have been perfect.

For that purpose, far more than a mere dictionary knowledge of Sanskrit was required.

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 name stems from Serendip, an old name for Sri Lanka ( aka Ceylon ), from Arabic Sarandib, which was adopted from Tamil " Seren deevu " or originally from Sanskrit Suvarnadweepa or golden island ( some trace the etymology to Simhaladvipa which literally translates to " Dwelling-Place-of-Lions Island ").

In addition to the standard characters, six characters taken from the Grantha script, which was used in the Tamil region to write Sanskrit, are sometimes used to represent sounds not native to Tamil, that is, words adopted from Sanskrit, Prakrit and other languages.

Through Hariphunchai, the Tais of Chiang Saen adopted Theravada Buddhism and Sanskrit royal names.

Traditionally Hinduism has adopted an ancient Sanskrit phrase Vasudha eva kutumbakam,

In England over time the word ‘ Cash ’ was adopted from Sanskrit कर ् ष karsa, a weight of gold or silver but akin to Old Persian karsha, unit of weight ( 83. 30 grams ).

Since the beginning of the 20th century, northeastern Thailand has been officially known as Isan, a term adopted from Sanskrit Ishan, meaning in a “ north east direction .” The term " Isan " was derived from Isanapura, the capital of the Chenla kingdom.

However, the Indian National anthem which was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India, is in Hindi, as per official Indian government documents, but the words remain unaltered from the original Bengali Tatsama, a highly Sanskritized form of Bengali that has Sanskrit words in common with Hindi.

The Sanskrit language was widely used ; the laws of Manu, the Indian legal code, were adopted ; and an alphabet based on Indian writing systems was introduced.

" Siddha Yoga " (" perfect " or " perfected " yoga ) is a Sanskrit term adopted by Swami Muktananda to describe the path of self-realization that he embarked on under the guidance of his spiritual teacher, the Indian saint Bhagawan Nityananda.

The Burmese language, unlike other Southeast Asian languages ( e. g. Thai, Khmer ), adopted words primarily from Pāli rather than from Sanskrit.

Persian has sometimes been termed an adopted classical language of the South Asia alongside Sanskrit due to its role in South Asian tradition.

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.

Southeast Asian rulers frequently adopted lengthy Sanskrit titles and founded cities, such as Ayutthaya in Thailand, named after those in the Indian epics.

Based on what Krishnamurti states referring to a scholarly paper published in the International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, the Sanskrit word itself is later than since the dates for the forms with-r-are centuries later than the dates for the forms without-r-(, -, damela-etc.

Sanskrit (, originally, " refined speech "), is a historical Indo-Aryan language, the primary liturgical language of Hinduism and a literary and scholarly language in Jainism and Buddhism.

Palembang was a center for scholarly learning, and it was there the Chinese Buddhist pilgrim I Ching studied Sanskrit in 671 CE before departing for India.

In India, the mora was an acknowledged phenomenon well over two millennia ago in ancient Indian linguistics schools studying the dominant scholarly and religious lingua franca of Sanskrit.

The only extant local writings from the period of Funan are paleographic Pallava Grantha inscriptions in Sanskrit, a scholarly language used by learned and ruling elites throughout South and Southeast Asia.

Similarly, in Hindu culture, traditionally religious or scholarly works were written in Sanskrit long after its use as a spoken language.

Similarly, in Hindu culture, traditionally religious or scholarly works were written in Sanskrit ( long after its use as a spoken language ) or in Tamil in Tamil country.

The author of parts IV-VII was not conversant with scholarly Sanskrit ; these treatises are written, in a mixed type of language.

The Mauryan period saw an early flowering of classical Sanskrit Sutra and Shastra literature and the scholarly exposition of the " circum-Vedic " fields of the Vedanga.

Linguistics began with the analysis of Sanskrit and Tamil ; today it looks at individual languages and language in general.

Pre-Angkorian Khmer, the language after its divergence from Proto-Mon – Khmer until the ninth century, is only known from words and phrases in Sanskrit texts of the era.

Trade with India commenced well before 500 BCE ( before the widespread use of Sanskrit as a language in India ).

When applied to Sanskrit, however, it added a great deal of complexity to the script, due to the large variety of clusters in this language ( up to five consonants, e. g. rtsny ).

The first account by a western European to mention the ancient language Sanskrit came from Filippo Sassetti ( born in Florence in 1540 ), a merchant who traveled to the Indian subcontinent.

A soul is called a ' victor ' ( in Sanskrit / Pali language, Jina ) because one has achieved liberation by one's own efforts.

The origins of this word lie in the Old Javanese and thus ultimately in the Sanskrit language.

A bhikkhu ( the term in the Pali language ) or Bhikshu ( in Sanskrit ), first ordains as a Samanera ( novice ).

in Persian " nav " ( ship ) probably from shenav or ashenav ( swim ) from avesta ( old Iranian language ) " sna " in Sanskrit " sna " ( The word " naval " came from Latin navalis, " pertaining to ship "; cf.

Similarities between Sanskrit and European languages were first noted in the early 16th century and led to speculation of a common ancestor language from which all these descended.

In particular the Shiva Sutras, an auxiliary text to the Ashtadhyayi, introduces what can be considered a list of the phonemes of the Sanskrit language, with a notational system for them that is used throughout the main text, which deals with matters of morphology, syntax and semantics.

The Pali language ( the liturgical Prakrit language of Theravada Buddhism ) tends to be treated as a special exception from the variants of the Ardhamagadhi language, as Classical Sanskrit grammars do not consider it as a Prakrit per se, presumably for sectarian rather than linguistic reasons.

While Prakrits were originally seen as " lower " forms of language, the influence they had on Sanskrit, allowing it to be more easily used by the common people, as well as " Sankritization " of Prakrits gave Prakrits progressively higher cultural cachet.

Maharashtri was often used for poetry and as such, diverged from proper Sanskrit grammar mainly to fit the language to the meter of different styles of poetry.

Sanskrit is the ancient language of India, showing how old the usage of this spice is in this region.

The pre-Classical form of Sanskrit is known as Vedic Sanskrit, with the language of the Rigveda being the oldest and most archaic stage preserved, its oldest core dating back to as early as 1500 BCE.

This qualifies Rigvedic Sanskrit as one of the oldest attestations of any Indo-Iranian language, and one of the earliest attested members of the Indo-European language family, the family which includes English and most European languages.

Sanskrit continues to be widely used as a ceremonial language in Hindu religious rituals and Buddhist practice in the forms of hymns and mantras.