According to some of these sources, the Koh-i-Noor was originally found more than 5000 years ago, and is mentioned in ancient Sanskrit writings under the name Syamantaka.

It is generally believed that the Puranas are the earliest philosophical writings in Indian history, although linguistic works on Sanskrit existed earlier than 1000 BC.

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.

He was also accused of attempting to heavily sanskritize Tamil vocabulary through the inclusion of a large number of Sanskrit words in his writings.

Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit writings emerged after the codification in the 4th century BCE of Classical Sanskrit by the scholar Pāṇini.

Compared to Pāli and Classical Sanskrit, comparatively little study has been made of Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, in part because of the fewer available writings, and in part because of the view of some scholars that BHS is not distinct enough from Sanskrit to comprise a separate linguistic category.

However, in Padmasambhava, Karma Lingpa, Gyurme Dorje, Graham Coleman and Thupten Jinpa ( 2005: p. 480 ), we find the following clarification of the difference between the sense of the Tibetan rangrig and the Sanskrit ' svasaṃvitti ' or ' svasaṃvedana ' in Indian Buddhist epistemology and in particular in the writings of the lauded logicians Dignāga and Dharmakīrti, and their meaning in the Dzogchen teachings — in which the translators render the term by the English expression ' intrinsic awareness ':

These were rare Tibetan works based on old Sanskrit writings ( brought originally from the area of the Buddha's personal teachings in Magadha or Bihar in India ) and he was able to offer them to The Asiatic Society and the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 1838.

The Sutta Pitaka (; or Suttanta Pitaka ; cf Sanskrit ) is the second of the three divisions of the Tipitaka or Pali Canon, the Pali collection of Buddhist writings, the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism.

Carey had begun translating literature and sacred writings from the original Sanskrit into English to make them accessible to his own countryman.

In ancient Sanskrit writings, the Brahmastra (, IAST: Brahmāstra ) was a weapon created by Brahma.

According to ancient Sanskrit writings, the Brahmastra is invoked by a key phrase or invocation that is bestowed upon the user when given this weapon.

His writings were all in Sanskrit.

Other surfaces used for early writing include wax-covered writing boards ( used, as well as clay tablets, by the Assyrians ), sheets or strips of bark from trees ( in Indonesia, Tibet and the Americas ), the thick palm-like leaves of a particular tree, the leaves then punctured with a hole and stacked together like the pages of a book ( these writings in India and South east Asia include Buddhist scriptures and Sanskrit literature ), parchment, made of goatskin that had been soaked and scraped to remove hair, which was used from at least the 2nd century BC, vellum, made from calfskin, and wax tablets which could be wiped clean to provide a fresh surface ( in Roman times ).

In his autobiography I Me Mine, Harrison writes that the song was inspired by a letter from Juan Mascaró, a Sanskrit scholar at Cambridge University, who sent him a copy of his book Lamps of Fire ( a wide-ranging anthology of religious writings, including some from the Tao Te Ching ) and asked him if "... might it not be interesting to put into your music a few words of Tao, for example number 48, page 66 of the book.

But there is something that makes this litterateur's similies so unique that Sanskrit experts compare Banabhatta's writings to new age photography.

His writings include devotional works on deities and Acharyas, treatises on Vishishtadvaita, commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, secret doctrines of Vaishnavism, original Tamil poems, epic poems and allegorical dramas in Sanskrit, dialectical works such as Satadushani directed against rival religious schools, treatises on daily life and several other miscellaneous treatises.

Nakamura was an expert on Sanskrit and Pali, and among his many writings are commentaries on Buddhist scriptures.

With his writings, he established that Sanskrit, rather than Prakrit, would be the language of Jain study.

All the same, he was categorical in saying that it is difficult to find an English equivalent of the word “ Dharma .” His output in the form of writings across the three languages of English, Sanskrit and Marathi spans nearly 15, 000 pages.

But the modern Kafirs, especially the Siyah-Posh Kafirs ( Kamoz / Camoje, Kamtoz ) etc are considered to be modern representatives of the ancient Kambojas Kafirs of Hindu Kush and the Kambojas, this shows that the Aspasioi ( Aspas ), who were the western branch of the Assakenoi ( Aśvakas ) of classical writings, represented a section of the Sanskrit Kambojas.

The Hindi alphabet must represent both Sanskrit and modern vocabulary, and so has been expanded to 58 with the khutma letters ( letters with a dot added ) to represent sounds from Persian and English.

The two words may be derived from the same Indo-European form * ṇ-mṛ-to-: immortal ( n-: negative prefix equivalent to the prefix a-in both Greek and Sanskrit ; mṛ: zero grade of * mer-: to die ; and-to-: adjectival suffix ).

Sanskrit nouns in this case often refer to a subject " out of " which or " from " whom something ( an action, an object ) has arisen or occurred — e. g., patram vṛkṣāt patati " the leaf falls from the tree ".

The word is derived from the Sanskrit root hims – to strike ; himsa is injury or harm, a-himsa is the opposite of this, i. e. non harming or nonviolence.

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.

This thesis is supported by the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, explaining that the Turko-Mongol name Timur underwent a similar evolution, from the Sanskrit word cimara (" iron ") via a modified version * čimr to the final Turkicized version timür, with-ür replacing-r due to the Turkish vowel harmony ( hence babr → babür ).

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.

Examples of cognates in Indo-European languages are the words night ( English ), nuit ( French ), Nacht ( German ), nacht ( Dutch ), nag ( Afrikaans ), nicht ( Scots ), natt ( Swedish, Norwegian ), nat ( Danish ), nátt ( Faroese ), nótt ( Icelandic ), noc ( Czech, Slovak, Polish ), ночь, noch ( Russian ), ноќ, noć ( Macedonian ), нощ, nosht ( Bulgarian ), ніч, nich ( Ukrainian ), ноч, noch / noč ( Belarusian ), noč ( Slovene ), noć ( Serbo-Croatian ), νύξ, nyx ( Ancient Greek, νύχτα / nyhta in Modern Greek ), nox ( Latin ), nakt-( Sanskrit ), natë ( Albanian ), noche ( Spanish ), nos ( Welsh ), nueche ( Asturian ), noite ( Portuguese and Galician ), notte ( Italian ), nit ( Catalan ), noapte ( Romanian ), nakts ( Latvian ) and naktis ( Lithuanian ), all meaning " night " and derived from the Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ), " night ".

Another Indo-European example is star ( English ), str-( Sanskrit ), tara ( Hindi-Urdu ), étoile ( French ), ἀστήρ ( astēr ) ( Greek or ἀστέρι / ἄστρο, asteri / astro in Modern Greek ), stella ( Italian ), aster ( Latin ) stea ( Romanian and Venetian ), stairno ( Gothic ), astl ( Armenian ), Stern ( German ), ster ( Dutch and Afrikaans ), starn ( Scots ), stjerne ( Norwegian and Danish ), stjarna ( Icelandic ), stjärna ( Swedish ), stjørna ( Faroese ), setāre ( Persian ), stoorei ( Pashto ), seren ( Welsh ), steren ( Cornish ), estel ( Catalan ), estrella Spanish, estrella Asturian and Leonese, estrela ( Portuguese and Galician ) and estêre or stêrk ( Kurdish ), from the PIE, " star ".

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 ).

Besides the advantages offered by such a plan, in setting immediately before the eyes of the student the final results of the investigation in a more concrete form, and thereby rendering easier his insight into the nature of particular Indo-European languages, there is, I think, another of no less importance gained by it, namely that it shows the baselessness of the assumption that the non-Indian Indo-European languages were derived from Old-Indian ( Sanskrit ).

It is a derivation from Proto-Indo-Iranian root * dhar-(" to fasten, to support, to hold "), in turn reflecting Proto-Indo-European root * dʰer-(" to hold "), which in Sanskrit is reflected as class-1 root √ dhṛ.

Classical Sanskrit word dharmas would formally match with Latin o-stem firmus < * Proto-Indo-European * dʰer-mo-s " holding ", were it not for its historical development from earlier Rigvedic n-stem.

Much of this complexity is required at least on occasion in the modern Indo-Aryan languages, due to the large amount of clusters allowed and especially due to borrowings from Sanskrit.

The word " Emerald " is derived ( via Old French: Esmeraude and Middle English: Emeraude ), from Vulgar Latin: Esmaralda / Esmaraldus, a variant of Latin Smaragdus, which originated in Greek: σμάραγδος ( smaragdos ; " green gem "); its original source being either the Sanskrit word मरकत marakata meaning " emerald " or the Semitic word baraq ( ב ָּ ר ָ ק ; الب ُ راق ; " lightning " or " shine ") ( cf.

* the Thais as pituphum ( ป ิ ต ุ ภ ู ม ิ), the word is adapted from Sanskrit

200 BCE ), author of Sanskrit ( Hindu ) and Pali ( Buddhist ) animal fables in verse and prose, sometimes derived from Jataka tales.

In the library, Bopp had access not only to the rich collection of Sanskrit manuscripts ( mostly brought from India by Jean François Pons in the early 18th century ) but also to the Sanskrit books which had up to that time been issued from the Calcutta and Serampore presses.

Classical Sanskrit is the standard register as laid out in the grammar of, around the 4th century BCE.

A bandanna or bandana ( from the Sanskrit: बन ् धन bandhana, " to tie ") is a type of large, usually colorful, kerchief, usually worn on the head or around the neck of a person or pet and is not considered to be a hat.

Tracheotomy was described in the Rigveda, a Sanskrit text of ayurvedic medicine written around 2000 BC in ancient India.

The name comes from Avestan Haētumant, literally " dammed, having a dam ", cognate with Sanskrit Setumanta " having a dam ", which referred to the Helmand River and the irrigated areas around it.

The nāga king drinks the sea around the island and confers the name " Kampuchea Thipdei ," which is derived from the Sanskrit ( Kambujādhipati ) and may be translated into English as " the lord of Cambodia.

He learned Sanskrit from a Sanskrit grammar book and a copy of the Vedas in around 1970.

When harvested as microgreens, fenugreek is known as Samudra Methi in Maharashtra, especially in and around Mumbai, where it is often grown near the sea in the sandy tracts, hence the name ( Samudra, which means " ocean " in Sanskrit ).

Within the Rakando 500 Rakan, ( Sanskrit: Arhat ) which were made in Kyoto and later brought to Morioka, rest on a series of 5 rows of shelves that stretch around the room.

The third influence was the traditional folk theatre of India, which became popular from around the 10th century with the decline of Sanskrit theatre.

The Buddhist faith was founded by the teacher Siddhārtha Gautama ( Sanskrit: स ि द ् ध ा र ् थ ग ौ तम ; Pali: Siddhattha Gotama ), known honorifically as the eponymic Buddha, around the 6th or 5th century BCE.

Chinese: 地論宗 ; pinyin di lun zong ) was a Buddhist sect in China, based around Vasubandhu's Sanskrit sutra of the same name ( Chinese 十地經 ; pinyin shi di jing ; ten stages sutra ).

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.

Govinda II, a Rashtrakuta king, conferred the kingdom of North Konkan ( modern districts of Thane, Mumbai and Raigad ) on Kapardin ( Sanskrit: Wearing the kaparda, a peculiar braid or knot of hair-also a term for Hindu god Shiva ) I, founder of the Northern Silhara family, around 800.

Patanjali, a grammarian and commentator on Pāṇini around 150 BC, describes in the Mahābhāsya, the invasion in two examples using the imperfect tense of Sanskrit, denoting a recent event:

Dnyaneshwar expanded the Bhagavad Gita, which consisted of 700 shlokas ( Sanskrit verses ), into around 9999 Marathi verses ( ovis ).

The serpent is a common feature in Ganesha iconography and appears in many forms: around the neck, use as a sacred thread ( Sanskrit: ) wrapped around the stomach as a belt, held in a hand, coiled at the ankles, or as a throne.

The pole star appears not to move but the heavenly bodies revolve around it as though it is a fixed ' point ' ( Sanskrit: bindu ).

As part of the Markandeya Purana, it is one of the Puranas or secondary Hindu scriptures, and was composed in Sanskrit around c. 400-500 CE, with authorship attributed to the sage ( Rishi ) Markandeya.

As a result, agarwood and its essential oil gained great cultural and religious significance in ancient civilizations around the world, being mentioned throughout one of the world's oldest written texts – the Sanskrit Vedas from India.

Dated to around 400 CE, the oldest is written in faulty Sanskrit.

The Zīj, written around 770, was based on a Sanskrit work, thought to be similar to the Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta.

His works are referred by other sanskrit scholars such as Yaska ( around 7th c. BCE ) and Pāṇini ( circa 5th c. BCE ), as well as other Sanskrit grammarians, but his original works are not available today.