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This is a list of English words of Sanskrit origin. Most of these words were not directly borrowed from Sanskrit. The meaning of some words have changed slightly after being borrowed. Both languages belong to the Indo-European language family and have numerous cognate terms; some examples are "mortal", "mother", "father" and the names of the ...
Sanskrit inherits from Proto-Indo-European the feature of regular in-word, vowel variations known in the context of the parent language as ablaut or more generally apophony. This feature, which can be seen in the English forms sing , sang , sung , and song , themselves a direct continuation of the PIE ablaut, is fundamental [ g ] in Sanskrit ...
Scholars commonly use IAST in publications that cite textual material in Sanskrit, Pāḷi and other classical Indian languages. IAST is also used for major e-text repositories such as SARIT, Muktabodha, GRETIL, and sanskritdocuments.org.
Sanskrit was a spoken language in the educated and the elite classes, but it was also a language that must have been understood in a wider circle of society because the widely popular folk epics and stories such as the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Bhagavata Purana, the Panchatantra and many other texts are all in the Sanskrit language. [120]
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A 17th-century birch bark manuscript of ancient Panini Sutra, a treatise on grammar, [11] found in Kashmir. The Sanskrit word Sūtra (Sanskrit: सूत्र, Pali: sutta, Ardha Magadhi: sūya) means "string, thread". [1] [2] The root of the word is siv, "that which sews and holds things together".
The Sanskrit Language (2001 ed.). Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN 81-208-1767-2. Whitney, William Dwight (January 2008). Sanskrit Grammar (2000 ed.). Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN 978-81-208-0620-7. W. D. Whitney, The Roots, Verb-Forms and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language (A Supplement to His Sanskrit Grammar) Coulson, Michael. Teach Yourself ...
The Aṣṭādhyāyī (Sanskrit: [ɐʂ.ʈaːˈdʰ.jaː.jiː], Devanagari: अष्टाध्यायी) is a grammar text that describes a form of the Sanskrit ...