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Sanskrit grammatical tradition (vyākaraṇa, one of the six Vedanga disciplines) began in late Vedic India and culminated in the Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini.The oldest attested form of the Proto-Indo-Aryan language as it had evolved in the Indian subcontinent after its introduction with the arrival of the Indo-Aryans is called Vedic.
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 ...
A. Abhidhana; Abhisheka; Acharya; Ādeśa; Adharma; Adṛṣṭa; Adveṣa; Ahimsa; Āhrīkya; Akashvani (word) Akriya; Akshara; Alobha; Amoha; Amrita; Ānanda (Hindu ...
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The name Amarakosha derives from the Sanskrit words amara ("immortal") and kosha ("treasure, casket, pail, collection, dictionary"). According to Arthur Berriedale Keith, this is one of the oldest extant Sanskrit lexicons (kosha). [1] According to Keith, Amarasiṃha, who possibly flourished in the 6th century, " knew the Mahāyāna and used ...
The simple meaning of this name, which would have seemed obvious to his readers, would be "Protector of the Ganas", parsing the name in a straightforward way as gaṇa (group) + nātha (protector). But Bhaskararaya demonstrates his skill in nirukta by parsing it in an unexpected way as the Bahuvrīhi compound gaṇana + atha meaning "the one ...
Upasarga is a term used in Sanskrit grammar for a special class of twenty prepositional particles prefixed to verbs or to action nouns. [1] In Vedic, these prepositions are separable from verbs; in classical Sanskrit the prefixing is obligatory.
A Sanskrit Grammar for Students. Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN 81-246-0094-5. Monier-Williams, Monier. A Sanskrit Dictionary. Oxford Clarendon Press. Rajpopat, Rishi Atul (2021). In Pāṇini We Trust: Discovering the Algorithm for Rule Conflict Resolution in the Aṣṭādhāyī (PDF) (PhD dissertation). University of Cambridge. doi:10.17863/CAM ...