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Sanskrit literature is a broad term for all literature composed in Sanskrit.This includes texts composed in the earliest attested descendant of the Proto-Indo-Aryan language known as Vedic Sanskrit, texts in Classical Sanskrit as well as some mixed and non-standard forms of Sanskrit.
Sanskrit epigraphy, the study of ancient inscriptions in Sanskrit, offers insight into the linguistic, cultural, and historical evolution of South Asia and its neighbors. Early inscriptions , such as those from the 1st century BCE in Ayodhya and Hathibada , are written in Brahmi script and reflect the transition to classical Sanskrit .
A handlist of Sanskrit and Prakrit Hindu, Buddhist and Jain Manuscripts held by the Wellcome Library, Volume 2, Compiled by Dominik Wujastyk (Includes subjects such as historic Dictionaries, Drama, Erotics, Ethics, Logic, Poetics, Medicine, Philosophy, etc.; for complete 6 set collection see ISBN 0-85484-049-4)
The approximately 3,000 scroll fragments are in Sanskrit or Buddhist Sanskrit, in the Brāhmī script, and date to a period from the 2nd to 8th century CE. [6] The Bower Manuscript is one of the oldest Sanskrit texts on birch bark in the Brāhmī script. It includes several texts covering subjects including a medical treatise and proverbs.
These Vedic documents reflect the dialects of Sanskrit found in the various parts of the northwestern, northern, and eastern Indian subcontinent. [76] [77] According to Michael Witzel, Vedic Sanskrit was a spoken language of the semi-nomadic Aryans.
Smṛti is a Sanskrit word, from the root √smṛ (स्मृ), which means the act of remembering. [8] The word is found in ancient Vaidika literature, such as in section 7.13 of the Chandogya Upanishad. In later and modern scholarly usage, the term refers to tradition, memory, as well as a vast post-Vedic canon of "tradition that is ...
Yuktidipika - a medieval era text that reviews and comments on Samkhyakarika, Sanskrit Original (one of two editions published) Papers. Knut Jacobsen (2006), What similes in Samkhya do: a comparison of the similes in the Samkhya texts in the Mahabharata, the 'Samkhyakarika and the Samkhyasutra, Journal of Indian philosophy, 34(6), pages 587-605
Devi and Deva are Sanskrit terms found in the Vedic literature, such as the Rigveda of the 2nd millennium BCE. [3] Deva is masculine, and the related feminine equivalent is Devi. [4] They mean "heavenly, divine, terrestrial things of high excellence, exalted, shining ones". [5] [6] Etymologically, the cognates of Devi are Latin dea and Greek ...