Sanskrit: Sandhi, National Library at Kolkata romanization, Vedic Sanskrit grammar, Substratum in Vedic Sanskrit, Sanskrit literature, Devanagari transliteration, Hunterian transliteration, Sanskrit nouns, Sanskrit verbs

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 56. Chapters: Sandhi, National Library at Kolkata romanization, Vedic Sanskrit grammar, Substratum in Vedic Sanskrit, Sanskrit literature, Devanagari transliteration, Hunterian transliteration, Sanskrit nouns, Sanskrit verbs, List of educational institutions which have Sanskrit phrases as their mottos, International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, Sanskrit prosody, Sanskrit in the West, Vedic meter, Sanskrit pronouns and determiners, Mahakavya, Sanskrit compounds, List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Sanskrit, Sanskritisation, Anu¿¿ubh, Tadbhava, ITRANS, Nirukta, Sanskrit revival, SADT, Shloka, Vedic accent, Indo-Aryan loanwords in Tamil, Samskrita Bharati, Dvandva, Apabhräsa, Kala, Manipravalam, Termination of spoken Sanskrit, Nighantu, Theodor Goldstücker, Theodor Aufrecht, Mattur, Chandas, Tatpurusa, Mojikyo, Tatsama, Tristubh, Injunctive mood, Se¿ and ani¿ roots, SanskritOCR, Devi and Vrkis feminines, Harvard-Kyoto, Benedictive, Altindische Grammatik, V¿ddhi, Abhidhana, Sanskritism. Excerpt: Sanskrit ( , originally , "refined speech"), is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism. It is also used in some of the religious texts in Jainism and Buddhism. Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand. In western classical linguistics, Sanskrit occupies a pre-eminent position along with Greek and Latin in Indo-European studies. Sanskrit originated as the spoken language of the Indo-Aryan peoples of c. 1500 BCE, and was codified as a literary language by the composition of the Rigveda, the earliest religious text of the historical Vedic religion (the ancestor of Hinduism). It continued to be the predominant literary language in the Indian subcontinent for the next 3,000 years or so, only replaced by Hindi-Urdu within the last few hundred years. The position of Sanskrit in the cultures of Greater India is akin to that of Latin and Greek in Europe and Arabic in the Islamic world, and Sanskrit has significantly influenced most modern languages of the Indian subcontinent. The corpus of Sanskrit literature encompasses a rich tradition of poetry and drama as well as scientific, technical, philosophical and Hindu religious texts. Sanskrit continues to be widely used as a ceremonial language in Hindu religious rituals in the forms of hymns and mantras. Spoken Sanskrit is still in use in a few traditional institutions in India and there are many attempts at revival. The earliest recorded form of Sanskrit is known as Vedic Sanskrit, one of the Old Indo-Aryan languages and the language in which the primary texts of the historical Vedic religion (the ancestor of Hinduism) were recorded. The oldest and most archaic stage of the language is preserved in the Rigveda, the oldest core of which dates back to around 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