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  • noun A person versed in Sanskrit.

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Sanskrit +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • The learned Sanskritist, H.H. Wilson, quotes the name Pippilika = ant-gold, given by the people of Little Thibet to the precious dust thrown up in the emmet heaps.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Though Sen, 72, won his 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics and has taught the subject at both Harvard and Cambridge, he could just as convincingly be described as a sociologist, historian, Sanskritist, political analyst and moral philosopher -- for starters -- as his new book makes clear.

    Winning Argument 2007

  • Thus it is worth remarking in passing that Leskien had more reason than his classicist and Sanskritist colleagues to worry about the nature of sound replace - ment; he stands in the Schleicher tradition of East

    LINGUISTICS HENRY M. HOENIGSWALD 1968

  • In his On the Gods of Greece, Italy and India (1784), the greatest early Sanskritist, Sir William Jones, sug - gests the Indians as a new source for Egyptian religion; but he is careful to set Genesis apart from the Vedas, which he places as written after the time of the flood.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas BURTON FELDMAN 1968

  • The white stock divided into the Semitic and Sanskritist branches; the yellow into the Chinese and Seythian branches; while the Finno-Tatar branch belongs to both the white and yellow stocks.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • This Pandit is considered the greatest Sanskritist of modern India and is an absolute enigma to everyone.

    From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan 1861

  • But here the illustrious Sanskritist is very much mistaken.

    From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan 1861

  • A Cheruscan countryman, personally unknown to me, Schütz from Bielefeld, the Sanskritist, has asked, with antique confidence, for a bed for his young daughter, on her way to Liverpool as a governess, which we have promised him with real pleasure.

    Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861

  • But Professor Wilson, the best Sanskritist of the time, did not consider the battle lost.

    From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan 1861

  • The learned Sanskritist, H.H. Wilson, quotes the name Pippilika = ant-gold, given by the people of Little Thibet to the precious dust thrown up in the emmet heaps.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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