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- proper noun The earliest and most
archaic form ofSanskrit , as used in theVedas .
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This early language, Vedic Sanskrit, was used to write the Vedas, sacred to Hindus and Buddhists.ii Many other languages spread powerfully when their native speakers gained military dominance over people who adopted them, either as lingua francas or as new native tongues.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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This early language, Vedic Sanskrit, was used to write the Vedas, sacred to Hindus and Buddhists.ii Many other languages spread powerfully when their native speakers gained military dominance over people who adopted them, either as lingua francas or as new native tongues.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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I have had such students in my room at Oxford, who not only could repeat these hymns, but who repeated them with the proper accents (for the Vedic Sanskrit has accents like Greek), nay, who, when looking through my printed edition of the Rig-Veda, could point out a misprint without the slightest hesitation.
India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge Alexander Wilder 1861
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To me it seems that this very expression, god of the sky, god of the cloud, is so entire an anachronism that we could not even translate it into Vedic Sanskrit without committing a solecism.
India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge Alexander Wilder 1861
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Vedas, mentions some grammatical forms peculiar to the Vedic Sanskrit, and states that at his time young Brahmans spent all their time, from the seventh to the thirtieth year of their age, in learning these sacred texts.
Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion 1861
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In meeting rooms at the hotel, they ramble about Vedic Sanskrit and Oregon English and chide each other for talking too fast.
IOL Technology 2010
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The Gāyatrī Mantra is a highly revered mantra, based on a Vedic Sanskrit verse from a hymn of the Rigveda (3.62.10), attributed to the rishi Viśvāmitra.
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The Gāyatrī Mantra is a highly revered mantra, based on a Vedic Sanskrit verse from a hymn of the Rigveda (3.62.10), attributed to the rishi Viśvāmitra.
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The texts are composed in Vedic Sanskrit and form the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature, and sacred texts of Hinduism.
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The texts are composed in Vedic Sanskrit and form the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature, and sacred texts of Hinduism.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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