English example sentences with "Sanskrit"

The word "rook" comes from Sanskrit and means "chariot".
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Samsara is a Sanskrit word that means “the ever turning wheel of life”.
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A daughter language descends from another language - for example, Hindi is a daughter language of Sanskrit.
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Indians know their country by many names: "Bharat" from Sanskrit, "Hindustan" from Persian and "India" from English.
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The Vedas were written in Sanskrit.
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Many Hindus consider Sanskrit to be the language of the gods.
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Therefore, E.T.A. Hoffman asserts: "Music is the most romantic of all arts, for its object is the infinite. It is the mysterious Sanskrit of nature, spoken in tones which fill up the soul of mankind with infinite yearning; and it alone lets us understand the songs of the trees, the flowers, the animals, the stones and the waters."
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Chandra means "moon" in Sanskrit.
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Tom doesn't understand Sanskrit.
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In addition, devanagari is an abugida, used for Sanskrit, Nepali and Hindi, in which the characters contain a final 'a'-sound if another vowel does not change the sound. However, Arabic and Hebrew use separate systems called abjads, in which the vowels are not always indicated.
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Tom does not understand Sanskrit.
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An anthropologist wrongly applied the word "Semitic" not just to languages like Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya and Hebrew but specifically to ethnically and culturally Jewish people. More ominously, from 1880 through the Nazi period of German history, racists extended the word "Aryan," which had meant the Sanskrit-Persian language family, to deliberately foster the vile and discredited theory of a so-called Aryan race.
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"Namaste," a combination of two Sanskrit words, translates into "bowing to you".
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Latin, Greek, Persian, and Sanskrit descended from a common ancestor.
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I'm going to give you a crash course on Sanskrit right now.
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Lithuanian is a Baltic language which is often compared to Sanskrit by linguists due to their striking similarity.
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By 2014, the Indian government had declared Tamil, Sanskrit, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, and Odia as classical languages of India.
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Amongst South Asian languages, I prefer Pali, Sanskrit, and Hindi. Pali is for the study of Southern Buddhism. Sanskrit is for the study of Northern Buddhism and Hinduism. Hindi is important in India, and I wonder how good is science fiction written in Hindi. I saw the sci-fi movie Prometheus dubbed in Hindi, which was fascinating.
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Back to North America from Japan, I was in the Seattle area. I bought a book about learning Sanskrit, as I became more interested in Hinduism and Buddhism. The bookstores were good in that area.
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Anātman (Sanskrit; Pāli Anattā) is the essential Not-self in Buddhism. Japanese and Thais try to reconcile their Buddhist beliefs with Animistic beliefs of having multiple souls or spirits. Somehow, they do manage to do it, and they have no religious conflict. Buddhists believe in the perpetually transforming fluidity of consciousness.

India—Bhārat—is still full of mystery to me. I still cannot differentiate Hindi from Punjabi upon overhearing a conversation. Of East Indian languages, my favourites are Pali, Sanskrit, and Tamil. Pali is the liturgical language of Southern Buddhism, whilst Sanskrit is the liturgical language of Northern Buddhism and Hinduism. Tamil is official in Singapore, along with Mandarin, Malay, and English.

It is evident from what has been said, that before 500 A.D. literary chronology, even in the Sanskrit period, is almost entirely relative, priority or posteriority being determined by such criteria as development of style or thought, the mention of earlier authors by name, stray political references as to the Greeks or to some well-known dynasty, and allusions to astronomical facts which cannot have been known before a certain epoch.

India, or Bhārat, is still a mysterious place for me. I have studied a bit of Sanskrit and Pali, Sanskrit being the liturgical language of Hinduism and Northern Buddhism, whilst Pali being the liturgical language of Southern Buddhism. I am a close friend of Jai, who comes from an East Indian family of Hindu orientation. Jai, a software engineer, is married to a German, Erika. They met in Europe and moved to Canada here. Jai and Erika with two daughters, Charlotte and Johanna, lived in a condo near Kitsilano Beach in Vancouver, BC. Jai tries to speak German. His kids learn German, French, and English. Jai and I used to have lunches and dinners at Japanese restaurants. Jai viewed Vancouver as too big a city, and he wanted to move to a smaller town.

Sanskrit is a very old language. Around 4000 years old I believe.

"Advaita" is a Sanskrit word that translates as "not two" or "no second."

I want to learn Sanskrit.

Sanskrit is an ancient language.

Is it worth learning Sanskrit?