(n.) The ancient language of the Hindoos, long since obsolete in vernacular use, but preserved to the present day as the literary and sacred dialect of India. It is nearly allied to the Persian, and to the principal languages of Europe, classical and modern, and by its more perfect preservation of the roots and forms of the primitive language from which they are all descended, is a most important assistance in determining their history and relations. Cf. Prakrit, and Veda.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Sanskrit; written in Sanskrit; as, a Sanskrit dictionary or inscription.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reason was that Hindu traditions were oraly transmitted and the records, written exclusively in Sanskrit, were incomplete.
(2) He talks of not of India but Bharat, a Sanskrit-origin word describing a Hindu civilisation.
(3) In brief, this paper is a review of Sanskrit literature for information on the origin and development of speech and language, speech production, normality of speech and language, and disorders of speech and language and their treatment.
(4) The information collected here is mainly from the Sanskrit texts written between 2000 B.C.
(5) I also deal with the theory of psychological medicine as stated in ancient Sanskrit texts.
(6) A notorious paper written in 1835 by Thomas Macaulay , commenting coolly that "a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia", called for all printing in Sanskrit and Arabic to be banned, and Hindu and Muslim religious schools outlawed.
(7) This paper aims at highlighting the knowledge of the Sanskrit scholars of ancient times in the field of speech and language pathology.
(8) Mucuna pruriens (Atmagupta, Sanskrit), which contains levodopa, was used in the treatment of Kampavata.
(9) Speaking as the proud host of Britain's most difficult quiz (Mondays on BBC Four etc etc), I watch our contestants – bespectacled, bejumpered, feverishly keen on Shostakovich symphonies or Sanskrit jokes – and I know that, confident in their priorities and passions, they look cool.
(10) Photograph: Alamy A chronicler from the time mentions that Humayun’s fort was built on the hallowed site of Indraprastha Indraprastha appears in one of India’s foundational Sanskrit epic poems, the Mahabharata , as the capital city established by its heroes, the Pandava brothers.
(11) The lectures were fascinating for they demonstrated many lines of kinship between ideas expressed in the ancient Sanskrit texts and ideas afloat still in the modern world.
(12) An attempt is made here to analyse the available drug recipes using this plant from Sanskrit literature in the light of modern scientific knowledge.
(13) The purpose is only to give a glimpse of the knowledge that the Sanskrit scholars of those times possessed.
(14) Tagore helped to choose the baby's name, which means "immortal" in Sanskrit.
(15) The village health culture includes curing practices from the Atharva-Veda (the most ancient Sanskritic literature), Ayurvedic Medicine, Unani Prophetic Medicine, and Western Biomedicine.
(16) This has been verified by spectrographically analyzing 109 Sanskrit sentences as spoken by ten Sanskrit speakers.
(17) The word itself is derived from the Sanskrit "to split", and refers to the split lentils and other pulses from which it is made.
(18) The concept of timing in speech as held by the ancient Sanskrit Scholars is described.
(19) Ashtanga is the focus (this is Mysore after all) but there’s a wide range of other classes to choose from, including hatha, shatkriya (cleansing), backbending and pranayama as well as instruction in Sanskrit and lessons in the yoga sutras.
(20) You don't need to learn yoga or Sanskrit or study any kind of ancient text to be part of Amma's religion, you just need to be able to receive a hug.
Tamil
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language.
(n.) One of a Dravidian race of men native of Northern Ceylon and Southern India.
(n.) The Tamil language, the most important of the Dravidian languages. See Dravidian, a.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study examines the state of mosquito-borne lymphatic filariasis in Madras, Tamil Nadu, in southern India during the 1970s and into the 1980s.
(2) • The Tamil Tigers (LTTE) were guilty of human rights abuses and demanded a cut of international NGOs' spending in the areas they controlled.
(3) Expect growing localised tensions around specific watersheds between one ethnic group and another, between farmers and cities, and so forth, he warns: “Rather than India versus Pakistan, it’s Karnataka versus Tamil Nadu over the allocation of a river that is shared between those two states.” The Water Stress Index , produced by UK risk analysis firm Maplecroft, provides an indication where water-related conflicts might be most likely to occur.
(4) The UNHCR said in a statement: “International law prescribes that no individual can be returned involuntarily to a country in which he or she has a well-founded fear of persecution.” The Tamil Refugee Council said it had spoken with a relative of one of the asylum seekers on board the vessel from India.
(5) A Tamil asylum seeker, speaking on condition on anonymity, fears being re-detained or deported: We are scared to go and meet the government.
(6) Neither should our distaste for the war be interpreted to mean that we support the Tamil Tigers.
(7) The UN report said most of the casualties came from government shelling and called for an independent international inquiry into what it called credible claims against Colombo and the Tamil Tigers .
(8) Sri Lanka mounted a merciless final assault on the Tamil Tiger insurgency in 2009 .
(9) The announcement will mean scrapping a review process set up by Labor in October 2012 to examine the cases of 55 mostly Tamil refugees, deemed to be a threat by Asio.
(10) It is believed that nine of the detainees adversely assessed by Asio, all Tamils, are refugees.
(11) Only a handful of local reporters have been permitted to visit the former territories held by the LTTE, who were fighting for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority, since the bloody and controversial end to the 26-year civil conflict in May last year.
(12) On information known publicly, one Tamil man was detained when he came to Australia because he was a lawyer for the LTTE’s civil administration, another because he dug ditches on LTTE orders for civilian Tamils to shelter in during air raids by government aircraft.
(13) Blood samples from 240 unrelated healthy Tamil-speaking South Indian Hindus residing in Madras (capital city of Tamil Nadu, India) were screened for HLA-A and -B antigen profiles.
(14) Fox's decision came after talks with Hague, the foreign secretary, and a warning by the British Tamils Forum that his trip would send mixed messages to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is facing strong international pressure for an investigation into allegations that Sri Lanka forces committed war crimes.
(15) Beneath the charm, Coleridge, a former British Press Awards young journalist of the year who was flung in jail briefly in Sri Lanka after reporting on the Tamil Tigers, is a sharp operator.
(16) 20 July 2006: The Tamil Tigers close the sluice gates of an eastern reservoir, cutting water to more than 60,000 people, prompting the government to launch its first major offensive on Tiger territory since the 2002 ceasefire.
(17) Recounting how the rebels, known formally as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, (LTTE) once controlled a wide swathe of the north and much of the east, Rajapaksa said that for the first time in 30 years, the country was unified under its elected government.
(18) Victims of Tamil Tiger attacks filed a lawsuit against Rajaratnam in New Jersey on Thursday, accusing him of assisting "crimes against humanity".
(19) Quietly, two weeks ago, a Tamil woman called Ranjini and her toddler son walked free from the gates of Villawood detention centre.
(20) The US state department and human rights groups have accused Sri Lanka's government and the rebels of war crimes against civilians during the final months of fighting, when government forces crushed the Tamil Tigers and ended the conflict.