Sanskrit example sentences

The word India comes from the Indus, called Sindhu in Sanskrit.इण्डिया शब्द इण्डस से निकला है जिसे संस्कृत में सिंधु कहा जाता है|Interestingly enough, a fourteenth-century text, the Lilatilakam, dealing with grammar and poetics, was composed in Manipravalam – literally, “diamonds and corals” referring to the two languages, Sanskrit and the regional language.The Brihaddharma Purana, a thirteenth-century Sanskrit text from Bengal, permitted the local Brahmanas to eat certain varieties of fish.The first literary works in Malayalam, dated to about the twelfth century, are directly indebted to Sanskrit.Pandita Ramabai, a great scholar of Sanskrit, felt that Hinduism was oppressive towards women, and wrote a book about the miserable lives of upper-caste Hindu women.The temple theatre of Kerala, which is traced to this period, borrowed stories from the Sanskrit epics.How, then, did the new language emerge? From the fourth-third centuries BCE, commercial ties began to develop between Bengal and Magadha (south Bihar), which may have led to the growing influence of Sanskrit.In the seventh century the Chinese traveller uan Zang observed that languages related to Sanskrit were in use all over Bengal.At the same time, the Cheras also drew upon Sanskritic traditions.Interestingly, he had been an ascetic in his early life and had studied Sanskrit scriptures carefully.Early Bengali literature may be divided into two categories – one indebted to Sanskrit and the other independent of it.Also, a wide range of non-Sanskrit words, derived from a variety of sources including tribal languages, Persian, and European languages, have become part of modern Bengali.Banabhatta's Kadambari, written in Sanskrit in the seventh century, is an early example.However, what is interesting is that while Bengali is now recognised as a language derived from Sanskrit, early Sanskrit texts (mid-first millennium BCE) suggest that the people of Bengal did not speak Sanskritic languages.A Sanskrit prashasti (see Chapter 2 for an example of a prashasti) praising the Delhi Sultan Ghiyasuddin Balban (1266-87) explained that he was the ruler of a vast empire that stretched from Bengal (Gauda) in the east to Ghazni (Gajjana) in Afghanistan in the west and included all of south India (Dravida).