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Example sentences for: sanskrit

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The Sanskrit for `wrought silver' is the basis for rupee (India, Pakistan, Seychelles, Sri Lanka), rupiah (Indonesia), and rufiyaa (Maldives).
Further, English itself is just a bastardized version of other languages like French, German, Latin, and eventually Sanskrit.
Sanskrit was governed by verticals, but its sharp grid features were not possible in Ceylon.
This guard tower, built in 1345, is decorated in Buddhist carvings, with inscriptions in Chinese, Tibetan, Sanskrit, and languages of the northern tribes.
Portuguese was the immediate source of four words (the Portuguese, it will be recalled, were also in India for several centuries, losing their colony of Goa only in December 1961): copra , from Hindi khopra via Malayalam koppara; machila or machilla `hammock slung from a pole,' from Hindi manzil (borrowed unchanged from Arabic) via Tamil macil or mancil; tael `unit of weight,' from Hindi tola (adapted from Sanskrit tula ) via Malay tahil ; and jambolan `Java plum,' the English version of Portuguese jambulao , from Hindi jambul .