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Example sentences for: sanskrit

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The first is karmadharāya , a Sanskrit compound of karma fate, destiny + dharāya holding, bearing, which is used to describe a compound word in which the first member describes the second, as in highway, blackbird , (adj. + n.), steamboat, bonehead, fingerstall, fingernail, toenail (attrib. n. + n.).
This guard tower, built in 1345, is decorated in Buddhist carvings, with inscriptions in Chinese, Tibetan, Sanskrit, and languages of the northern tribes.
For several generations the Sanskrit word brahman (pronounced BRAAHMAN, the first vowel sounds as in the English word father ) has been used in the English language.
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 .
Buddhist scriptures are inscribed on the outer wall in Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Mongolian, along with carvings of 1,600 figures.