![]() The corpus of Sanskrit literature encompasses a rich tradition of poetry and drama as well as scientific, technical, philosophical and religious texts. Sanskrit holds a prominent position in Indo-European studies. Today it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand. ![]() It is a standardised dialect of the Old Indo-Aryan language, originating as Vedic Sanskrit and tracing its linguistic ancestry back to Proto-Indo-Iranian and Proto-Indo-European. Sanskrit ( / ˈ s æ n s k r ɪ t / संस्कृतम् saṃskṛtam, or संस्कृत saṃskṛta, originally संस्कृता वाक् saṃskṛtā vāk, "refined speech") is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, a philosophical language in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, and a literary language that was in use as a lingua franca in the Indian cultural zone.
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