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...the [[Vedic civilization|Vedic]] "[[Sulba Sutras]]" ("rule of chords" in [[Sanskrit]]), ca. 600 BCE, contained the first use of [[irrational numbers]], and an

...'eka-aluminium', 'eka-boron', and 'eka-silicon', the prefix 'eka' from the Sanskrit numeral 'one', referring to a missing element one period away in his versio ...alogous element, whether even or odd, and I shall join to it the name of a Sanskrit numeral: eka (one), dvi (two), tri (three), tschatur (four), etc...''

..., 2011)</ref> and comes from [[Pali]], its language, which is similar to [[Sanskrit]]. Before 1892, and often after, Western scholars used the Pali name Tipi� ...i is not a pure vernacular dialect, but a mixture of dialects, including [[Sanskrit]].

...ian]] linguist {{Unicode|[[Pāṇini]]}} who formulated the 3,959 rules of [[Sanskrit]] morphology in the text ''{{Unicode|[[Aṣṭādhyāyī]]}}''. The Graeco

...the words, Webster studied two dozen languages, including Anglo-Saxon and Sanskrit. Webster hoped to standardize American speech, since Americans in different

of Fermat and Euler. Later Sanskrit authors would ...n]] ordered translations of many Greek mathematical works and at least one Sanskrit work (the ''Sindhind'',

...e transmitted for centuries solely by memorization in an archaic form of [[Sanskrit]] that had not been spoken as a vernacular for hundreds of years), bards fa

...]]'', which is derived from the [[Old Persian]] word ''[[Hindu]]'', from [[Sanskrit]] ''[[Sindhu]]'', the historic local appellation for the [[Indus River]].<r ...nt of India]] for official purposes, wherein Hindi has a legal priority. [[Sanskrit]] and [[Tamil language|Tamil]] enjoy [[classical language]] status in India

...ry in commentaries on the ''Chandas Shastra'', an ancient Indian book on [[Sanskrit]] [[prosody]] written by [[Pingala]] between the 5th century BC and 2nd cen

...atin, “rabies,” which means “madness.” This may have been derived from the Sanskrit word, rabhas, “to do violence.” The virus has a distinct “bullet” s

...Equivalent terms in other cultures derive from very different ideas. In [[Sanskrit]], ''[[dharma]]'' (often nowadays used to translate "religion") refers to [

...ck to the ancient custom of ''darsán,'' as recorded in the 6th century BCE Sanskrit epic ''The Mahābhārata.'' In ancient Greece, the word that offered the cl

...filtration were used by ancient civilizations, and are recorded in both [[Sanskrit]] writings and [[Egyptian]] inscriptions. As early as 2000 B.C.E. filtrati

...storians have suggested that it may have originated in variations of the [[Sanskrit]] words ''Bhota-ant'' (the end of Bhot &ndash; another word for [[Tibet]]), "Bhutan" may be derived from the [[Sanskrit]] word ''Bhu-Utthan'' meaning "High Land". In another theory of [[Sanskriti

...Charles Wilkins]] had done pioneering work translating [[Sanskrit language|Sanskrit]] texts into [[English language|English]]. The American [[Transcendentalist

...y BC]], with the use of the Maharastri language, a Prakrit corruption of [[Sanskrit]]. The region which is today the state of Maharashtra was also known as ''D

::::No, it is derived from Sanskrit ''supt'' which means sleeping (emperor)![[User:Supten Sarbadhikari|Supten]]

...his teens, as the family's financial position worsened, Ramkumar started a Sanskrit school in Calcutta (now known as Kolkata), while also serving as a priest t ...cal words and idioms from village Bengali, interspersed with philosophical Sanskrit terms and references to the Vedas, Puranas, and Tantras. For that reason, a

...languages|Indo-European]] root means to discern or to separate, akin to [[Sanskrit]] ''chyati'', he cuts off, [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] ''schizein'', to split,

...and 'nāstika' generally mean 'theist' and 'atheist', respectively. But in Sanskrit philosophical literature, 'āstika' means 'one who believes in the authorit ...blications: Delhi, 2001) ISBN 81-7110-138-7 (Set of four volumes). Parimal Sanskrit Series No. 45; 2003 reprint: 81-7020-070-9