classical Sanskrit

American  

noun

1. Sanskrit of an ancient period earlier than that of the Prakrits and later than Vedic.

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Example Sentences

Zend, if compared with classical Sanskrit, exhibits in many points of grammar, features of a more primitive character than Sanskrit.

From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

In other cases, names unknown in classical Sanskrit, but obviously compounded of Sanskrit words, have been given by the Malays or Javanese.

From A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay by Maxwell, William Edward, Sir

The use of birch bark for literary purposes is attested by the earliest classical Sanskrit writers.

From Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

The reason for it is simply this: classical Sanskrit was only restored, if in some things perfected, by Panini.

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various

In classical Sanskrit, for instance, of the modal aorist forms the precative and benedictive almost alone remain, while the pluperfect, of which Delbr�ck has found traces in the Veda, has wholly disappeared.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various