classical Sanskrit

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

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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)

Ráví was known to the writers of the Vedic hymns as the Parushní, but is called in classical Sanskrit Irávatí, whence the Hydraotes of the Greek historians.

From The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Douie, James McCrone, Sir

Nor is it unimportant that Manu is the son of the sun-god, and that the phrase “the seven rishis” in classical Sanskrit is a designation of the seven stars of the Great Bear.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various