Sanskrit
noun
an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. Skt, Skt., Skr., Skrt
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I am just printing the treatise on the “Origin of Languages” as a part of my philosophical work, and in it I would gladly have something on you, and from you, on the non-Sanskritic languages.
From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller