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'''Sanskrit''' is an [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]] language that dates to about the 5th century B.C. It is also the language in which the [[Hindu]] and [[Buddhist]] [[Sutra]] and [[Shastra]] [[scripture]]s and all of the major classical texts of [[Ayurvedic medicine]] were written.   

'''Sanskrit''' is an [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]] language that dates to about the 5th century B.C. It is also the language in which the [[Hindu]] and [[Buddhist]] [[Sutra]] and [[Shastra]] [[scripture]]s and all of the major classical texts of [[Ayurvedic medicine]] were written.   

Although it is no longer spoken in daily life except among Ayurvedic physicians and scholars in India, it is still used for religious purposes by Hindus and Buddhists who either recite certain scriptures and [[mantra]]s in Sanskrit even if they do not know the meanings since they are taught that such recitation induces [[meditation|meditative]] states called [[samadhi]].

Although it is no longer spoken in daily life except among Ayurvedic physicians and scholars in India, it is still used for religious purposes by Hindus and Buddhists who either recite certain scriptures and [[mantra]]s in Sanskrit even if they do not know the meanings since they are taught that such recitation induces [[meditation|meditative]] states called [[samadhi]].

It is one of the fifteen official languages of the [[India]]n constitution.

The Indic languages, [[Hindi]], Bengali, Punjabi, Urdu, Tamil, and Gujurati are modern day descendants of Sanskrit. It is one of the fifteen official languages of the [[India]]n constitution.

==Buddhism and Sanskrit==

==Buddhism and Sanskrit==