Definition of Sanskrit literature

1. Noun. Hindu literature written in Sanskrit.

Generic synonyms: Literature
Specialized synonyms: Hastinapura, Purana, Tantra, Sutra
Specialized synonyms: Ramayana, Kamasutra

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sanskrit Literature

Sanicula arctopoides
Sanicula bipinnatifida
Sanjay
Sankhya
Sankt-Peterburg
Sans-culottide
Sanscript
Sanscrit
Sansculottide
Sansculottides
Sansevieria guineensis
Sansevieria trifasciata
Sansevieria zeylanica
Sanskript
Sanskrit
Sanskrit literature
Sanskritic
Sanskritic language
Sanskritisation
Sanskritism
Sanskritist
Sanskritists
Sanskritization
Sansom's sign
Sanson's images
Sanson-Flamsteed projection
Santa
Santa's Little Helper
Santa Ana
Santa Ana wind

Literary usage of Sanskrit literature

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"No less does one exceed the limit of sanskrit literature in speaking of modern works written in Sanskrit. Sanskrit is still written and spoken, ..."

2. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1902)
"No less does one exceed the limit of sanskrit literature in speaking of modern works written in Sanskrit. Sanskrit is still written and spoken, ..."

3. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1844)
"It is true that sanskrit literature contains a good deal of Dharma Dharma is a term which is often taken in the narrow sense of a set of dogmas and ..."

4. Handbook of Universal Literature from the Best and Latest Authorities by Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (1902)
"sanskrit literature. 1. The Language. — 2. The Social Constitution of India. Brahmanism. — 3. Characteristics oi the Literature and it« Divisions. —4. ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"sanskrit literature. The history of sanskrit literature labors under the same disadvantage as the political history of ancient India, from the total want of ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The history of sanskrit literature labours under the same disadvantage as the political history of ancient India, from the total want of anything like a ..."

7. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"In sanskrit literature, moreover, with the exception of the ... The form and style of sanskrit literature differs generally from that of the Vedas (qv). ..."

8. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"No less does one exceed the limit of sanskrit literature in speaking of modern works written in Sanskrit. Sanskrit is still written and spoken, ..."

9. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1902)
"No less does one exceed the limit of sanskrit literature in speaking of modern works written in Sanskrit. Sanskrit is still written and spoken, ..."

10. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1844)
"It is true that sanskrit literature contains a good deal of Dharma Dharma is a term which is often taken in the narrow sense of a set of dogmas and ..."

11. Handbook of Universal Literature from the Best and Latest Authorities by Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (1902)
"sanskrit literature. 1. The Language. — 2. The Social Constitution of India. Brahmanism. — 3. Characteristics oi the Literature and it« Divisions. —4. ..."

12. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"sanskrit literature. The history of sanskrit literature labors under the same disadvantage as the political history of ancient India, from the total want of ..."

13. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The history of sanskrit literature labours under the same disadvantage as the political history of ancient India, from the total want of anything like a ..."

14. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"In sanskrit literature, moreover, with the exception of the ... The form and style of sanskrit literature differs generally from that of the Vedas (qv). ..."

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