The ancient language of the Hindus, and the oldest and rood primitive of the Indo-European tongues. It has long since ceased to be a living language but in it most of the literature of the Hindus is written from the oldest portion of the Vedas onwards. (Veda). To the scores of tribes and nations of discordant speech in India, Sanscrit has long been the sacred and literary dialect, and all the cultivated tongues of modern India are as full of Sanscrit words as the European tongues are of Latin: It is a highly inflected language and to philologists is the most valuable of tongues owing to its freedom from the corruptions and disguises of phoentic changes and from obliteration of the original meaning of its vocabies. The classical Sanscrit is a dialect which, at a later period, after the full possession of Hindustan and the development of Brahmanism out of the simpler and more primitive religion and polity of Vedic times, became established as the literary language of the whole country, and has ever since maintained that character, being still learned for writing and speaking in the Lamasaries and Temples as well as in native schools of the Braroanic priesthood.

From the fact that inscriptions in a later form of Indian language are found dating from the third century B. C, it is inferred that the Sanscrit must at least as early as that have ceased to be a vernacular tongue.

Dr. de Laurence.

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