Sanskrit words that you should know #2 Namaste: A loving greeting to everyone you meet this simple Sanskrit word is the key to being humble and forth coming to everyone your meet in life.

For example, “daughter” in English, “thugátēr” in Greek and “duhitár” in Sanskrit are all believed to have been derived from a common PIE root that was transformed by local speech ...

A PhD student just solved a Sanskrit grammatical puzzle taught by Pāṇini that has stumped scholars since the fifth century BCE.

If you’re interested in exploring the ancient healing system of Ayurveda, you’ve come to the right place. Ayurveda is a 5,000-year-old system of medicine that originated in India. It is one of the ...

Seers of Haridwar on Thursday pitched for the removal of Urdu words like 'shahi' used in Hindu religious contexts and suggested replacing them with their Hindi or Sanskrit substitutes.

CHENNAI: Governor RN Ravi on Friday said Tamil and Sanskrit, two ancient languages of the country, have gained by sharing words. “Some people ask which language is the oldest?

The overlay of Sanskrit did not trickle down to affect core vocabulary, the way that words from the European languages did with creoles, or the Prakrits did with the languages of north India.

For instance, the English word “father” is “pitar” in Sanskrit and is “pater” in Latin and Greek. “Brother” is “bhratar” in Sanskrit, “frater” in Latin. Although Jones wasn ...

Being stumped for centuries will no longer get in the way of these linguists after a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge found a tool that can help decode nearly any word in the ancient ...

Study points to likely common origin of English and Sanskrit 8,000 years ago Research provides hybrid of two competing theories on origin of Indo-European languages ...