BookRags.com Literature Guides Literature Guides Criticism/Essays Criticism/Essays Biographies Biographies My Bibliography Periodic Table U.S. Presidents Shakespeare Sonnet Shake-Up
Research Anything:        
History | Encyclopedias | Films | News | Create a Bibliography | More... Login | Register | Help

Search "Sanskrit"

 


Sanskrit

Print-Friendly
About 72 pages (21,698 words) in 7 products

"Sanskrit" Search Results
Contents:
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
summary from source:
Pañcatantra Summary
1,313 words, approx. 4 pages
PAÑCATANTRA. The Pañcatantra is a collection of animal stories, in Sanskrit, compiled by an unknown author some time prior to the sixth (possibly as early as the fourth) century CE. Many of the stories were doubtless drawn from the great...
summary from source:
Puruṣa Summary
1,037 words, approx. 4 pages
PURUṢA is a Sanskrit word meaning "person" or "a man." Throughout Indian intellectual history the term has acquired the independent meanings of "the first man, self," and "consciousness."...
summary from source:
Sanskrit Summary
434 words, approx. 1 pages
The earliest traces of Sanskrit, an Indo-Aryan language that is part of the larger family of Indo-European languages, occur in the hymns of the Rig Veda (the earliest Hindu sacred writings), which may have been composed as early as the second...
summary from source:
Nanjō Bunyū Summary
431 words, approx. 1 pages
NANJŌ BUNYŪ (1849–1927), also transliterated Nanjio Bunyiu; Japanese Buddhist scholar who first introduced Sanskrit into Japan from Europe and laid the foundation for Western-style Sanskrit and Buddhist studies in Japan....
summary from source:
Sanskrit Information
9,684 words, approx. 32 pages
Sanskrit (संस्कृता वाक् <i><span lang="sa-Latn" title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">saṃskṛtā vāk, for short...
 


News and Journals
summary from source:

Reuters North American News Service
Marijuana chemical may treat depression -study
11/5/2007: 271 words, approx. 1 pages
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A drug that boosts levels of the brain's own "bliss" chemical can help reverse symptoms of depression in rats, U.S. and Italian researchers reported Monday. The drug helps maintain high levels of a compound called anandamide, named after the Sanskrit word...
summary from source:

greatreporter.com
A Brief History of the Kama Sutra
10/3/2007: 372 words, approx. 1 pages
The WriterThe Kama Sutra is written in Sanskrit, the classical Indian language in which many works of Hindu literature were written. Almost nothing is known about Vatsyayana, its author . He lived sometime between the 1st and 6th Century AD, and the fact that he...
 


Sanskrit Study Pack

Get the complete Sanskrit Study Pack, which includes everything on this page. Approximately 72 pages (at 300 words per page) in 6 products.
This Study Pack Contains:
7 Encyclopedia Articles
Multiple Formats Available:

· online web format
· "print-friendly" format
· downloadable PDF format
· downloadable Word/RTF format
Available Immediately Online
 

Sanskrit

Print-Friendly
About 72 pages (21,698 words) in 7 products


Join BookRagslearn moreJoin BookRags


About BookRags | Customer Service | Report an Error | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy