SSC MTS EXAM

SSC

WORLD HISTORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is Sanskrit?
A
a language spoken by early Aryans
B
a collection of stories that has cultural value
C
a community made up of many family members
D
a group of people who migrated from Central Asia
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Vedic Sanskrit was both a spoken and literary language of ancient India. According to Michael Witzel, Vedic Sanskrit was a spoken language of the semi-nomadic Aryans who temporarily settled in one place, maintained cattle herds, practiced limited agriculture, and after some time moved by wagon trains they called grama.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sanskrit language, (from Sanskrit saṃskṛta, “adorned, cultivated, purified”), an Old Indo-Aryan language in which the most ancient documents are the Vedas, composed in what is called Vedic Sanskrit.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sanskrit was first spoken and written in Syria, not India In fact, as Scroll recently reminded us, the form of Sanskrit found in the Rig Veda was found is Northern Syria.

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