HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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Hieroglyphics
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Sanskrit
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Cave Drawings
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Scribes
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Vedic Sanskrit was an ancient language of the Indo-Aryan subgroup of the Indo-European language family. It is attested in the Vedas and related literature compiled over the period of the mid-2nd to mid-1st millennium BCE. It was orally preserved, predating the advent of writing by several centuries.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sanskrit is an ancient and classical language of India in which ever first book of the world Rigveda was compiled. The Vedas are dated by different scholars from 6500 B.C. to 1500 B.C. Sanskrit language must have evolved to its expressive capability prior to that.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Aryans spoke Sanskrit and developed a right tradition of poems and hymns that survived from generation to generation by word of mouth. People later figured out how to write in Sanskrit. The huge lasting influence of these early written works make Sanskrit the most important language of ancient India.
Detailed explanation-5: -Sanskrit is usually written in the Devanāgarī script, a descendant of the Brāhmī script, although other scripts have been used and continue to be used. The Devanāgarī script is also used for writing Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali.
Detailed explanation-6: -Indo-Aryan languages, also called Indic languages, subgroup of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. In the early 21st century, Indo-Aryan languages were spoken by more than 800 million people, primarily in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.