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Sanskrit is a very old language of India. A great deal of Hindu prayer, classical Indian poetry, and the first big books of Indian thought were written in it. People do not grow up speaking it at the kitchen table now — though some still learn it, rather as some people learn Latin — and many living languages of India still carry its words. In English you meet the name when someone talks about yoga, old Indian stories, or the history of languages. Scholars treat it with respect because so much was written in it so long ago. It is a language, not a religion.
梵語（也常說「梵文」；「梵文」有時較偏文字、經典）
組成A learned borrowing from Hindustani, itself from Sanskrit saṃskṛtá, “perfected, refined, well put together”. English first used it in the early 1600s.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Sanskritnoun/ˈsænskɹɪt/
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A classical Indo-European language of South Asia, which is the liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism.
- The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps no longer exists... - Sir William Jones, 2 February, 1786, at the Asiatick Society.
Sanskritadj/ˈsænskɹɪt/
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Relating to Sanskrit.
- Sanskrit, Greek, Slavonic, Germanic, and Celtic names were all of this type, but there are also shorter names formed from the compound ones; […].
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。