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Sanskrit Literature

Sanskrit Literature
Sanskrit is the ancient sacred and literary language of India. The sacred scriptures of Hindus are written in Sanskrit. Sanskrit belongs to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is written in the Devanagari script, shown here.
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