Greater India
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Greater India, also known as the Indian cultural sphere, the Indic world, or the Hindu Cultural Sphere is an area composed of several countries and regions in South Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia
Candi Bukit Batu Pahat of Bujang Valley. A Hindu-Buddhist kingdom ruled ancient Kedah possibly as early as 110 CE, the earliest evidence of strong Indian influence which was once prevalent among the Kedahan Malays.
Atashgah of Baku, a fire temple in Azerbaijan used by both Hindus and Persian Zoroastrians
Hindu-Buddhist icongraphy from Mogao Caves in the Gobi Desert
Ghandaran-style murals dated from the Kingdom of Kucha in Kizil Caves, Xinjiang
Sanskrit
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Sanskrit is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the
Bhagavad Gita 19th century Illustrated Sanskrit Chapter 1.20.21
Sanskrit College 1999 stamp of India
Rigveda (padapatha) manuscript in Devanagari, early 19th century. The red horizontal and vertical lines mark low and high pitch changes for chanting.
A 17th-century birch bark manuscript of Pāṇini's grammar treatise from Kashmir