The Indo-Aryan languages are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family. As of the early 21st century, there were 800 million speakers, primarily concentrated east of
Early Indo-European migrations from the Pontic–Caspian steppe
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
Indo-Aryan languages
…reconstructed) Old Indo-Aryan (c. 1500–500 BCE) early Old Indo-Aryan: includes Vedic Sanskrit (c. 1500 to 500 BCE) late Old Indo-Aryan: Epic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit (c. 200 CE to 1300 CE) Mitanni Indo-Aryan (c. 1400 BCE) Middle Indo-Aryan or Prakrits (c. 600 BCE to 1400 CE) early Middle Indo-Aryan: e.g. early Jain…
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