Sanskrit is the predominant classical language of South Asia. The oldest dialect, Vaidika, has a body of literature dating back at least to the 2nd millennium BCE. Yet, Sanskrit continues to be used even today in religious rituals and as a language of poetry and intellectual discourse. With the great many languages spoken throughout the South Asian subcontinent, Sanskrit has long held an important role in trans-regional communication. The corpus of Sanskrit literature is vast, containing sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, as well as a rich body of poetry and poetic theory. Discursive literature in Sanskrit ranges across many disciplines such as Astronomy, Mathematics, Logic, Grammar, Medicine (Ayur-veda), Erotics (the Kama-sutras and related texts), Prosody, Law and Yoga. Sanskrit, as one of the oldest Indo-European languages, also plays an essential role in comparative philology
The Department of AMESALL currently offers Sanskrit through the intermediate level.
Lucy Stone Hall