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Sanskrit
Sanskrit is a classical Indo-Aryan language of South Asia, used for religious, literary, philosophical and scientific texts over more than three millennia. Under the Gupta Empire classical Sanskrit literature reached its peak, with poets such as Kalidasa. It was also adopted as a language of royal inscriptions in the Khmer Empire, and accounts of the Brazilian Empire note that Emperor Pedro II translated works from Sanskrit.
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