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The Aryans.

Sanskrit is a language that is derived from The Vedas. The langauge of the Vedas could be called Vedic Sanskrit[ today, contrasting it with the language form used in the Classics].Otherwise "Vaidika bhAShA" would be more appropritae. When the word "Arya"[आर्य] is used in The Vedas it is not meant to be a race as has been popularized in colonial literature. An Arya is supposed to be educated and living by certain standards, as laid out in The Vedas.Accepting The Vedas as the extra-temporal authority on matters spiritual, religious, and societal living one becomes an "Arya"

As The Vedas[ Four of them after Veda Vyasa(kR^iShNa DwaipAyana] are Scriptures for the followers of the rightly termed Vedic Religion they- The Vedas- are considered to be of Divine Origin, more precisely the Breath Of God.

Since the later Sanskrit Literature evolved out of the form of Sanskrit used among the populace following the Vedic times, the language is also called devabhAShA= gairvANI= gIvANavANI and the like. The word saMskR^itam is used to refer to this popular form of the language.

The vocabulary of the language is derived from alterations of words from The Vedas which being r^iShi-vAk = The Word [=shabda - being another epithet for The Vedas] are seen to be perfect in "birth". Hence a lot of argumentation in Sanskrit Literature proceeds from the form and meaning of the word as used in The Vedas as sacrosanct. The whole of argumentation in the shastras is on this premise. In this sense it differs from other languages.

A student of Sanskrit encounters this difficulty since he would have ocassions to be surprised by the tendency in the literature is to hold the vocab as "standard". Elaborate grammatical rules have been constructed so that each word is "synthesized" according to rules laid out by maharShi pANini the first comprehensive grammarian/linguist to codify the rules.

Thus in short it makes more sense to say the people who use Sanskrit Language and abide by The Vedas are Aryans rather than the other way round- i.e. Sanskrit is the language of the Aryans!

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