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Vedic Sanskrit is an Old Indo-Aryan language. It is the spoken ancestor of liturgical Sanskrit and an early descendant of Proto-Indo-Iranian. It is closely related to Avestan the oldest preserved Iranian language. Vedic Sanskrit is the oldest attested language of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European family.Vedic Sanskrit is the language of the Vedas texts compiled over the period of early-to-mid 2nd to mid 1st millennium BC.
