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=== Sanskrit === [[Sanskrit]] is the language of the [[Vedas]], [[Bhagavad Gita]], [[Puranas]] like the [[Bhagavata Purana|Bhagavatam]], the [[Upanishads]], the epics like [[Ramayana]] and [[Mahabharata]], and various other liturgical texts such as the [[Sahasranama]], [[Shri Rudram Chamakam|Chamakam]], and [[Rudram]]. Sanskrit is also the tongue of [[Hindu]] rituals. It also has secular [[literature]] along with its religious canon. Most [[Hindu theology|Hindu theologians]] of later centuries continued to prefer to write in Sanskrit even when it was no longer spoken as a day-to-day language. Sanskrit remains as the only liturgical link language which connects the different strains of Hinduism that are present across [[India]]. The ''de facto'' position that Sanskrit enjoyed, as the principal language of Hinduism, enabled its survival not only in India, but also in other areas, where Hinduism thrived like [[Southeast Asia]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Flood |first=Gavin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n79vEAAAQBAJ&dq=hindu+tamil+literature&pg=PT179 |title=The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Hinduism |date=2022-05-13 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-119-14488-5 |language=en}}</ref>
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