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• many sex positions derive their Sanskrit names from that of the Hindu goddess of sexual pleasure – Rati (pictured with her husband, the lovegod Kama)?
• investment banker John P. Clay pursued his interest in Sanskrit literature by endowing the Clay Sanskrit Library, a 100-volume series of Sanskrit works translated into English?
• the 14th century Sanskrit poem Madura Vijayam chronicles the conquest of Madurai Sultanate by the Vijayanagar Empire?
• the Hamsa-Sandesha is a Sanskrit love poem that tells the story of Rama and Sita in the style of Kalidasa's Meghaduta?
• the last old-Kannada grammar, authored by Bhattakalanka Deva in circa 1604 CE, followed the model of Sanskrit grammar?
• the bark of the Himalayan Birch was once used as paper for writing Sanskrit texts (pictured)?
• former Thai Minister of Education M.L. Pin Malakul created a slide rule for calculating the day of week of any given date despite being required to study Sanskrit rather than mathematics?
• a Vihara is an Indian Buddhist cave monastery that takes its name from the Sanskrit word for "a secluded place in which to walk"?
• Chavundaraya, the builder of the Gomateshwara monolith (pictured) at Shravanabelagola, was an army commander, minister and a famous writer of Kannada and Sanskrit literature?
• Arthur W. Ryder taught the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit to J. Robert Oppenheimer, who said it shaped his philosophy of life and famously quoted it at the Trinity nuclear test explosion?
• Lingyan Temple in Shandong, China features a nine-storey Song Dynasty pagoda, named the Pizhi Pagoda (pictured) from the Sanskrit word pratyeka?
• Kirātārjunīya, a Sanskrit poem by Bharavi, is known both for its depth and its wordplay, including a symmetric verse that reads the same forward, backward, horizontally and vertically?
• Shishupala Vadha, a Sanskrit epic poem by Magha, contains what has been called "the most complex and exquisite type of palindrome ever invented"?
• historian P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar believed that Kanchipuram was the southernmost outpost of Sanskrit culture during the pre-Pallava period?