Many languages' roots come from Sanskrit, as it serves as a baseline, and languages like Hindi, Bengali, and Punjabi, as well as other Indo-European languages like Italian and French, and Germanic languages such as English and German.
Sanskrit is the oldest source of a "Proto-Indo European language", in history.
Words like "Matr" (Sanskrit for mother) and "Pithr" (Sanskrit for father) are used in the English language as ways to address one's parents.
"Na" being "No", and "Dwar" meaning "door".
Often, when a word goes from Sanskrit to a Latin or Germanic language, it turns the 'p' sounds into 'th' sounds, and the word 'matr' turns to 'mother'.
In the Vedas, there is a sky god named Dyauspitr, whose the word 'dayus' means sky, while the Greeks have Zeus Pater, which is eerily similar to each other in pronouciation, and the Roman god Jupiter (which is the Roman version of Zeus, is 'Jeu-piter', all of these words sound very similar when spoken, and the Vedas has Indra, which is dubed as the 'king of the gods' being the son of Dyauspitr.
Indra has many qualities that are not associated with Jupiter and Zeus. Indra is the god of the sky and is supposed to throw bolts of lightning, which is similar to the Norse god of lightning, Thor. Indra also has a hammer that can also throw lightning, similar to Thor.
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