Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit

Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit
Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit
BHS
Region	Northern India
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Middle Indo-Aryan Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	budd1234
IETF	sa-bauddha

Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit (BHS) is a modern linguistic category applied to the language used in a class of Indian Buddhist texts, such as the Perfection of Wisdom sutras. BHS is classified as a Middle Indo-Aryan language. It is sometimes called "Buddhist Sanskrit" or "Mixed Sanskrit".