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Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
January 10, 2005	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
September 14, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
April 17, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
June 8, 2007	Good article reassessment	Delisted
October 20, 2014	Good article nominee	Not listed
February 1, 2016	Good article nominee	Not listed
Current status: Delisted good article

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Section sizes

Section size for Sanskrit (57 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	40,124	40,124
Etymology and nomenclature	3,681	3,681
History	14	45,183
Origin and development	8,530	8,530
Vedic Sanskrit	8,043	8,043
Classical Sanskrit	13,716	13,716
Sanskrit and Prakrit languages	11,012	11,012
Dravidian influence on Sanskrit	3,868	3,868
Influence	17,340	30,722
Decline	9,155	9,155
Modern Indo-Aryan languages	4,227	4,227
Geographic distribution	6,616	8,618
Official status	2,002	2,002
Phonology	1,430	24,509
Vowels	6,431	6,431
Consonants	7,298	7,298
Phonological alternations, sandhi rules	4,854	4,854
Pronunciation	4,496	4,496
Morphology	7,616	20,548
Tense and voice	2,309	2,309
Number, person	1,051	1,051
Gender, mood	1,620	1,620
Prosody, metre	7,952	7,952
Writing system	7,148	19,965
Scripts	111	10,436
Brahmi script	3,729	3,729
Nagari script	3,783	3,783
Other writing systems	2,813	2,813
Transliteration schemes, Romanisation	1,811	1,811
Epigraphy	570	570
Literature	2,019	10,737
Works	8,718	8,718
Lexicon	835	2,965
Dravidian lexical influence	1,039	1,039
Nominal-form preference	1,091	1,091
Influence on other languages	1,391	18,708
Indian subcontinent	7,390	7,390
Beyond the Indian subcontinent	785	9,927
East Asia	3,720	3,720
Southeast Asia	2,054	4,052
Indonesia	1,998	1,998
Rest of the world	1,370	1,370
Modern era	18	33,233
Liturgy, ceremonies and meditation	3,613	3,613
Literature and arts	5,487	5,487
Media	1,964	1,964
Schools and contemporary status	4,971	7,900
In the West	2,929	2,929
European studies and discourse	3,097	3,097
Symbolic usage	5,659	5,659
In popular culture	5,495	5,495
See also	286	286
Notes	31	31
References	35	19,024
Bibliography	18,989	18,989
Further reading	14,379	14,379
External links	2,416	2,416
Total	295,129	295,129

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