Vedic Sanskrit is a language.
 Complex meters such as Anuubh and rules of Sanskrit prosody had been or were being innovated by this time, but parts of the Brhmaa layers show the language is still close to Vedic Sanskrit
==== g-vedic ====Many words in the Vedic Sanskrit of the gveda have cognates or direct correspondences with the ancient Avestan language, but these do not appear in post-Rigvedic Indian texts

