Question: What kind of language did India first use in literature?
About the article "India", section "Literature".

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"Dari" is the name given to the New Persian literary language at a very early age and was widely used in Arabic (cf.
Al-Estakhri, Al-Muqaddasi, and Ibn Hawqal) and Persian texts.
There are different opinions about the origin of the word "Dari".
The majority of scholars believes that "Dari" refers to the Persian word "dar" or "darbār" (دربار), meaning ""Court"", as it was the formal language of the Sassanids.
The original meaning of the word "dari" is given in a notice attributed to Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (cited by Ibn al-Nadim in "Al-Fehrest").
According to him, ""Pārsī" was the language spoken by priests, scholars, and the like; it is the language of Fars."
It is obvious that this language refers to the Middle Persian.
As for "Dari", he says, "it is the language of the cities of Madā'en; it is spoken by those who are at the king’s court.
name is connected with presence at court.
Among the languages of the people of Khorasan and the east, the language of the people of Balkh is predominant.”The origin of Dari comes from the middle Persian which was spoken during the rule of the Sassanid dynasty.
In general, Iranian languages are known from three periods, usually referred to as Old, Middle, and New (Modern) periods.
These correspond to three eras in Iranian history, the Old era being the period from sometime before, during and sometime after the Achaemenid period (that is, to 300 BC), the Middle Era being the next period, namely, the Sassanid period and part of the post-Sassanid period, and the New era being the period afterwards down to the present day.
Research Sir John Malcolm did 200 years ago is based on a work from Italy in 1650 "Lingua Corteggiana" when he wrote (Dari was written in Europe "Deri"): "The name Deri is derived from Der, a word which runs through so many languages, and is to be traced in the Greek Θύρα, the German Thur, and our door.
For it was [...] the usage of the Persians, as it is of the Ottoman Porte, to name what approaches royalty from the gate, while we name it from the court within the gate: so that the Deri language may be rendered precisely by the lingua corteggiana of the Italians.
In earlier times, after the dialect of Bactria had been established at court by Baharam, this received the honour of being called the Deri.
Subsequently, under the early Sassanidae, the title might have been given with propriety to the Pehlevee; since the medals and inscriptions seem to prove, that the Pehlevee was then the favorite of royalty: the name of Deri, however, does not appear ever to have been assigned to it.
And perhaps the superior melody of the Farsee had obtained for it the preference as the language of conversation, even before Baharam Ghoor enacted that it should be adopted in all public documents.
For such was the sweetness and elegance of the Deri, that there is a tradition of Mahomet having declared, that "if God says any thing kind or gentle to the angels around him, he speaks in Deri; if anything harsh or hard, in Arabic."
"For (says Ibn Fakereddin) the language of the inhabitants of Paradise will be either the Arabic or the Persian Deri."
But it is thought that the first person in Europe to use the term "Deri" for "Dari" was Thomas Hyde, at Oxford, in his chief work, "Historia religionis veterum Persarum" (1700).
"Dari" or "Deri" has two meanings:  language of the court  "the Zebani Deri(Zeban i Deri or Zaban i Dari = the language of Deri), or the language of the court, and the Zebani Farsi, the dialect of Persia at large (...)"   "Dari", sometimes "Araki"-Methods (Iraqi), is a kind of poetry form since Rudaki to Jami.
In 1500 AD appeared in Herat in Persian speaking Timurid and by speaking in Farsi Indian poet in Mughal Empire and "the Indian verse methods" or "rhyme methods" like Bedil and Muhammad Iqbal.
Iqbal loved both Metods of literature and poetry, when he wrote: Translation according to literature and poetry:"Even though in euphonious Hindi* is sugar" –"(but) Rhyme method in Dari (Persian) is sweeter *""Qandi Parsi" or "e Parsi" (Rock candy of Parsi") is an allegory for the Persian language and poetry  Original "bey Iqbal": "Hindi"; Hindi in Devanagariscript = Urdu in Persian-Arabic-script  is an adjective of "uzūbat" or "ozubat" (english: bliss or delight, flavor or "sweetness"; "Uzubat" means in language, literature and poetry euphonious, melody or phonaesthetics This poem as a poetic statement of the poet Iqbal respect to the poem of Hafez 600 years ago, when Hafiz wrote:Translation according to literature and poetry:"All the parrots of India will crack sugar""Through this Persian Candy which is going to Bengal" 
Languages in use.
Languages of worship.
At first, Mauritius was an empty island where little by little, people settled.
As they did so, everyone came in with their culture, language and religious identity.
This is what explains the multicultural status of island and the existence of so many worships in such a small territory.
Each religion brought by each community is still practiced in the language spoken by this community or at least in the original language in which this particular religion was practiced.
Hindus use Hindu, Tamil, Urdu and Marathi in their worship.
Even though Bhojpuri is a language well used by Hindus in their daily life, it is not used as a language of worship because of its spoken status which confer it its unworthiness.
Muslims read the Koran in Arabic but the imam communicates with his congregation in Urdu or in Gujarati.
As far as Buddhists are concerned, the language used in the practice of their worship is the Chinese.
Finally, the Catholics mainly use the French language in their cult since Creole as the same kind of negative connotation as Bhojpuri which is considered as an unworthy language.
Therefore, Creole is only used by clergymen when directly addressing to the audience (when telling sermons for instance). 
Also, he has been awarded number of awards such as Karnatak State Folklore Academy, Dr. Chidananda award, Dr. Shamba Joshi award, Dr. Seddiyapu Krishnabhat award, Dr.M.
Vishveshvraiah award, Rajyostava award by Gulbarga University, Karnataka State award, and P.K.
Bhagoji award for his contribution to Kannada Language and research.
All India Dravidian Linguists Association (DLA) has awarded Hermann Gundert award to Dr. Sangamesh Saundattimath's "Varnatmaka Vachana Padakosha" (A Concise Encyclopedic Dictionary of Vachana Literature).
Award was conferred at the All India Dravidian Linguists Conference held recently at Thiruvananthapuram.
"Vachana Padakosha" is first of its kind in Kannada, which comprises all the relevant information regarding Vachana literature. 
Kolte did pioneering work in the field of Mahanubhava literature.
He researched about 20 ancient copper plates and stone inscriptions in Marathi, Prakrit, and Kannada languages.
He decoded literature of "Mahanubhav pandits", which they had written in an obscure code language in the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th century.
He wrote exhaustive introductions to his books about the researched literature.
For Kolte's scholarly book on Leela Charitra, the first known biography in Marathi, the All India Mahanubhava Parishad conferred on him in 1956 the title "Vidyaratna".
Kolte authored a book on simplification of Marathi orthography.
He was President of Marathi Sahitya Sammelan, the conference on Marathi Literature held at Bhopal in 1967. 
Kerala Sahitya Akademi or Academy for Malayalam literature is an autonomous body established to promote Malayalam language and literature.
It is situated in City of Thrissur, Kerala in India.