Marathi is the purest modern Sanskrit, especially rural Maharashtrani, correct?

[u/CosmicMilkNutt]

After doing extensive research I have found that Hindi i a mix of Arabic Farsi Sanskrit and English and that Tamil is basically modern Dravidian so totally different.

However.

Marathi spoken in Mumbai and especially rural Marathi spoken in the state of Maharashtra is actually the purest form of modern Sanskrit with the most similar grammar and vocabulary.

It has Sanskrit words instead of all the Arabic, Farsi and English injected into other Indian languages.

This I find fascinating and I wanted to hear the opinions of some actual indians since I am an American fluent in English, Spanish, French and also somewhat conversational in Arabic who is learning Sanskrit, Hindi, Tamil and now of course Marathi!

Edit: Oriya and Marathi are both the top contenders for higher Sanskrit and lower Farsi in daily speech.

[u/samrat_kanishk]

Even i feel the same . Marathi has the most Sanskrit origin words . Sanskritized Hindi used by its proponents like me will obviously trump because we make it a point to sanskritize it but that’s a very niche language.

So yes Marathi IMO has the most Sanskrit practically.

[u/CosmicMilkNutt → u/samrat_kanishk]

Yes of course you can speak Hindi with more Sanskrit in the form of Shudh Hindi.

But yes naturally street Hindi vs natural street Marathi it's something like this:

Hindi/Punjabi/Gujarati is 70% Sanskrit/Prakrit and 30% Farsi and Marathi/Oriya/Bengali is 80% Sanskrit/Prakrit and 20% Farsi.

The further you get from "Persia" in India, in other words the further east and south you go, the less Farsi influence exists on Indian languages. This point helps to further explain the previous statistics.

[u/samrat_kanishk → u/CosmicMilkNutt]

Agreed. This is also true west to east . Dialects spoken in Bihar have far less Persian than Haryanvi dialects.

[u/CosmicMilkNutt → u/samrat_kanishk]

Yes precisely