Udder way 'round. Sanskrit is a very old Eastern Indo-European Language. There are two main branches of Indo-European, the Eastern or "Satem" languages and the Western or "Centum" (pronounced "Kentum") branch. Satem and centum are Avestan (old Iranian) and Latin for one-hundred. In the Eastern branch, the first sound in this word was invariably a sibilant (e.g., "s", "sh" ,etc), in the Western branch a fricative ( "h", "k"...).
Sanskrit, which can be translated as "holy" or "sacred", is a very old member of the Indic family. It stands in relation to modern Indic languages somewhat in the same status as Latin to modern Romance languages. It is fairly far evolved from Indo-European. It is interesting because it still preserves the full grammatic structure and inflections of the older language. One feature is particulary intriguing, the "number" of a noun can be singular, dual or plural. In other words the form of the word for man can be "man", "two (or both) men" or "(more than two) men". There are lots of things that occur so often in pairs that perhaps this is natural: hands, eyes, arms, twins.... English to this day has a unique dual designation, "both". "Both eyes" or "both arms" are different than "two eyes" or "two arms".