SANSKRITISMUS  

Indirect MULTILINGUALISM in which one writes so as to show that one is imitating the ways of Sanskrit.

Hypernym
  • MULTILINGUALISMVARIATIO of linguistic medium used.The mingling of sundry languages (typically affectedly).
    • VARIATIO4REPETITIO which consists in reverting to the same meaning using different words.Use of a different word for similar meaning, at least partly for euphonic variation.
      • REPETITIORHETORICAL FIGURE in which one and the same lexical, phonological, syntactic, or semantic element is repeated for rhetorical effect./...x...x.../: non-adjacent repetition of the same word, contrast morphological reduplication.
        • RHETORICAL FIGURE形式詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE which mainly consists in the distribution of expressions in a passage.
Quite common, but to differing degrees, in Chinese Buddhist translations.

    Rhetorical device locations: 1
    • 賢愚經 法衣著身,

      Preposed object, probably Sanskrit influence.