This is has been accepted by Reverend J. B. S. Carwithen, known as one of the ?Brampton Lecturers,? who says, as quoted in Reverend J. P. bLundy's/b Monumental Christianity (pp. b...../b The term ?vestry? in referring to the room in churches in which holy clothes are kept comes from the Sanskrit word bvestra/b, meaning clothes. Even the word ?psalm? with a silent ?P? comes from the Sanskrit word sam or sama which means holy and serious sacred songs, hymns or chants, ...