Not only nouns and adjectives, but also Sanskrit pronouns encode case, gender, and number like English him his (case 2 & 6), he it she (gender M N F), I we (sg pl), but 7 cases x 3 genders x 3 numbers (dual!) and mostly all filled out. English is a pile of shards from the great collapsing tower of Proto Indo European pronouns, if Sanskrit is any measure. Certainly there's no enormous hole like English has, unable to distinguish singular and plural you, except in dialects with y'all (SE US) and you'ns (Pittsburgh). If you're into pronouns, here's the limit.
(As elsewhere, bold font encodes redundancy: a non-bold element re-uses a first-occurrence, bold element in the same column of the same paradigm, or the same column-and-row of a different paradigm.) 1st person (उत्तमपुरुष्)Goldman p71
2nd person (मध्यमपुरुष्)Goldman p72
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Masculine 3rd person (प्रथमपुरुष्)Goldman p83
Neuter 3rd person (प्रथमपुरुष्)Goldman p83
Feminine 3rd person (प्रथमपुरुष्)Goldman p84
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Masculine 3p (ayam / asau ...)Goldman Ch 19.0
Neuter 3p (idam / adas ...)Goldman Ch 19.1
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Feminine 3p (iyam / asau ...)Goldman Ch. 19.2
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