Unlock the Magic of Sanskrit: Why This Ancient Language Still Matters Today

Sanskrit: The Language Of Hindu Scriptures

Languages are the soul of a nation, and Indian languages are a reflection of our unity in diversity. India is the only country having “Unity in Diversity”. With so many languages, cultural change, functions etc etc.. Hindu civilization is the oldest civilization and the only one which is still existing from the past 6000 years (As Civilizations like Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Roman, Greek etc. perished with time).

The thought that languages are the soul of a nation would only help to unite and cement the bonding and feeling of belongingness. No country in the world comes close to matching the linguistic diversity of India just the number of ‘mother tongues’ in the country.

Languages are linked to each other by shared words or sounds or grammatical constructions. All Indian scripts come from the same script Brahmi. Writing came much later to India than to other parts of the world. Hence, both Tamil and Sanskrit have extremely strong oral traditions. The Sanskrit language is called Devbhasha. The theory is that the members of each linguistic group have descended from one language, a common ancestor.

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Hindi (mother language from Sanskrit) is so concocted language and has progressively subsumed many original languages by classifying them as ‘dialects’. Language is an everlasting emotion. It seems we feel much comfort when we communicate in our mother tongue (Native language).

Indian languages have been in existence and use for many centuries, and are well established. Their uniqueness lies in their originality, authenticity in terms of structure/grammar, richness in content and meaning belongs to Sanskrit. All Indian languages fall into one of these 4 groups; Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Sino-Tibetan and Afro-Asiatic. Sanskrit is classical language of South Asia that belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

Sanskrit is also widely used in Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism. Hindi was known by different names at different stages of its evolution in different eras. It was known as Apabhramsa at its earliest stage. Sanskrit is most logical language which follows a well-structured grammar system using separate tenses for one person, two persons and multiple persons.

The various vowels and consonants that make up Sanskrit words represent these core sounds, known as bijas. A Sanskrit word, is therefore not merely a word chosen to name something, but an actual reflection of the inherent ‘sound’ of that object, concept or phenomena. In fact, proper, or rather, perfect, pronunciation of Sanskrit words, it is told, can replicate the exact nature, or essence, of that which it is referring too.

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“India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.” ~ Will Durant, World Historian

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Sanskrit For Natural Language Processing

Sanskrit means ‘The most perfected and cultured’ among languages. It is the root of the entire IndoAryan branch in Asia and systems of European languages. The ten mandalas of the oldest literature of the world, the Rig Veda, is the basis of 10th or dasam, the unit of decimal system of the world.

To name a few only, words (Sabda or Soft) and their embedded ideas (Artha or Worth / Hard) like takkhana (to design and sculpture), jara (old age), asthi (bones), dhatri (child caretaker), kalasa (class taxonomy) are the bases of later knowledge systems namely ‘Technology’, ‘Geriatrics’, ‘Osteopathy’, ‘Paediatrics’
and ‘Ecclesia’, respectively.

Source: INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KHARAGPUR

Chinmaya Niketan Atlanta Samskritam Adult’s Class 2019-2020 | Swayamvaram

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ब्रह्म सत्यं जगन्मिथ्या जीवो ब्रह्मैव नापरः।
अनेन वेद्यं सच्छास्त्रमिति वेदान्तडिण्डिमः॥

Brahman alone is real; the universe is mithya – neither fully real nor unreal, but an appearance. The individual self (jiva) is none other than Brahman itself, not separate or different. This is the true teaching of the scriptures, as revealed by Vedanta. ~ Verse 20 from Brahma Jnānavali Māla