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FEW IMPORTANT POINTS ABOUT SANSKRIT
1. It is generally believed that Sanskrit is a language like any other except that it is more complicated and dead for all purposes.
1. It is generally believed that Sanskrit is a language like any other except that it is more complicated and dead for all purposes.
At best, people are willing to admit that it has a great literature and a cultural value at the other end, there are people who consider it as a mysterious combination of words to create a religious atmosphere through prayers, chanting, incantations, etc.
But Sanskrit is much more than that and possesses within itself many of the attributes of a great and useful language.
2. It is both a science and an art combined in one. As a language, Sanskrit has a degree of permanence which no other language has. In olden days, when teaching
2. It is both a science and an art combined in one. As a language, Sanskrit has a degree of permanence which no other language has. In olden days, when teaching
was oral, there was a need to keep information in tact and pass them on from generation to generation accurately. This led, on one hand, to a strong emphasis towards versification, poetry and phonetics. On the other side, formulae were devised of inventing and converting words
in such a way that chances of distortion were kept at a minimum.
3. After Panini's grammer, Sanskrit language was so much standardized that further linguistic development was not possible. By a general consensus the world over, it is well recognized that Sanskrit literature,
3. After Panini's grammer, Sanskrit language was so much standardized that further linguistic development was not possible. By a general consensus the world over, it is well recognized that Sanskrit literature,
as it exists today, is the least distorted of all the languages .The Rigveda and other literary compositions have come to us as accurately as they were at the beginning. Only in Sanskrit language we get the sophistication to express the same thought in many ways, what in
mathematics is known as "onto or many- to-one, mapping.
4. For every statement, there is more than one meaning to that statement, and that give certain iridescence to the language This gives rise to prose, poetry, music, dance etc. It also leads to-a process by which imagination
4. For every statement, there is more than one meaning to that statement, and that give certain iridescence to the language This gives rise to prose, poetry, music, dance etc. It also leads to-a process by which imagination
is brought in as in mythology If we concede that mythology is language no, "a higher language that ordinary words cannot express," then Sanskrit language must have a high degree of sophistication since Sanskrit is vast, rich in imaginative symbolism and even profound at times.
5. Sanskrit reflects the aspirations and thoughts of the people who use it In Sanskrit, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata each and every character re- flects some aspect of life even modern life. The statement in the epic Mahabharata that “yadihAsti tadanyatra yannEhAsti na tat
kvacit” exaggeration, nor the saying The clothes might have been different but the thoughts are identical.
6. However Sanskrit is just not merely a language "It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them It represents a fotal integrated culture which is known as Indian culture is everything
that has come to us from Srinagar to Kanyakumari.
7. There is a common culture in this country which is visible when one studies Sanskrit because the marks of Sanskrit are found everywhere .This culture is so powerful viable that it has remained alive and unbroken over a period
7. There is a common culture in this country which is visible when one studies Sanskrit because the marks of Sanskrit are found everywhere .This culture is so powerful viable that it has remained alive and unbroken over a period
of nearly five thousand years .It is a singular idiosyncracy of Sanskrit language that the very word (samskrti) means culture.
