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Stunning Facts About Sanskrit

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Stunning Facts About Sanskrit

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UNO confirmed that Sanskrit is the Mother of all languages. About 97% of world languages have been directly or indirectly influenced by this language. If you master Sanskrit language, you can learn any language in the world very easily. Most efficient and best algorithms for computer have been made in Sanskrit not in english. USA, Germany and France are working on several projects to devise programmes that can drive devices based on Sanskrit. By the start of 2021, you will find several devices having backend software of Sanskrit and simple commands like “send”, “receive”, “go”, “move” in actual Sanskrit language.


Our own ancient language Sanskrit that made the world a harmonious place several centuries ago will soon become language of future – controlling the futuristic bots and gesture devices.

Sanskrit had some major advantages that amazes scientists and language researchers, some even deeming it as divine language for being so pure and pious. Sanskrit also decodes the real meaning hidden behind several hymns of Vedas and Puranas.




Stunning Facts of Sanskrit That Amazes the World​

Astonishing Realities of Sanskrit that can Surprise You


  1. The oldest texts in Sanskrit (the Vedas) are among the oldest in the world, and are believed to have been orally preserved unchanged for more than 2 millennia at least, despite not having been written down for more than a thousand years
  2. The attention paid to language in Sanskrit (study of grammar, phonetics, etc.) was unprecedented outside until almost the 20th century. The modern fields of historical linguistics/comparative linguistics, and ultimately much of the interest in linguistics owes its origin to the excitement at having “discovered” Sanskrit; and big names in linguistics like Chomsky and Kiparsky have acknowledged Pāṇini as an influence.
  3. Poetry in Sanskrit is extraordinarily diverse, with over 100 common meters, and books of prosody listing over 600 meters. Its literature includes works of dazzling complexity, including works that tell several stories at once using puns, works that contain words several lines long, brilliant examples of constrained writing, etc.
  4. Once learned, it is very easy to internalize. Sanskritic culture had a great reluctance towards writing. Oral transmission was preferred. Even when writing started to appear, it was the least important texts that were set to writing first: accounting work, administrative notices, land grants, followed by literary and scientific works, and the sacred works last of all. Sacred works were re-emerged, compiled and written whenever the dharma is in danger.


  5. The most extreme example are the Vedas, which apart from being among the world’s oldest texts might well be the ones with the largest interval of time between their composition and first being written down. The oldest layers are dated around 1500 BCE by modern scholars, and they were not set down in writing until probably the Gupta period (5th century or so), which makes some 2000 years.
  6. Despite the above fact (initial reluctance to writing), the proliferation of works continued, with the result that there are an estimated over 30 million Sanskrit manuscripts today with a conservative estimate of 7 million in India itself. This means there are orders of magnitude more manuscripts in Sanskrit than in Latin and Greek put together.
  7. These manuscripts are on a very diverse range of topics, everything from sacred texts to literary works (poetry, drama, satires, histories, epics, novels) to scientific works (mathematics, linguistics, logic, botany, chemistry, medicine,) to entire works on things as seemingly obscure as elephant-raising or even “A Method to Grow Crooked Bamboos for Palanquin Beams”. Ancient Nalanda library had most of these Sanskrit texts in their storage until it was ravaged and burnt by terrorist mughals.
  8. Sadly, most of these have not even been catalogued, and need deep research for compilation in proper manner and then get them indexed or digitized or translated.
  9. Sanskrit did not have a “default” script (like Devanagari) until very recently (<200 years ≈ the introduction of printing in India); it was written by everyone in the regional script of their region, in over two dozen scripts. This may make it the language that has been written in the most number of scripts. One of the reasons for Devanagari appearing to be the standard today is the power of Hindi, and also the fact that many early Sanskrit works were printed in Bombay where Devanagari is the script of the local language Marathi.

  10. Sanskrit is the “mother” of the most languages of North India and even the Romani language of the Romani people (“Gypsies”). Even biased theorists of fake Aryan invasion who kept ridiculing Hindu texts, gave credit to Sanskrit after they did research and found it to be the source of all languages, the Indo-Aryan languages evolved from Middle Indo-Aryan languages, which in turn evolved from Old Indo-Aryan = Sanskrit). Moreover, even the Dravidian languages (Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, and to quite some extent Tamil), which do not have their origins in Sanskrit have borrowed such a large proportion of their vocabulary from Sanskrit that it could well be called their foster mother.
  11. The Sanskrit’s sphere of influence extended all the way to South-East Asia (what is now Laos, Cambodia, etc.), without any invasion or forceful conversion or use of military power originating from India.
  12. Though the importance of Sanskrit has diminished significantly in the last few centuries due to invasion in India, it is far from a dead language: Sanskrit literature continues to thrive and flourish, with novels, short stories, essays and epic poems continuing to be written, and its authors picking up several literary awards (including highly regarded Jnanpith award in 2006).



Some More Mind Blowing Facts on Sanskrit


  1. There are more teachers of Sanskrit in India than combined learners of USA, France and Germany.
  2. Encrypting the value of pi in a shloka: There is a numbering system in Sanskrit called the Katapayadi system. This system ascribes a number to every letter or alphabet in the script, on which the ASCII system in computer science is based. When the letter in the following shloka is replaced with their corresponding number from the Katapayadi Sankhya, we get the value of pi accurate to 31 digits.
    गोपीभाग्यमधुव्रात-शृङ्गिशोदधिसन्धिग ।
    खलजीवितखाताव गलहालारसंधर ॥
    OR
    Gopibhagya madhuvrata srngisodadhisandhiga|
    Khalajivitakhatava galahalarasandhara||
    (The shloka extolls Krishna and his achievements.)

  1. Sanskrit has the highest number of vocabularies than any other language in the world.
  2. 102 arab 78 crore 50 lakh words have been used till now in Sanskrit. If it will be used in computers & technology, then more these number of words will be used in next 100 years.
  3. Sanskrit has the power to say a sentence in a minimum number of words than any other language.
  4. America has a University dedicated to Sanskrit and the NASA too has a department in it to research on Sanskrit manuscripts.

  5. Sanskrit is the best computer friendly language.(Ref: Forbes Magazine July 1987).
  6. Sanskrit is a highly regularized language. In fact, NASA declared it to be the “only unambiguous spoken language on the planet” – and very suitable for computer comprehension.
  7. Sanskrit is an official language of the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
  8. There is a report by a NASA scientist that America is creating 6th and 7th generation super computers based on Sanskrit language. Project deadline is 2025 for 6th generation and 2034 for 7th generation computer. After this there will be a revolution all over the world to learn Sanskrit.
  9. The language is rich in most advanced science, contained in their books called Vedas, Upanishads, Shruti, Smriti, Puranas, Mahabharata, Ramayana etc. (Ref: Russian State University, NASA etc. NASA possesses 60,000 palm leaf manuscripts, which they are studying.)
  10. Learning of Sanskrit improves brain functioning. Students start getting better marks in other subjects like Mathematics, Science etc., which some people find difficult. It enhances the memory power. James Junior School, London, has made Sanskrit compulsory. Students of this school are among the toppers year after year. This has been followed by some schools in Ireland also.
  11. Research has shown that the phonetics of this language has roots in various energy points of the body and reading, speaking or reciting Sanskrit stimulates these points and raises the energy levels, whereby resistance against illnesses, relaxation to mind and reduction of stress are achieved.

  12. Sanskrit is the only language, which uses all the nerves of the tongue. By its pronunciation, energy points in the body are activated that causes the blood circulation to improve. This, coupled with the enhanced brain functioning and higher energy levels, ensures better health. Blood Pressure, diabetes, cholesterol etc. are controlled. (Ref: American Hindu University after constant study)
  13. There are reports that Russians, Germans and Americans are actively doing research on Hindu’s sacred books and are producing them back to the world in their name. Seventeen countries around the world have a University or two to study Sanskrit to gain technological advantages.
  14. Surprisingly, it is not just a language. Sanskrit is the primordial conduit between Human Thought and the Soul; Physics and Metaphysics; Subtle and Gross; Culture and Art; Nature and its Author; Created and the Creator.
  15. Sanskrit is the scholarly language of 3 major World religions – Hinduism, Buddhism (along with Pali) and Jainism (second to Prakrit).
  16. Today, there are a handful of Indian villages (in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh) where Sanskrit is still spoken as the main language. For example in the village of Mathur in Karnataka, more than 90% of the population knows Sanskrit. Mathur/Mattur is a village 10 kms from Shimoga speaks Sanskrit on daily basis (day-to-day communication).
  17. Even a Sanskrit daily newspaper exists! Sudharma, published out of Mysore, has been running since 1970 and is now available online as an e-paper (sudharma.epapertoday.com)!
  18. The best type of calendar being used is hindu calendar(as the new year starts with the geological change of the solar system)
    ref: german state university
  19. The UK is presently researching on a defence system based on Hindu’s shri chakra.
  20. Another interesting fact about Sanskrit language was that the process of introducing new words into the language continued for a long period until it was stopped by the great grammarian Panini who wrote an entire grammar for the language laying down rules for the derivation of each and every word in Sanskrit and disallowed the introducing of new words by giving a full list of Roots and Nouns. Even after Panini, some changes occur which were regularised by Vararuchi and finally by Patanjali. Any infringement of the rules as laid down by Patanjali was regarded as a grammatical error and hence the Sanskrit Language has remained in same without any change from the date of Patanjali (about 250 B.C.) up to this day.
  21. The Sanskrit language also, like the literature collected in it, falls into two major divisions:
    (1) The Vedic Sanskrit and
    (2) The Classical Sanskrit.
    Within the Vedic language itself, various stages of development can be found. After undergoing several changes the vedic language finally merged itself into the classical Sanskrit. Though there is much dissimilarity between the Vedic and Classical Sanskrit, the phonetic conditions are almost the same. As regards the difference, many old words are lost and new words have come in. Certain words have changed their meaning and new derivations have been introduced. Differences can be noticed in grammatical forms too.

  22. The Vedic Period which lasted from 4000 or 3000 B.C and the Classical Period which had its beginning around 600 B.C., went concurrently with the last stage of the Vedic Period and practically ended at about 1100 A.D. In a sense, it can be said that the Classical period as extended up to modern times ever since many works in almost all branches of learning have been written even after 1100 A.D up to this day though these are mostly in the form of explanation and criticism of the earlier works.
  23. Sanskrit is the only language in the world that exists since millions of years. Millions of languages that emerged from Sanskrit are dead and millions will come but Sanskrit will remain eternal. It is truly language of Bhagwan.


http://haribhakt.com/stunning-facts...ent-world-and-programming-language-of-future/

 
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Sir, with due respect, do you know Sanskrit? If no, have you taken pains to study such a glorious language?
 
Points 9 & 10 are incorrect. Sanskrit is a sister language of the Dravidian languages. Sanskrit is spoken like Dravidian, & is agreed by all linguistic researchers. Sanskrit was only preserved in South India for 1000s of yrs, & propagated by the South Indian kings all over south east asia. All the oral chants, written texts of Sanskrit including Raja Bhoja's texts were found only in South India !!.
 
Noted Tamil writer and Sahitya Akademi award winner Joe D’ Cruz on Sanskrit

Noted Tamil writer and Sahitya Akademi award winner Joe D’ Cruz on Sanskrit

Noted Tamil writer and Sahitya Akademi award winner, Joe D’ Cruz, on Friday charged that people have been “misguided for 60 years” about Sanskrit and had been kept away from learning it.


Speaking at the inauguration of the three-day ‘ Samskrit for Samanya’ , a conference at the Meenakshi College for Women here that seeks to take the language to the common people, Mr. D’Cruz asserted that Sanskrit was the window to India’s culture.


“Where is the great knowledge, culture of this country? We have been taken away from it,” he said.


The writer said there was a notion that Sanskrit was the preserve of the higher echelons of the society and it was the language of the Hindu texts. “But I must tell you it is great literature. You will find our heritage, culture through it,” Mr. D’Cruz pointed out.


It was not as though Sanskrit was being taken to a lower level to help the downtrodden access it. Rather, he said, it had always been a language of everyone and gave examples of Vyasa, Valmiki and Kalidasa and their great contribution to literature.


“Unless we know our history, how will we progress,” he asked.


Mr. D’Cruz had run into controversy last year due to his open support to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Lok Sabha elections. The writer is also the president of the Samskrita Bharati, Uttara Tamil Nadu.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities...d-on-sanskrit-for-60-years/article7643813.ece

 
I feel Sanskrit will become more acceptable to everyone the day we learn to accept it as a language and not give it too much of a Divine status.

I have studied Sanskrit and read it daily..yes..its very perfected in its structure something I enjoy when I read it.

Its a science yet it is expressed as an art.

Knowing that yet I prefer not to imagine its Divine.

Just like Love..its a play of hormones yet some claim its Deiviga Kadhal.

Likewise..a language is a language..just that Sanskrit is near perfect..certainly not divine.

BTW Sanskrit language does not have the letter F or Z.

So if these both letters can be pronounced by the human vocal apparatus why is it absent in Sanskrit?

That itself shows Sanskrit is just a language that evolved over time....otherwise it would have had all types of sounds.
 
I feel Sanskrit will become more acceptable to everyone the day we learn to accept it as a language and not give it too much of a Divine status.

I agree with you, madam.
In their zeal to propagate the greatness of Sanskrit the proponents go down to any lengths.
Yesterday I went to the Sanskrit Sammelanam in Chennai. There was a bookstall and exhibition. There were many bill-boards each highlighting the various aspects of Sanskrit. Among these there was one which claimed that there is a reference to Ramayana in Thirukkural. It quoted the Thirukkural
மலர்மிசை ஏகினான் மாணடி சேர்ந்தார் நிலமிசை நீடு வாழ்வார் and said that மலர் means aeroplane and ஏகினான் means one who traveled by it, that is Rama, who came back to Ayodhya by means of Pushpaka Vimana! I felt amused. This exhibit was produced by no less a scholarly institution than Shastra University.
Another exhibit says that வாலறிவன் refers to Hanuman!
At the seminar, Dr.Kannan of Shastra University who spoke very well quoting profusely from Sanskrit literature. He was not given sufficient time to give out his full. Other speakers spoke eloquently on the greatness of Sanskrit but it was apparent that none knew Sanskrit. It was a typical RSS type of sammelanam which harps on the Bharatiya Samskriti (culture).
 
BTW Sanskrit language does not have the letter F or Z.

Also the ழ் as in தமிழ் is not available in sanskrit . But does not make it any lesser language . I feel the disinterest in Sanskrit is basically due to lack of proper teachers who know the art of teaching Sanskrit in an interesting way . Ofcourse Samskrit Bharati is taking lot of steps to address this issue and does have a good group of dedicated teachers but not all have the capacity to teach in an inspiring manner .
 
Also the ழ் as in தமிழ் is not available in sanskrit . .

Dear Sir,

The retroflex ழ் exist in Sanskrit too.

The 1st verse of the Rigveda contains it.

अग्निमीळे पुरोहितं यज्ञस्य देवं रत्वीजम |
होतारं रत्नधातमम || Rig Veda 1.001.01

agnimīḷe purohitaṃ yajñasya devaṃ ṛtvījam |
hotāraṃ ratnadhātamam || Rig Veda 1.001.01

agnimīḷe (अग्निमीळे) here uses the retroflex letter.
 
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The retroflex ழ் exist in Sanskrit too.

The 1st verse of the Rigveda contains it.

Yes once Kanchi Paramacharya also pointed out the same but in that case how will you write தமிழ் in Sanskrit ?
 
Yes once Kanchi Paramacharya also pointed out the same but in that case how will you write தமிழ் in Sanskrit ?

By using the retroflex letter as the end of the word and put an oblique line below that to denote ழ்...seen this so many times in Sanskrit magazines when they write the word தமிழ்
in Devanagari script.
 
By using the retroflex letter as the end of the word and put an oblique line below that to denote ழ்...seen this so many times in Sanskrit magazines when they write the word தமிழ்
in Devanagari script.

Ok Thanks for the same will look for the words that end with ழ் in future .Usually I find that Tamizh is written as Tamil in Sasnkrit / Hindi /English and that seems to be the accepted norm .
 
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Ok Thanks for the same will look for the words that end with ழ் in future .Usually I find that Tamizh is written as Tamil in Sasnkrit / Hindi /English and that seems to be the accepted norm .


The ळ has undergone changes even in the Vedas.

The rig and the sama veda still have ळ but other vedas have gradually replaced the ळ with a ड and this changes has been followed up even in other Sanskrit compositions.

I had written this in forum before in more detail but I can't locate the thread.

For example in Shivaasthakam:

Shivam Shankaram Shambhumishanamide

The last word Shambhumishanamide is an example how ळ got replaced by a ड.

The original unchanged form should be मीळे instead of मीडे
 
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A stunning quote from our culture minister Mahesh Sharma,

I quote
' Culture defines a nation. Time has come to win back our culture from the negative influences of western culture'

He would want indian students to learn hindi and sanskrit before german or spanish.

Hindu epics like ramayana ,mahabharatha and bhagwat gita he opined should be made compulsory in schools.

He would like to fight western cultural pollution like use of old age homes besides adding three generations of women could cook food in the same kitchen in our

culture. Renukaji are you listening? this is specifically quoted for you
 
The ळ has undergone changes even in the Vedas.

The rig and the sama veda still have ळ but other vedas have gradually replaced the ळ with a ड and this changes has been followed up even in other Sanskrit compositions.

I had written this in forum before in more detail but I can't locate the thread.

For example in Shivaasthakam:

Shivam Shankaram Shambhumishanamide

The last word Shambhumishanamide is an example how ळ got replaced by a ड.

The original unchanged form should be मीळे instead of मीडे

I think it is not मीळे but ईळे; the original or paiSAci was supposed to be ईळ् हे. This became ईडे later on. In any case the Tamizh ழ் and ள் are available only in Tamil and Malayalam, both originated from one source.
 
One of the main problem is popularising Sanskrit is a throw back to caste segregation and gender discrimination and even secular (non religious) literature is too full of them.
 
A stunning quote from our culture minister Mahesh Sharma,

I quote
' Culture defines a nation. Time has come to win back our culture from the negative influences of western culture'

He would want indian students to learn hindi and sanskrit before german or spanish.

Hindu epics like ramayana ,mahabharatha and bhagwat gita he opined should be made compulsory in schools.

He would like to fight western cultural pollution like use of old age homes besides adding three generations of women could cook food in the same kitchen in our

culture. Renukaji are you listening? this is specifically quoted for you

Saw this on Twitter in response to the minister's culture quote

Our culture minister who wants to root out western influence, runs modern 8-hospital chain. No Ayurveda offered. Son went to Oxford.
 
I think Sanskrit should be made available as optional language for students to study starting from middle/high schools for ALL students irrespective of caste/creed/race/gender.

It is not sacred or divine language but a highly refined language. Therefore it can help with development of many skills of processing information for students.

Some of the people I consult to learn from, for questions about Sanskrit verses, happen to be Americans who started learning the language as an adult. They have developed immense appreciation for the language.
 
I think Sanskrit should be made available as optional language for students to study starting from middle/high schools for ALL students irrespective of caste/creed/race/gender. ...........
Dear TKS Sir,

It IS already available in many schools. Students prefer Sanskrit as the second language because they can score more marks

than in Hindi. The other option is of course French! The pity is that they forget the language after they enter their + 1 class!! :sad:

Some languages and some art forms need a lot of concentration and effort to learn with perfection.
 
Dear TKS Sir,

It IS already available in many schools. Students prefer Sanskrit as the second language because they can score more marks

than in Hindi. The other option is of course French! The pity is that they forget the language after they enter their + 1 class!! :sad:

Some languages and some art forms need a lot of concentration and effort to learn with perfection.

Smt RR,

That reminds me of my own high school days. In fact I studied Sanskrit through 11th grade (schooling was only 11 years, IIT was 5 year program in those days).
Many of us took Sanskrit to secure higher marks which still seem to be true.

On my own accord I studied from 6th through 8th courses in Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan. I just noticed that they have the same set of exams even today (at least the same set of names)

http://www.bvbdelhi.org/sanskrit/school.html

I dont know if children take such exams for certificates.

I took and passed balbodh through Kovid (noted at the website above). I secured barely enough marks in Kovid and got a certificate earning third class marks (it said thritheeya shreni :) ).
Those days the next level was Shastri certification and I dropped it after seeing the third class certificate in Kovid level :)
Plus the jump was huge and there was no one to really teach. I also realized language studies is not for me and decided biology & medicine are just as bad!

My Sanskrit skills are very rudimentary but I have more profound respect for it and have started re-learning.

Anyway I hope children in the middle schools do get exposed to these Bharathiya vidya bhavan programs.
 
The first verse of Rv does not have the sound of ழ. It is written as ட ड and pronounced like ள.
The lack of certain sounds or the presence of some peculiar sounds do not make the language superior of inferior. It is the ability of a language to express various ideas, of day to day life, scientific, philosophical that makes it a good tool. It is the richness of literature that makes it rich.
viewed in this context, Sanskrit does not come upto the level of English which absorbs many new words from all sorts of languages the world over. The words having the same meaning acquire difference of shades. In Sanskrit one can not express minute differences of meaning.

In one aspect, Sanskrit has an upper hand. The use of Samasam, enables one to express a whole story in one word. But in this process the exactness is lost. For example, the combined word दत्तपशुः may refer either to the man who has been gifted a cow or it may also refer to a cow donated by somebody.
Of course Sanskrit has a rich literature. One can learn the language simply to enjoy them.
 
I think it is not मीळे but ईळे; the original or paiSAci was supposed to be ईळ् हे. This became ईडे later on. In any case the Tamizh ழ் and ள் are available only in Tamil and Malayalam, both originated from one source.

Thank you Sangom ji.
 
Those who propagate Sanskrit ( including BJP, RSS and their tail enders in Tamilnadu ) should come forward and arrange to provide substantial scholarship and financial assistance to those who come forward to study Sanskrit.

The teachings should also be a quality oriented one. Not the type that I have studied in college. I studied Sanskrit as second language. I was permitted to write the Sanskrit exam in English with a few quotations in Sanskrit here and there. My knowledge in Sanskrit is next to nothing.Due to non - patronage,Sanskrit has already been a dead language in India, the land of the language.

Those who crossed middle ages and oldies may cherish by chewing some grass here and there.
 
LIVING SANSKRIT ...tamil version MP4

LIVING SANSKRIT ...tamil version MP4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPv7lAw43Y4&feature=youtu.be



Published on Sep 30, 2015
A Documentary about Sanskrit villages ,Hosahalli and Mattur in Karnataka State of India,,,Highlighting the greatness of our ancient language SANSKRIT...A film by Suresh Krishnaswamy of Enkay Visions Chennai,Tamilnadu,India...this is made in tamil language...English version is also available...
 
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