Sanskrit Language: The Most Scientific, Ancient, Spiritual

[LaBong]

yada yada hi dharmasya glanirbhavati bharatah abhiyuthanam adharmasya tadatmanam srajayay aham....

Its a well known excerpt from Bhagvad geeta which translates to

Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion--at that time I descend Myself.

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sanskrit is also known as the perfect language as its grammer is complete and is also termed as the best language for the computer systems.....

Dharma is not same as religious practise.

 

[divya]

Dharma is not same as religious practise.

yeah but its loosely translated.... in fact there is no proper translation for the word religon in sanskrit...

dharma is more related to ones duties...

 

[Swati Shukla]

see, i was a student of kendriya vidyalaya(Proud of that), so we use to have compulsary sanskrit from 6th-8th. sanskrit is the worlds oldest and the most beautiful language. sanskrit is said to be mother of all languages. english also owes a lot to sanskrit.

 

[Roybot]

I can read and write Sanskrit

 

[sid426]

I had sanskrit in school which was ICSE/ISC affiliated ..but heck!!.. pathati, pathata, pathanti..thats all i remember!!

 

[sid426]

List of Sanskrit words of Indian origin

List of English words of Sanskrit origin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[riCoh]

I had sanskrit in school which was ICSE/ISC affiliated ..but heck!!.. pathati, pathata, pathanti..thats all i remember!!

Pathati pathata pathanti
pathasi pathath pathathah
pathami pathavah pathamah

 

[true_indian]

Here is a piece that details what great scientists of the world thought of Sanskrit, Vedas and Hinduism in general.

What is India?

 

[BlueDot_in_Space]

yada yada hi dharmasya glanirbhavati bharatah abhiyuthanam adharmasya tadatmanam srajayay aham....

Its a well known excerpt from Bhagvad geeta which translates to

Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion--at that time I descend Myself.

---------- Post added at 12:01 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:00 PM ----------

sanskrit is also known as the perfect language as its grammer is complete and is also termed as the best language for the computer systems.....

Its not religious practices. At that time dharm was more like duties, like Raj dharm was to take care of the praja. Dharm never meant to define a religious practices, but now thanks to westerners we use it that way.

 

[KS]

Pathati pathata pathanti
pathasi pathath pathathah
pathami pathavah pathamah

What is the meaning of this tongue-twister ?

For trivia there is one such in Tamil too - Thupaarku thuppaya thuppaki thupparku thuppaya thoovum Mazhai.

Now let me see anyone tell this fast

 

[BlueDot_in_Space]

Sanskrit & Artificial Intelligence — Knowledge Representation in Sanskrit and Artificial Intelligence
By: Rick Briggs, Roacs, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, California
[THE AI MAGAZINE Spring, 1985 #39]

Abstract: In the past twenty years, much time, effort, and money has been expended on designing an unambiguous representation of natural languages to make them accessible to computer processing. These efforts have centered around creating schemata designed to parallel logical relations with relations expressed by the syntax and semantics of natural languages, which are clearly cumbersome and ambiguous in their function as vehicles for the transmission of logical data. Understandably, there is a widespread belief that natural languages are unsuitable for the transmission of many ideas that artificial languages can render with great precision and mathematical rigor.
But this dichotomy, which has served as a premise underlying much work in the areas of linguistics and artificial intelligence, is a false one. There is at least one language, Sanskrit, which for the duration of almost 1000 years was a living spoken language with a considerable literature of its own. Besides works of literary value, there was a long philosophical and grammatical tradition that has continued to exist with undiminished vigor until the present century. Among the accomplishments of the grammarians can be reckoned a method for paraphrasing Sanskrit in a manner that is identical not only in essence but in form with current work in Artificial Intelligence. This article demonstrates that a natural language can serve as an artificial language also, and that much work in AI has been reinventing a wheel millenia old.

Full paper: http://www.mandir.ws/Mandir Files/Pictures/Sanskrit.pdf

 

[jha]

What is the meaning of this tongue-twister ?

For trivia there is one such in Tamil too - Thupaarku thuppaya thuppaki thupparku thuppaya thoovum Mazhai.

Now let me see anyone tell this fast

Thats not a tongue twister..Those are the roops (types/shapes ) which a Dhatu ( loosely verb ) takes in Lat lakaar ( present tense ).. There are other lakkars also in Dhatu roop in parasmaipada ..there is atmanai pada also..

As divya said..A complete language with a complete grammar...

BTW i used to top in class Sanskrit...for which my family background is mainly responsible..

 

[KS]

Thats not a tongue twister..Those are the roops (types/shapes ) which a Dhatu ( loosely verb ) takes in Lat lakaar ( present tense ).. There are other lakkars also in Dhatu roop in parasmaipada ..there is atmanai pada also..

As divya said..A complete language with a complete grammar...

BTW i used to top in class Sanskrit...for which my family background is mainly responsible..

I did not understand a word you said

 

[jha]

I did not understand a word you said

You are not expected to..

Its like Write- Wrote- Written although in much more detailed fashion ..

 

[KS]

You are not expected to..

Its like Write- Wrote- Written although in much more detailed fashion ..

Oh.....Now I can understand why no one is using it today.

But can you people versed in Classical Sanskrit read the Vedic Sanskrit also ? ...I've heard they are different.