SANSKRIT FEVER GRIPS GERMANY

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mana bhaasha ki manam ettagu viluva ivvalekapoyaam...kaneesam ere desam odaina dhaanini gurthinchinanduku santhoshinchaka constipation vachchina kodi maadiri ee expressions endhi compiqqu...

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mana bhaasha ki manam ettagu viluva ivvalekapoyaam...kaneesam ere desam odaina dhaanini gurthinchinanduku santhoshinchaka constipation vachchina kodi maadiri ee expressions endhi compiqqu...

daatargoru .. online classes kaani emaina nerpiste cheppandi...

 

Padhdhatiga nerchukundamu manamu

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daatargoru .. online classes kaani emaina nerpiste cheppandi...

 

Padhdhatiga nerchukundamu manamu

 

inka ee vayasulo manam nerchukunedhi emi ledhu rao garu.....Indian schools llo compulsory language ga teach chesthe (not like we do in Intermediate as a scoring subject)  kaneesam mana pillalu, bavishyatthu tharalanna nerchukuntaaru...

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manollu thappa andharu nerchukuntunnaru... asalu aa britishollu mana temples lo pattukupoina vedaalu.. upanishaththulu lo enni marmaalu daagi unnayo... vaatini veliki theesedhi evado...

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Learn Sanskrit in  London

In the heart of London , a British school has made Sanskrit compulsory subject for its junior division because it helps students grasp math, science and other languages better.

“This is the most perfect and logical language in the world, the only one that is not named after the people who speak it.  Indeed the word itself means ‘perfected language.” – Warwick Jessup, Head, Head, Sanskrit department

“The Devnagri script and spoken Sanskrit are two of the best ways for a child to overcome stiffness of fingers and the tongue,” says Moss.  “Today’s European languages do not use many parts of the tongue and mouth while speaking or many finger movements while writing, whereas Sanskrit helps immensely to develop cerebral dexterity through its phonetics.”

(source: London School Makes Sanskrit Compulsory - indianrealist.wordpress.com).

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Rao garu...Here are some of the good links, if you are interested

 

To Learn Sanskrit visit these sites:

Samskrita Bharati 
http://samskritabharati.in/
http://www.samskritabharatiusa.org/

Sanskrit Tutor 
http://www.concentric.net/~sanskrit/tutor/tutor.html

Sanskrit Academy 
http://www.samskrtam.org/

Sanskrit Software Catalog 
http://www.gy.com/www/cat1/sa_cat.htm

Sanskrit Learning Tools 
ftp://jaguar.cs.utah.edu/private/sanskrit/index.html

The Sanskrit Heritage Site - This site does not provide just a Sanskrit dictionary (where meanings are in French), but rather a comprehensive set of tools for Sanskrit processing: declension and conjugation engines, sandhi processor, and a segmenter/tagger/parser which analyses simple sentences and computes their shallow syntax. No understanding of French is required for using these tools. 

http://sanskrit.inria.fr:80/

American Sanskrit Institute
http://www.americansanskrit.com

(For more refer to Electronic Panini - http://sanskrit.gde.to/all_pdf/aShTAdhyAyI.pdf
and Sanskrit Learning Tools -  http://sanskrit.gde.to/learning_tools/learning_tools.html and A Software on Sanskrit Grammar based on Panini's Sutras -http://www.taralabalu.org/panini/greetings.htm).

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Indians in Israel-led study on Sanskrit poetry

Jerusalem: Two Indian experts are part of an ambitious Israel-led project to chart the literary evolution of two millennia of Sanskrit poetry, or 'kavya'.

"Since the discovery of Indian poetry by Western scholars in the 18th century, several histories have been written, but the story of Sanskrit's poetic evolution remains largely untold," said H.V. Nagaraja Rao of the International Sanskrit Research Centre at Mysore University. 

"We have only a very rudimentary idea of major thematic shifts and stylistic breakthroughs of the 'mahakavya' tradition that held sway in the golden era of Indian literature between the first and 12th centuries -- epitomised in the works of the famous fourth century Indian poet and playwright Kalidasa," Rao told IANS.

"Our aim is to map the crucial social milieu of historic moments when innovative literary fashions were created, or when poets deviated from their predecessors to break new paths in 'kavya'," he said.

Rao is a Sanskrit grammar expert and is currently a research fellow at the Hebrew University's Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem. Rao is one of the 14 renowned Sanskrit scholars taking issue with the notion that 'kavya' poetic forms did not change through the centuries.

(source: Indians in Israel-led study on Sanskrit poetry - newindpress.com).

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First Chinese Sanskrit Pop Singer

Sa Dingding, who won the BBC Radio 3 Award for World Music in the Asia Pacific category in 2008, is being promoted as the first Chinese Sanskrit Pop Singer by China 's official media. She is being promoted by the provincial government of Tibet and if she garners enough attention she might sing at the inauguration of the May 2010 Shanghai World Expo, which is expected to draw the top business firms

She is the first pop singer who sings in Sanskrit. She is also famous for her ethnic clothes and Tibetan Buddhist style of music. Although she is famous for her ethnic characteristics clothing and Tibetan Buddhist music, she is not a Tibetan girl. Her parents' ancestral home is Shandongprovince and her grandmother's ancestral home is Inner Mongolia .

Only people who can endure loneliness can be successful. As a musician, she dropped fame and learned Sanskrit by herself. She visited all the Chinese cultural sites to find inspiration and to derive affluent nutrition for her music. Her musical inspirations all come from Chinese civilization and culture. 

Apparently, the local government is pushing her to give up song writing and singing in languages other than Sanskrit so she can be presented to the world as a symbol of China 's rich cultural heritage. "It is possible China may be trying to show that Sanskrit is part of its cultural heritage. What better way to draw world attention than to get a lovely voice to sing pop?," a Shanghai based expert on Chinese culture told TNN.

(source: First Chinese Sanskrit Pop Singer - hinduismtoday.com).

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Why Study Sanskrit?  

 

“Language is the distillation of hundreds, if not thousands of years of experience of a collective... So when the language disappears you're really throwing away that whole library of knowledge.’

                                                                    - Rachel Nez, Navajo speaker

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Sanskrit, is earliest of the ancient languages. 
 
There is sufficient evidence available today to say that Sanskrit is the oldest language of the world.  
 
Among the current languages which possess a hoary antiquity like Latin or Greek, Sanskrit is the only language which has retained its pristine purity. It has maintained its structure and vocabulary even today as it was in the past.  
 
The oldest literature of the world, the Vedas, the Puranas and the Ithihasas which relate to the Indian subcontinent, are still available in the same form as they were known from the very beginning. There are many many scholars in India who can interpret them today, much the same way great scholars of India did years ago. Such interpretation comes not by merely studying earlier known interpretations but through a steady process of assimilation of knowledge linking a variety of disciplines via Sanskrit.  

Sanskrit is as modern as any language can be  
 
Sanskrit is very much a spoken language today. Even now, as we enter the twenty first century, Sanskrit is spoken by an increasing number of people, thankfully many of them young. Among the learned in India , it continues to be a bridge across different states where people, in spite of their own mother tongue, use it to exchange scholarly and even general information relating to the traditions of the country. The News service offered by the Government of India through television and radio continues to feature daily Sanskrit program catering to local as well as international news.  
 
The grammar of Sanskrit has attracted scholars world over. It is very precise and upto date and remains well defined even today. Of late, several persons have expressed the opinion that Sanskrit is the best language for use with computers. The Samskritapriyah group does not subscribe to this view however.  
 
Sanskrit is a Scientist's paradise 
 
Sanskrit, the vocabulary of which is derived from root syllables, is ideal for coining new scientific and technological terms. The need to borrow words or special scientific terms does not arise.   
 
From the very beginning, scientific principles have been hidden in the verses found in the Vedas, Upanishads and the great epics of India . Concepts and principles seen in present day mathematics and astronomy, are all hidden in the compositions and treatises of many early scholars of the country. Some of these principles and concepts will be shown in the information section that will accompany the lessons.   

Sanskrit, a language for Humanity  
 
Sanskrit is a language for humanity and not merely a means for communication within a society. The oldest surviving literature of the world, viz. the Vedas, encompass knowledge in virtually every sphere of human activity. The fact that many profound principles relating to human existence were given expression through Sanskrit, continue to amaze those who study Sanskrit. A Sanskrit Scholar understands the world better than most others.   

Massive, yet precise   
 
One can learn Sanskrit purely for the sake of the great epics of India . The Ramayana has 24,000 verses fully in metre and the Mahabharata qualifies as the world's largest epic with 100,000 verses. The Mahabharata says, "what is here may be elsewhere, what is not here is nowhere." The precision with which the verses convey information on so many different aspects of life in a society, is a factor one must reckon as the ultimate in composition.

(source: Why Study Sanskrit?).

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mana bhaasha ki manam ettagu viluva ivvalekapoyaam...kaneesam ere desam odaina dhaanini gurthinchinanduku santhoshinchaka constipation vachchina kodi maadiri ee expressions endhi compiqqu...

ee uppara sodi cheppukovataaniki baane untadi le,.. reality ne 

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ee uppara sodi cheppukovataaniki baane untadi le,.. reality ne 

 

ee uppara sodhi cheppukovatam manaki ettagu alavaatu aiyyina pane......appudappudanna isumantivi inta unte chevulaki pattina thuppu vadhiliddi...

 

Sir William Jones (1746-1794) came to India as a judge of the Supreme Court at Calcutta. He pioneered Sanskrit studies. His admiration for Indian thought and culture was almost limitless. He observed as long ago as 1784:  

 

" The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either: yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all without believing them to have sprung from some common source which perhaps no longer exists..." 

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Will Durant (1885-1981) American eminent historian, would like the West to learn from India, tolerance and gentleness and love for all living things:

He has noted in his book, The Case for India:

"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 emModied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy.

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Rao garu...Here are some of the good links, if you are interested

 

To Learn Sanskrit visit these sites:

 

Samskrita Bharati 

http://samskritabharati.in/

http://www.samskritabharatiusa.org/

Sanskrit Tutor 

http://www.concentric.net/~sanskrit/tutor/tutor.html

 

Sanskrit Academy 

http://www.samskrtam.org/

 

Sanskrit Software Catalog 

http://www.gy.com/www/cat1/sa_cat.htm

 

Sanskrit Learning Tools 

ftp://jaguar.cs.utah.edu/private/sanskrit/index.html

The Sanskrit Heritage Site - This site does not provide just a Sanskrit dictionary (where meanings are in French), but rather a comprehensive set of tools for Sanskrit processing: declension and conjugation engines, sandhi processor, and a segmenter/tagger/parser which analyses simple sentences and computes their shallow syntax. No understanding of French is required for using these tools. 

 

http://sanskrit.inria.fr:80/

American Sanskrit Institute

http://www.americansanskrit.com

(For more refer to Electronic Panini - http://sanskrit.gde.to/all_pdf/aShTAdhyAyI.pdf

and Sanskrit Learning Tools -  http://sanskrit.gde.to/learning_tools/learning_tools.html and A Software on Sanskrit Grammar based on Panini's Sutras -http://www.taralabalu.org/panini/greetings.htm).

Thanks datar goru... meeru nijamga devidu saami

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ivala sanskrit meeda paddaru annamaata

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"than" ane padam vadileyyatam better,.. manam ila prathi daaniki "than" comparitive degree vaadithe anavasaram ga egos tappa emi results undavu,.. emantaavu 

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mother of all languages ani antunnaru,.. ala ani mana daggara proofs unnaya 

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Dr. Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya (1880 -1959) Pattabhi graduated from the prestigious Madras Christian College fulfilled his ambition to become a medical practitioner by securing a M.B.C.M. degree. He started his practice as a doctor in the coastal town of Machilipatnam, headquarters of Krishna District and the political centre of Andhra. He left his lucrative practice to join the freedom fighting movement. Serving on the Congress Working Committee when Quit India was launched in 1942, Pattabhi was arrested with the entire committee and incarcerated for three years without outside contact in the fort in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra. During this time he maintained a detailed diary of day-to-day life during imprisonment, which was published later as Feathers and Stones.

He remarked that:  

“Sanskrit can no longer be regarded as a dead language. Sanskrit remains dead today because it is neglected. To us in South India I do not see how we shall stand to lose by recognizing Sanskrit as the national language”. 

(source: Sanskrit as a national language - by R Das).

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Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) most original philosopher of modern India. Education in England gave him a wide introduction to the culture of ancient, or mediaeval and of modern Europe. He was described by Romain Rolland as ' the completest synthesis of the East and the West.'  He was a great Indian sage and 20th century poet philosopher.

No one has expressed this more eloquently than him when he wrote:

 "The Ancient and classical creations of the Sanskrit tongue both in quality and in body and abundance of excellence, in their potent originality and force and beauty, in their substance and art and structure, in grandeur and justice and charm of speech and in the height and width of the reach of their spirit stand very evidently in the front rank among the world's  great literatures."

The language itself, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect and wonderfully sufficient literary instruments developed by the human mind, at once majestic and sweet and flexible, strong and clearly-formed and full and vibrant and subtle, and its quality and character would be of itself a sufficient evidence of the character and quality of the race whose mind it expressed and the culture of which it was the reflecting medium.'

(source: The Foundations of Indian Culture - By Sri Aurobindo  p. 255-256).

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Professor A. L. Basham, taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. 

He has noted in his book The Wonder That Was India:

 

"Though its fame is much restricted by its specialized nature, there is no doubt that Panini's grammar is one of the greatest intellectual achievements of any ancient civilization, and the most detailed and scientific grammar composed before the 19th century in any part of the world."

(source: The Wonder That Was India - By A. L. Basham p. 390).

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Alain Danielou (1907-1994) founded the Institute for Comparative Music Studies in Berlin and Venice, author of several books on the religion, history, and art of India.  He said:

"Sanskrit is constructed like geometry and follows a rigorous logic. It is theoretically possible to explain the meaning of the words according to the combined sense of the relative letters, syllables and roots. Sanskrit has no meanings by connotations and consequently does not age. Panini's language is in no way different from that of Hindu scholars conferring in Sanskrit today." 

(source: Virtue, Success, Pleasure, Liberation - By Alain Danielou p. 17).

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Albrecht Weber (1825-1901) author of History of Indian Literature, wrote: 

 

"Panini's grammar is distinguished above all similar works of other countries partly by its thoroughly exhaustive investigation of the roots of the language, and the formation of words; partly by its sharp precision of expression, which indicates with an enigmatical succinctness whether forms come under the same or different rules. This is rendered possible by the employment of an algebraic terminology of arbitrary contrivance, the several parts of which stand to each other in the closest harmony, and which, by the very fact of its sufficing for all the phenomena which the language presents, bespeaks at once the marvelous ingenuity of its inventor, and his profound penetration of the entire material of the language."

(source: Civilization Through the Ages - By P. N. Bose p. 136).

 

Arthur A. Macdonell (1854-1930) author of History of Sanskrit Literature has remarked:

 

"The Sanskrit grammarians of India were the first to analyze word forms, to recognize the difference between root and suffix, to determine the functions of suffixes and on the whole to elaborate a grammatical system so accurate and complete as to be unparalleled in any other country."

(source: Main Currents in Indian Culture - By S. Natarajan p. 100 and India's Past - By A A Macdonell p. 123).

 

Horace Hyman Wilson (1786-1860) says: "The Hindus had a copious and a cultivated language." 

"The Sanskrit," says Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeran (1760-1842) writes in Historical Researches vol. II p. 109-110,  "we can safely assert to be one of the richest and most refined of any. It has, moreover, reached a high degree of cultivation, and the richness of its philosophy is no way inferior to its poetic beauties, as it presents us with an abundance of technical terms to express the most abstract ideas."

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Sir John Woodroffe aka Arthur Avalon (1865-1936) the well known scholar, Advocate-General of Bengal and sometime Legal Member of the Government of India. He served with competence for eighteen years and in 1915 officiated as Chief Justice. 

 

He wondered why Sanskrit was not taught in British India:

 

“As regard the first point I am told that in an Indian University even Sanskrit is taught in English which means that only those who know the latter tongue can learn the classic language of event their own country. To me this seems an absurdity…In the same institution a European Sanskrit grammar is prescribed, the production of which was paid for at a larger price than would be offered to any Indian. Who offered it? Not the English. The Indian cannot I suppose write a grammar. Yet India has Panini, Patanjali, Patanjali’s Mahabhasya, Supadma, Kalapa, the Vakyapadiya, Bhopadeva, Sangkshiptasara, Siddantakaumudi, Laghukaumudi, amongst the ancient, while the Vyakarana Kaumudi, Upakramanika of Ishvara Chandra Vidyasagara, and the Ashubodha of Taranatha Vachaspati head the moderns. How is it that all these have been displaced? A distinguished European Sanskritist once aksed me where I had learned Sanskrit, but that I had been and was still learning Sanskrit in this country. “Oh what a pity,” he said, “Why” I asked? “They cannot teach Sanskrit in this country: they have no system.” He replied. I laughed. “They cannot teach Sanskrit in this country.” – the country of Panini the founder of the science of language, the greatest grammarian the world had known, and of innumerable pandits, men of real learning, few though men of the highest attainment now be. How has Sanskrit learning come down to us today if no one has been able to teach it?

(source: Bharata Shakti – Collection of Addresses on Indian Culture - By Sir John Woodroffe - Ganesh & co. Madras1921 p. xix xx).

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vammo deeni kanna avunu ani oppesukunte poye la undi ga

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vammo deeni kanna avunu ani oppesukunte poye la undi ga

 

nuvvu oppukunna oppukokapoyina oodedhi emi ledhu ani eppudu thelusukuntaav burning star...

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nuvvu oppukunna oppukokapoyina oodedhi emi ledhu ani eppudu thelusukuntaav burning star...

meelanti vallu oppukunte anni oodipothaaya aithe 

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meelanti vallu oppukunte anni oodipothaaya aithe 

 

nenu oppukunte emanna oodathaayi ani eppudanna seppana.

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nenu oppukunte emanna oodathaayi ani eppudanna seppana.

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