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Sanskrit - Language Of The GodsVNNEDITORIAL, Jun 19 (VNN) — Sanskrit is the

common language of the Hindu Scriptures. It is the oldest language in the

world. It is the language of the Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Mahabharata,

Ramayana and the Puranas. Sanskrit literature is easily the richest literature

in the history of mankind. The word Sanskrit literally means "Perfected

Language" or "Language brought to formal perfection". This is quite an

appropriate name since NASA declared it to be "the only unambiguous language on

the planet". Sanskrit is a scientific and systematic language. Its grammar is

perfect and has attracted scholars worldwide.Recently well-known linguists and

computer-scientists have expressed the opinion that Sanskrit is the best

language for use with computers. Sanskrit has a perfect grammar which has been

explained to us by the world's greatest grammarian Panini. Sanskrit is also the

mother of all indo-european languages and the big sister of Greek and Latin. It

is the origin of all the Indian languages. The Sanskrit alphabet is called

"devanagari" and literally means "cities of the gods". Rishis discovered

Sanskrit and used it to create the mantras. These mantras were made up of a

combination of sound vibrations, which when recited had a specific effect on

the mind and the psyche. In the times of the Rishis, the main aim was to attain

the truth, and what better medium than Sanskrit - the perfect tool. Due to its

specificity and purity this seemed the best language with which to understand

God's creation and as such is called "the great spiritual language of the

world" (Joseph Campbell). Until 1100AD Sanskrit was without interruption the

official language of the whole of India. The dominance of Sanskrit is indicated

by the wealth of literature of widely diverse genres including religious and

philosophical, fiction, scientific literature to include mathematics,

linguistics, astronomy, medicine and politics.Max Muller, the great German

scholar (and probably the greatest advocate for Sanskrit in the West) concluded

that without knowledge of Sanskrit a liberal education would hardly be

complete-India being the intellectual and spiritual ancestor of the race,

historically and through Sanskrit.Even in translation the works of Sanskrit

have evoked the supreme admiration of Western poets and philosophers like

Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, Melville, Goethe, Schlegel, and Schopenhauer.Dead

Language? There are at least a dozen periodicals published in Sanskrit,

all-India radio news broadcasts in Sanskrit, television shows and feature

length movies produced in Sanskrit, one village of 3000 inhabitants who

communicate through Sanskrit alone, not to mention countless smaller

intellectual communities throughout India, schools, as well as families where

Sanskrit is fostered. The famous Gayatri Mantra is on the lips of millions of

Indians every morning. Sanskrit is not dead; Sanskrit is alive and well.

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