Blog Series
The Sanskrit Series
16 posts
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Sanskrit and India’s Self-development
DR.H. MAHESHWARI India can best develop herself and serve humanity by being Herself and following the law of her own nature. Sri Aurobindo Sanskrit is a very special language, India is a very special country and Her…
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Sanskrit
Sanskrit is a language of antiquity. The roots of many languages of the world are found in Sanskrit. It is often called the Mother of languages, Sarvabhasajanani. Tradition tells us that in the Sanskrit language there is…
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Sanskrit as the National Language of India
The Nobel Laureate physicist, Dr. C.V. Raman, believed that Sanskrit was the only language that could be the national language of India. He said, “Sanskrit flows through our blood. It is only Sanskrit that can establish…
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Some Doubts and Questions
Is Sanskrit a Hindu Language? It would be good at this stage to look at some of the objections that have been raised against Sanskrit becoming the national language of India. One argument, which is often used nowadays…
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Sanskrit – a self-existent truth and power
Life is infinite and rich in its possibilities. All language is an attempt to formulate and communicate the variety and richness of experiences covering the entire gamut of human sensitivity and potentiality. These…
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Evaluating Sanskrit
'There are two forms of knowledge of which those who know Brahman have spoken; the higher and the lower'; what in modern terms can be called knowledge and wisdom. It seems to me that the dilemma of man in this nuclear…
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A Call for the Propagation of Sanskrit
Sanskrit is one of the oldest languages of the world. The deeper one goes into it the more amazed one is by the beauty and perfection of this language. Whichever aspect one explores, there seems to be no limits to its…
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Temporal order of words in Sanskrit
In the article Similarities between Sanskrit and Programming Languages, we translated the sentence मूर्खः परिहर्तव्यः प्रत्यक्षः द्विपदः पशुः। There we showed that this sentence conveys the existence of a single person…
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The efficiency of Sanskrit: Less words more meaning!
In this article, we shall see how Sanskrit increases its efficiency by removing unnecessary, good-for-nothing words from a sentence which the other languages are forced to carry just as a host carries parasites with…
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The flexibility of Sanskrit
Did you know, Sanskrit is a highly word-order free language ? What does this mean ? It means that you can take a Sanskrit sentence, jumble its words the way you wish and there is good probability that the resulting…
