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Sound and Sense are not separated from each other
Sanskrit : A Language of Consciousness
In the last issue I had discussed about the resonating power and the vibrational purity of the Sanskrit sounds which make it a Mantirc language. Sanskrit always starts from a deeper base. It believes that the Sound and…
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The Resonating Power of Sanskrit
Sanskrit : A Language of Consciousness
In the previous article I had discussed about the vastness, versatility, elaborateness and creativity of Sanskrit. There I have mentioned that this Language is a perfect tool for an integral spiritual growth. Indeed, it…
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Introduction
Sanskrit : A Language of Consciousness
Sanskrit, as a language, is extremely elaborate and sophisticated. It embraces variety and richness of experiences covering the entire gamut of human sensitivity and potentiality. It unfolds multiple levels of…
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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…
Gaurav Shah
·8 min read
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No punctuation in Sanskrit ?
Given below is a section from mahAbhArata, where Arjun explains to Krishna his logic of not fighting the war. Apart from the literary, philosophical and poetic content, one thing is starkly conspicuous in this. Where are…
Gaurav Shah
·8 min read
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Verbless Sentences in Sanskrit!
In the last article viz. Similarities between Sanskrit and Programming Languages, we analysed a Sanskrit sentence (again given below for convenience). मूर्खः परिहर्तव्यः प्रत्यक्षः द्विपदः पशुः । which means.. A stupid…
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Similarities between Sanskrit and Programming Languages
In this article, we are going to see how Sanskrit uses programming concepts similar to classes, objects and pointers to shorten the language. To do this, we will try to translate a sample Sanskrit sentence to English and…
Gaurav Shah
·6 min read
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Mechanism of generating new words in Sanskrit
We elucidated in the first article of this series that words in Sanskrit represent properties while words in the other languages represent objects. Well, this is not entirely true. Probably, every language has some words…
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Features of Sanskrit that make it an extra-ordinary language
This is the first of a series of articles explaining what separates out Sanskrit from rest of the languages. This will make you realize how under-developed, regressive and full of redundancies are most of the modern…
Gaurav Shah
·8 min read