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Gaurav Shah
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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…
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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…
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The building blocks of the Sanskrit language
In the second article of the series viz. Mechanism of generating new words in Sanskrit, we saw how new words can be generated using dhAtus. In this article, we shall see how virtually everything in Sanskrit can be broken…
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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…
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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…
