Academic Discourse
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 2

Sanskrit: The Repository of our Mother Tongue and Scriptures

  • Author:
  • Rajbir Singh
  • Total Page Count: 7
  • Page Number: 8 to 14

Financial Consultant (Retd.), G.O.I., Min. of Def. Formerly Executive Officer (Supply), Washington, D.C., USA

Online published on 6 January, 2016.

Abstract

It is a matter of great pride that this unique language Sanskrit had its primary source in India. The word Sanskrit literally means "completely created ’, and hence it is of the divine origin. This fact is also corroborated by divine revelation of Vedas in Sanskrit. The fifty letters comprising its alphabetical structure, each one carrying specific and clearly phonetic sound emanating between throat and lips, correspond to the fifty numbers of petals on six divine centres on human spine. Its script is called Devnagri which again has divine connotation, meaning the city of Gods. Sanskrit is a golden key for India's ancient civilization and has been peoples ’language right from advent of mankind until a few centuries BC. Thereafter its neglect began. It is now called a dead language, but fortunately some recent genuine efforts towards its revival are very encouraging. Hopefully Sanskrit will regain its past glory in the coming time.

Keywords

Petals, revival, relativity, intensity, pecuniary, infatuated, dictum, dialect, conjecture, fluency