This site attempts to compile documents in Sanskrit along with links to various organizations affiliated with the Indian "thought." There are links to dictionaries, tutorials, processing tools, translations, and audio files which will aid in the learning process. Online guides to Indian languages wit...
calledsaṃskṛtam,"perfected, refined" to distinguish it fromprākṛtamthe "natural, vulgar" speech of ordinary people. Sanskrit thus became a fixed literary language, while Prakrit continued to develop into what are now the modern spoken languages of northern and central India, such as ...
Sanskrit literature not only reflected the entire contradiction of the social and cultural development of the peoples of India in antiquity and the early Middle Ages but also combined aristocratic tendencies with democratic tendencies linked to progressive currents of social thought. It also developed a...
Sanskrit, as defined by Pāṇini, had evolved out of the earlier “Vedic” form. The beginning of Vedic Sanskrit can be traced as early as 1500–1200 BCE (for Rig-vedic and Indo-Aryan superstrate in Mitanni). Scholars often distinguish Vedic Sanskrit and Classical or “Pāṇinian” San...
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics:LanguagesSan‧skrit/ˈsænskrɪt/noun[uncountable]anancientlanguage of IndiaExamples from the CorpusSanskrit•Hinduthought concerning thenatureof time is wellillustratedby the way in whichcausalrelationswere expressed inSanskrit.•This ...
ac.za wikner sktintro.ps600-a4paper-march97 Preface This course of fteen lessons is intended to lift the English-speaking student who knows nothing of Sanskrit, to the level where he can intelligently apply Monier- Williams' dictionary1 and the Dhatu-Pat.ha2 to the study of the ...
The present-day findings in genetics and Indian archaeology and that of the Tarim Basin did put a damper on things, but still - they still have their central linguistic model which by its very nature of non-determinism cannot be disproved (or proved). Because it's not very scientific, it...
Speech was regarded as the verbal expression of a thought that arises in a person’s consciousness.If there is no consciousness, there would be no speech. Speech (Vac) is indeed an outward form of consciousness (chetana). Vac is the word principle that gives expression to the latent or un...
Christopher P Jones, ‘Decoding Reflections: The Meaning of Mirrors in Art’, where the author talks about some important European paintings featuring mirrors, and explains the role and symbolism of the mirror in each painting. After reading it, I thought of the depiction of mirrors in Indian ...
It is a fascinating thing that so many civilizations had a seven-day week and named them after the planets. There is very old evidence of this in both Indian and Northern European cultures. From the root ‘vart’-turn, as each planet was thought to take their turn at ruling a day out...