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 ...
The term “Sanskrit” was not thought of as a specific language set apart from other languages, but rather as a particularly refined or perfected manner of speaking. Knowledge of Sanskrit was a marker of social class and educational attainment in ancient India and the language was taught mainly...
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...
This system of enumeration one, two, many, where many means more than two manifests throughout the grammar, and indeed throughout the systems of thought expressed in Sanskrit, for it re ects the natural evolution of creation. The prolonged measure occurs in Vedic Sanskrit but is rare in ...
Then they thought that these Aryans probably would have had an original homeland, and hence was born the Aryan urheimat idea. And so they started frantically looking for the homeland which they assumed that the supposed Aryans (whom they'd invented) would have had. Thereafter they were also...
This new arrangement of the Sanskrit Alphabet already has been published (Go to Essentials section and click on Alphabet var.), but I thought that it would be convenient to include it here. If you want to learn how to pronounce the letters properly, go to Pronunciation 1:...
The term "Sanskrit" was not thought of as a specific language set apart from other languages, but rather as a particularly refined or perfected manner of speaking. Knowledge of Sanskrit was a marker of social class and educational attainment in ancient India and the language was taught mainly ...
them to conquer whole continents in a time when even small cities did not exist. Far more credible, he argues, is that Proto-Indo-Europeans spread with the expansion of agriculture – a scenario that is also thought to have occurred across the Pacific, Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa....
‘thought’ stands for what is intended to be conveyed. That intention is instinctive (prathibha) and immediate; and, it does not involve stages such as: analysis, speculation, drawing inferences and so on. At the level ofPashyanti Vak, there is no distinction between word and meaning. And...
thought he had introduced a 'fast' ternm in a spiritual context. But the author retorts that the force of the original Kannada is reflected only in this English 'albeit' colloquialism. My 2c, Lakshmi Srinivas Ambujam Raman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...