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Sanskrit was a spoken language in the educated and the elite classes, but it was also a language that must have been understood in a wider circle of society because the widely popular folk epics and stories such as the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Bhagavata Purana, the Panchatantra and many other texts are all in the Sanskrit language. [110]
Arthur William Ryder (March 8, 1877 – March 21, 1938) [1] was a professor of Sanskrit at the University of California, Berkeley.He is best known for translating a number of Sanskrit works into English, including the Panchatantra and the Bhagavad Gita.
Sanskrit is taught in many South Asia Studies and/or Linguistics departments in Western universities. In addition to this, it is also used during worship in Hindu temples in the West, being the Hindu liturgical language, and Sanskrit revival attempts are underway amongst expatriate Hindu populations.
5 languages. বাংলা ... Pages in category "American Sanskrit scholars" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not ...
William Jones was born in London; his father William Jones (1675–1749) was a mathematician from Anglesey in Wales, noted for introducing the use of the symbol π.The young William Jones was a linguistic prodigy, who in addition to his native languages English and Welsh, [4] learned Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew and the basics of Chinese writing at an early age. [5]
Sanskrit is one of the 22 official languages in India. [3] In 2010, Uttarakhand became the first state in India to have Sanskrit as its second official language. [4] In 2019, Himachal Pradesh became the second state to have Sanskrit as the second official language. [5] There are 2,360,821 total speakers of Sanskrit in India, as of 2011. [6]
Cultural debates have emerged over how much Sanskrit should appear in Hindi and how acceptable Persian and English influences should be, [32] [33] with Hindu nationalists favouring Sanskritised Hindi, [34] opposing Urdu in part because it is a Muslim-associated language, [35] and some boycotting the Hindi-language Bollywood film industry for ...
This era saw Sanskrit become the predominant language for royal and religious records, documenting donations, public works, and the glorification of rulers. In South India, inscriptions such as those from Nagarjunakonda and Amaravati illustrate early use in Buddhist and Shaivite contexts, transitioning to exclusive Sanskrit use from the 4th ...