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The word is found in the sense of "line of teachers", genealogy and family tree in theShatapatha Brahmana, as well as in Sanskrit grammar text Ashtadhyayi by Pāṇini. [3] A related genre of Indic literature is the Charita, which focuses on individual hagiographies. [4] Vaṃśam appears in other Indic languages in derivative forms, such as ...
The word gurukula is a combination of the Sanskrit words guru ('teacher' or 'master') and kula ('family' or 'home'). [2] [3] The term is also used today to refer to residential monasteries or schools operated by modern gurus. [4] The proper plural of the term is gurukulam, though gurukuls is also used in English and some other European languages.
All modern Indo-Aryan languages, as well as Munda and Dravidian languages have borrowed many words either directly from Sanskrit (tatsama words), or indirectly via middle Indo-Aryan languages (tadbhava words). Words originating in Sanskrit are estimated at roughly fifty percent of the vocabulary of modern Indo-Aryan languages, as well as the ...
They would take on the role of teacher and could be consulted by anyone with sincere queries of a spiritual nature. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Another monastery Kanchi Kamkoti Peeth in south India also derives its establishment and tradition to Adi Shankara, however its heads are called "Acharya" or "Jagadguru" instead of "Shankaracharya".
He was the editor of the Sanskrit monthly magazine Sambhashana Sandesha, for five years. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He is the "Akhil Bharatiya Prashikshan Pramukh" (All-India Chief of Teaching) as well as Prakashana Pramukh (Chief of Publishing) of the organisation Samskrita Bharati , and was on the working committee of the first World Sanskrit Book Fair ...
This is a list of English words of Sanskrit origin. Most of these words were not directly borrowed from Sanskrit. The meaning of some words have changed slightly after being borrowed. Both languages belong to the Indo-European language family and have numerous cognate terms; some examples are "mortal", "mother", "father" and the names of the ...
Sanskrit inherits from Proto-Indo-European the feature of regular in-word, vowel variations known in the context of the parent language as ablaut or more generally apophony. This feature, which can be seen in the English forms sing , sang , sung , and song , themselves a direct continuation of the PIE ablaut, is fundamental [ g ] in Sanskrit ...
In the early oral traditions of the Upanishads, the guru–shishya relationship had evolved into a fundamental component of Hinduism. The term "Upanishad" derives from the Sanskrit words "upa" (near), "ni" (down) and "ṣad" (to sit) — so it means "sitting down near" a spiritual teacher to receive instruction.