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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.
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. [121]
This painting in a Jain temple features a religious teaching in Sanskrit: अहिंसा परमो धर्मः, romanized: ahimsā paramo dharmah, lit. 'non-violence is the highest dharma.'. The respect for animal rights in Jainism, Hinduism, and Buddhism derives from the doctrine of ahimsa. [1] [2]
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 ...
The two major Sanskrit epics, the Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyaṇa, however, were composed in a range of oral storytelling registers called Epic Sanskrit which was used in northern India between 400 BCE and 300 CE, and roughly contemporary with classical Sanskrit. In the following centuries, Sanskrit became tradition-bound, stopped being ...
Munda linguist Gregory D. Anderson states: "It is surprising that nothing in the way of quotations from a Munda language turned up in (the hundreds and hundreds of) Sanskrit and middle-Indo-Aryan or "Indic" texts. [note 1] There is also a surprising lack of borrowings of names of plants/animal/bird, and so forth into Sanskrit (Zide and Zide ...
Sanskrit as one of official languages of India. [1] Sanskrit revival, attempts at reviving the Sanskrit language. [2] [3] Non-educational institutions across the world with Sanskrit mottos; Renaming of cities in India to Sanskrit origin, for decolonisation. [4] Symbolic usage of Sanskrit; Sanskrit Wikipedia, launched in 2011. [5]