Sanskrit

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Sanskrit

• The Original
• Language of the
• Vedas

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More Intellectual

• It is said that humans were more physical and
  intellectual than those of today.
• People were known to remember everything by just
  hearing it once.
• This would soon come to an end.

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Kali-yuga Age of Quarrel

• All good qualities of life and memory were
  becoming lost.
• Their life span decreased.

• Their memory began to fade.
• Something had to be done to preserve their
  knowledge.

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Srila Vyasadeva

• About 5000 years ago he recorded the presently
  existing Vedic language.
• They were recorded in four vedas
• Rig-veda
• Sama-veda
• Yajur-veda
• Artharva-veda
• He also composed Upanisads, Puranas, and the
  Mahabharata.
• These were not new findings but rather what they
  knew only put in writing.

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Four Books of the Vedas

• Each book is divided into four sections
• Samhitas contain the mantras and hymns
• Brahmanas ritualistic teachings
• Aranyakas meditational section
• Upanishads mystic and philosophical section,
  known as Vedanta, or end of the Vedas

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Panini

• Was a successful grammarian who preserved the
  devanagari language.
• Since this time it has been called Sanskrit or
  joined together, refined.

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The Original Language

• Sanskrit is the original language of the Vedas.
• The Vedic form of Sanskrit is the close
  descendent of Proto-Indo-European, the
  reconstructed root of all later Indo-European
  languages.
• It is regarded as one of the great original
  cultural languages of this planet.

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Close Relationships

• The relationship between Sanskrit and modern
  European languages and the classical Greek and
  Latin are seen in mother and matr or father and
  pitr
• Also found between Sanskrit and Persian for the
  term land, translated in Sanskrit-sthaan and
  Persian-staan