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The 'context-free' Samskritam as a great human invention of language, is comparable to binary 0 and 1 used to instruct any artificial computer without ambiguity .
The alphabets of the language are scientifically constructed based on phonetic principles of human language generation.
Samskritam discovered the sound pattern of language based on the location of the vocal system which produces variations in sounds of a language. The sequence of Samskritam alphabets was thus sequentially arranged as velar, palatal, retroflex, dental, labial to pronounce, respectively sounds of: ka, ca, Ta, ta, pa. The anticipation of the structure of human sounds constituting language is more than 7500 years old representing Vedic Sanskrit. Sanskrit is a civilised language and embodies the culture of generations of Bharatiyas in almost all fields of human endeavour -- metallurgy, medicine, music, art, dance, literature, mathematics, chemistry etc., in short, in all disciplines of art, science and technology.
Samskritam discovered the sound pattern of language based on the location of the vocal system which produces variations in sounds of a language. The sequence of Samskritam alphabets was thus sequentially arranged as velar, palatal, retroflex, dental, labial to pronounce, respectively sounds of: ka, ca, Ta, ta, pa. The anticipation of the structure of human sounds constituting language is more than 7500 years old representing Vedic Sanskrit. Sanskrit is a civilised language and embodies the culture of generations of Bharatiyas in almost all fields of human endeavour -- metallurgy, medicine, music, art, dance, literature, mathematics, chemistry etc., in short, in all disciplines of art, science and technology.
Samskritam is a knowledge system vehicle. “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)” ― J. Robert Oppenheimer. That effulgence of a thousand suns has to be rediscovered in Bharatam by nurturing the world heritage, Samskritam.
"Land of religions cradle of human race birthplace of human speech grandmother of legend great grandmother of tradition. The land that men with intellectual bent desire to see and having seen once even by a glimpse would not give that glimpse for the shows of the rest of the globe combined."
:: Mark Twain (1835-1910)
:: Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Kalyanaraman
CRYING WOLF ALL TOO OFTEN
Friday, 28 November 2014 | S Kalyanaraman and Kumar Chellappan | in Oped
The Leftists and the Dravidian parties of Tamil Nadu are opposed to the teaching of Sanskrit and to any activity that promotes our rich cultural history and tradition, write S Kalyanaraman and Kumar Chellappan
Whenever the BJP comes to power, the communist parties and the Dravidian outfits start hollering from rooftops about an impending saffronisation and sanskritisation drive. This time also, the bewildered Left and its cohorts have been telling the world that the Narendra Modi-led Government is on a ‘Hinduisation’ drive all over the country.
The suggestion by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development to State Governments to observe Hindi week, the renaming of Teachers’ Day as Guru Utsav and the decision to replace German language by Sanskrit in Kendriya Vidyalayas, have upset the communists and the Dravidians, for whom anything Indian is anathema.
The Lefts and their comrades from minority communities can never stand Saraswati Vandana, a prayer song rendered in schools. Leaders of the communist parties start abusing the authorities when Saraswati Vandana is sung in schools and colleges. But the comrades do not make any issue when “Oh Jesus, lead us..” is sung in schools run by Christian managements.
Why is there this aversion towards Sanskrit and Hindi on the part of the Lefts, the Left historians and the pseudo-secularists? Though there is a strong anti-Hindi feeling among the Dravida chauvinists in Tamil Nadu, Hindi films run for weeks together in theatres across the State. The patrons who make box-office hits are none other than the Dravida fundamentalists. Many prominent political leaders who are so proud of Mother Tamil, send their children to English-medium schools.
Intelligence experts like Bahukutumbi Raman have cautioned about attempts by some political groups to subvert the cultural heritage of India. What foreign rulers could not accomplish during the last 1,000 years, the Lefts and their acolytes have almost succeeded through the cultural subversion.
A reading of theRamayana in its original form is a scintillating and enlightening experience. The great civilisation in the sub-continent stood for its respect and admiration for women and the infirmity. There were no Dalits or untouchables in this part of the world. Lord Rama told his brother Lakshmana that all human beings are born Sudras. “It is their karma (deeds) which accord them the status of Brahmin and other sub-sections.”
Similarly, theRamayana highlights the respect commanded in the society to modern-day sex workers. At no point of time in the Ramayana, are they classified as sex workers or prostitutes. They were known by the name, Vaari Vadhoo Janam. When King Dasharatha was asked to hold Putrakameshti Yagna to be blessed with children, he preferred Rishyasringa to be the chief priest. Fearing that the sage may not come over to Ayodhya from Anga Rajya, the King deputed a Vaari Vadhoo Janam to plead to the former.
During the celebrations following the birth of Lord Rama and other three children, the Vaari Vadhoo Janam were given equal importance as Ministers and Army commanders. They were special invitees for the coronation of Lord Rama also. This speaks a lot about the privileges enjoyed by Vari Vadhoo Janam in ancient India. The advent of Western civilisation saw them degraded to the level of ‘commercial sex workers’, a term coined by modern-day Leftists and activists.
When Penguin Group, the US based publishing giant, entered into an out-of-court settlement and agreed to withdraw the book, The Hindus: An Alternative History, authored by Ms Wendy Doniger and pulp the copies following a suit filed by Mr Dinanath Batra, an 83-year-old former primary school teacher in Gujarat, the Leftists and other pseudo-intellectuals shouted “cultural fascism”. Ms Doniger had portrayed the Hindus very poorly in the book which she claimed was written after painstaking research. The publishers knew that neither Ms Doniger nor any of her ilk could come out with proof to substantiate the arguments made by her in the book. Mr Batra stood his ground and Penguin opted for the only available legal recourse.
Mr Batra is a Sanskrit scholar. While modern-day scholars with their Western education had to swallow the insults thrown at Hindu society by Ms Doniger, who wrote Hindu history like a drainage inspector’s report, Mr Batra stood like a rock and won his points.
This is the power of Sanskrit. The communists and the so-called liberals who sustain on outdated imported ideology, are afraid of Sanskrit because of its power to expose their worthlessness. No wonder, Meghasandesha, Raghuvansha and Malavikagnimitram, continue to be all-time classics while works by the self-styled Western intellectuals have fallen by the wayside.
The tragedy is that Indian intellectuals themselves are trying to dig graveyards to bury their heritage. A Google search for Rishyasringan throws out hot and steamy scenes from a Malayalam movie of the same name! All works of poets like Kalidasa remain eternal because they were penned in Sanskrit.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the world’s largest space research and exploration centre, has found that Sanskrit is the perfect language for complicated and advanced scientific calculation and computer programming. “Sanskrit is the perfect language designed for enlightened communication. It is the one and only unambiguous spoken language in the world,” Briggs wrote in the 1985 issue of Artificial Intelligence. Last heard, Nasa was insisting its research scientists have a knowledge of Sanskrit.
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