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Sanskrit is the mother of all languages. The influence of this language has directly or indirectly spread to almost all languages of the planet (according to experts, it is about 97%). If you know Sanskrit, you can easily learn any language. The best and most effective algorithms for a computer were created not in English, but in Sanskrit. Scientists in the USA, Germany, and France are developing software for devices that work in Sanskrit. At the end of 2021, several developments will be presented to the world, and some commands, such as "send", "receive", and "forward", will be written in the current Sanskrit.
The ancient Sanskrit language, which transformed the world several centuries ago, will soon become the future language for controlling bots and managing devices. Sanskrit has several main advantages that delight scientists and linguists. Some of them consider it a divine language—it is so pure and euphonious. Sanskrit also reveals some of the secret meanings of the hymns of the Vedas and Puranas—ancient Indian texts in this unique language.
The Vedas, written in Sanskrit, are the oldest in the world. They are believed to have been preserved unchanged in oral tradition for at least 2 million years. Modern scientists date the creation of the Vedas to 1500 BC; that is, "officially," their age is more than 3500 years. They have a maximum interval between the dissemination of oral presentation and written recording, which falls in the 5th century AD.
Sanskrit texts cover a wide range of subjects, from spiritual treatises to literary works (poetry, drama, satire, history, epics, novels), scientific works on mathematics, linguistics, logic, botany, chemistry, and medicine, as well as works on the elucidation of subjects obscure to us—"raising elephants" or even "growing curved bamboo for palanquins." The ancient library of Nalanda contained the largest number of manuscripts on all subjects until it was looted and burned.
Poetry in Sanskrit is amazingly diverse and includes over 100 written and more than 600 oral works.
There are works of great complexity, including works that describe several events at once using wordplay or words that are several lines long.
Sanskrit is the mother of most of Northern India's languages. Even the tendentious pseudo-Aryan invasion theorists who ridiculed the Hindu texts, after studying them, acknowledged the influence of Sanskrit and accepted it as the source of all languages. The Indo-Aryan languages evolved from Middle Indo-Aryan languages, which evolved from Proto-Aryan Sanskrit. Moreover, even the Dravidian languages (Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, and to some extent Tamil), which are not descended from Sanskrit, have borrowed so many words from it that Sanskrit can be called their foster mother.
The word formation process in Sanskrit continued for a long time until the great linguist Panini, who wrote grammar, established the rules for forming each word and compiled a complete list of roots and nouns. After Panini, some changes were made; Vararuchi and Patanjali streamlined them. Any violation of the rules they laid down was considered a grammatical error, so Sanskrit has remained unchanged from the time of Patanjali (c. 250 BCE) to the present day.
For a long time, Sanskrit was used mainly in the oral tradition. Before the advent of printing in India, Sanskrit did not have a single written alphabet. It was written in the local alphabet, which includes more than two dozen fonts. This is also unusual. The reasons for establishing Devanagari as a writing standard are the influence of the Hindi language and the fact that many early Sanskrit texts were printed in Bombay, where Devanagari is the alphabet for the local Marathi language.
Sanskrit has the largest vocabulary of all the world's languages, allowing you to pronounce a sentence with a minimum number of words.
Like all literature written in it, Sanskrit is divided into two large sections: Vedic and classical. The Vedic period, which began in 4000-3000 BC, ended around 1100 AD; classical Sanskrit began in 600 BCE and continues to the present day. Vedic Sanskrit merged with classical Sanskrit over time. However, there remains a considerable difference between them, although the phonetics are the same. Many old words were lost, and many new ones appeared. Some meanings of words changed, and new phrases arose.
Sanskrit's sphere of influence spread in all directions of Southeast Asia (now Laos, Cambodia, and other countries) without the use of military action or violent measures on the part of India.
Surprisingly, the attention paid to Sanskrit in India (the study of grammar, phonetics, etc.) up until the 20th century came from outside. The success of modern comparative linguistics, the history of linguistics, and, ultimately, linguistics in general has its origins in the fascination with Sanskrit of Western scholars such as A.N. Chomsky and P. Kiparsky.
Sanskrit is the learned language of Hinduism, Buddhism (along with Pali), and Jainism (second only to Prakrit). It is hardly a dead language: Sanskrit literature continues to thrive with novels, short stories, essays, and epic poems written in the language. In the last 100 years, its authors have been awarded several literary prizes, including the venerable Jnanpith in 2006. Sanskrit is the official language of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Today, there are several Indian villages (in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Karnataka, and Uttar Pradesh) where the language is still spoken. For example, in Mathur in Karnataka, over 90% of the population knows Sanskrit.
There are even newspapers in Sanskrit! Sudharma, printed in Mysore, has been in print since 1970 and now has an electronic version.
About 30 million ancient Sanskrit texts exist worldwide, 7 million in India. This means there are more texts in this language than Roman and Greek texts combined. Unfortunately, most have not been catalogued, so much work is needed to digitize, translate, and systematize the existing manuscripts.
The Sanskrit numerical system is called katapayadi. It assigns a specific number to each letter of the alphabet; this is the same principle underlying the ASCII table. An interesting fact is given in Drunvalo Melchizedek's book, The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life. In the shloka (verse), the translation of which is: "Oh Lord Krishna, anointed with the yogurt of the worship of the milkmaids, Oh savior of the fallen, Oh Lord of Shiva, protect me!", after applying katapayadi, the number 0.3141592653589793238462643383279 was obtained. If you multiply it by 10, you get the number pi accurate to the thirty-first digit! The probability of a simple coincidence of such a series of numbers is too unlikely.
Sanskrit enriches science, transmitting knowledge in books like the Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, Mahabharata, Ramayana, and others. For this purpose, it is studied at NASA, which has 60,000 palm leaves with manuscripts. NASA has declared Sanskrit to be "the only unambiguous spoken language on the planet" suitable for computers. Forbes magazine expressed the same idea back in July 1987: "Sanskrit is the language most suitable for computers."
NASA has presented a report stating that America is creating 6th and 7th generation computers based on Sanskrit. The completion date for the 6th generation project is 2025, and the 7th generation project is 2034. After that, a boom in Sanskrit studies is expected around the world.
In seventeen countries around the world, universities study Sanskrit for technological knowledge. In particular, in the UK, a defense system based on the Indian Sri Chakra is being studied.
Interesting fact: studying Sanskrit improves mental activity and memory. Students who have mastered this language begin to understand mathematics and other exact sciences better and get higher grades. James Jr. School in London introduced Sanskrit as a compulsory subject for its students, after which they began studying better. Some schools in Ireland followed this example.
Research has shown that Sanskrit phonetics are connected to the body's energy points. Hence, reading or pronouncing Sanskrit words stimulates them, increasing the entire body's energy, thereby increasing resistance to disease, relaxing the mind, and relieving stress. In addition, Sanskrit is the only language that engages all the nerve endings in the tongue; when pronouncing words, the overall blood supply improves and, as a result, the brain's functioning. This improves health in general, as reported by the American Hindu University.
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