Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Origin of Sanskrit language- Some tips


The world language means any system of communication or any system for transferring information from one party to another. It is told that “Panini” was the founder of grammar of Sanskrit language during 400 BC. Perhaps prior to it there was verbal exchange of Sanskrit words. History & research speak that the language of Sanskrit has been derived from the word “Sam-Skar” means to “put together, compose, arrange, and prepare”.  It is also the ancient sacred language of India. Further, Sanskrit mean “perfected” “refined” or polished as ascertained from different sources of my study and research. It can be accredited to the Vedic society. Sanskrit writings or old Sanskrit script can be found in different palmed leaves. It was also the languages of King. In mythological stories, you can find Sanskrit scripts also. Mystic tradition says that it is the language of god. Vedic Sanskrit is believed to the date back to the second millennium BC, and before introduction of its script, this was told verbally. So, it might be the oldest language of the India or other countries, what I believe. Sir William Jones, a British Judge noted that Sanskrit possessed vocabulary and grammatical structures very similar to may other languages including Greek, Latin, and even English. But it is difficult to know the origin of the above language also. In my thought as per the sound (voice) of humans, an art was prepared and that specific art was regarded as script of a specific language. The Sanskrit grammar of “Panini” during 400 BC (as world history speaks) was known as “Ashtadhyayi”.  The “Ashtadhyayi” consist of eight chapters and each chapter has been divided into four sections, or’ padas’. This characterizes the difference between the language of the sacred texts and that of common street language. 3,959 rules of Sanskrit morphology have been set out, much in the way of a mathematical function, to define the basic elements of the language including sentence structure, vowels, consonants, nouns, and verbs. The work of               ” Panini” is still used in the teaching of Sanskrit today.