The Rāma Story and Sanskrit in Ancient Xinjiang
Most people do not know that until about a thousand years ago, the Tarim Basin (northwest of Tibet, which is the part of Xinjiang below the Tian Shin Mountains) was Indic in culture and it was a thriving part of More...
Svādhyāya: Studying our Holy Books- X
[contextly_sidebar id=”pS1i53O4fkB0nT2nXiYl2Q01imG7yWrv”] Sanskrit: “More Perfect than Greek, More Copius than Latin” Sanskrit was the major language used for liturgy, science, philosophy and literature More...
The Indo-European languages and the relevance of Sanskrit
Introduction Sanskrit along with major European and Iranian languages belongs to a language family known as Indo-European. They all shared a common ancestor thousands of years ago. This reconstructed language is More...
The Magic of Matturu
Mattūru (aka Mattur) is a unique village near Shivamogga, Karnataka on the banks of Tungā. It is notable mainly for being a rare place where one may find a pristine agrahāra still brimming with Sanskrit, Vedic More...
The Death of Proto-Indo-European
In the 19th century, linguists came up with the idea that nearly all modern European languages are descended from an ancestor language called Proto-Indo-European (PIE), which they proposed was spoken prior to about More...
Response to Prof Sheldon Pollock’s interview published in Indian Express
Once again Prof Pollock has courted controversy by touching upon sensitive topics. His interview as published in Indian Express on May 31, 2018 has raised several eyebrows and buffeted social media discussions. More...
Indic Language Families and Indo-European – 2
[contextly_sidebar id=”Bbhqaghf0GR3eKTNY7wybwC50tDymL5z”] Aryan and Dravidian It was Bishop Caldwell (1875) who suggested that the South Indian languages of Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and Telugu formed More...
Indic Language Families and Indo-European – 1
As the science of language, historical linguistics in the early 19th century saw itself as providing a framework for studying the history and relationships of languages in the same manner as biology describes the More...
Śāradā: Identity of Kashmiri Pandits
Kashmir, the Land of Śāradā considered as Sarvajna Peetha (the seat of all Knowledge) has always been the land of Rishis just as it has been the home to scholars in various fields of knowledge. It was even noted More...
సంస్కృతమంటే భయమెవరికి?
గత సంవత్సరం జూన్ మాసంలో అమెరికాలోని ప్రిన్స్ టన్ విశ్వవిద్యాలయంలో ఒక ఆశ్చర్యకరమైన More...