Svādhyāya: Studying our Holy Books- XI

Languages of Hindu Scriptures: Other Languages In addition to Sanskrit and Tamil, many other Indian as well as non-Indian languages were used for composing Hindu scriptures. For e.g., we have a version of the Brahmāṇda 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...

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...

In honor of Tamil

Eleven years ago this day, the status of ‘classical language’ was granted to Tamil. Although it was a momentous occasion, Tamil does not necessarily need that tag to be cherished as a part of the great national More...