Sanskrit The Original Language of the Vedas More
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Sanskrit The Original Language of the Vedas
More Intellectual It is said that humans were more physical and intellectual than those of today. n People were known to remember everything by just hearing it once. n This would soon come to an end. n
Kali-yuga: “Age of Quarrel” n n All good qualities of life and memory were becoming lost. Their life span decreased. n Their memory began to fade. n Something had to be done to preserve their knowledge.
Srila Vyasadeva n n 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. About 5000 years ago he recorded the presently existing Vedic language. They were recorded in four vedas: Rig-veda Sama-veda Yajur-veda Artharva-veda He also composed Upanisads, Puranas, and the Mahabharata. These were not new findings but rather what they knew only put in writing.
Four Books of the Vedas n 1. 2. 3. 4. Each book is divided into four sections Samhitas: contain the mantras and hymns Brahmanas: ritualistic teachings Aranyakas: meditational section Upanishads: mystic and philosophical section, known as Vedanta, or end of the Vedas
Panini n Was a successful grammarian who preserved the devanagari language. n Since this time it has been called Sanskrit or “joined together, refined. ”
The Original Language n n n Sanskrit is the original language of the Vedas. The Vedic form of Sanskrit is the close descendent of Proto-Indo-European, the reconstructed root of all later Indo. European languages. It is regarded as one of the great original cultural languages of this planet.
Close Relationships The relationship between Sanskrit and modern European languages and the classical Greek and Latin are seen in mother and matr or father and pitr n Also found between Sanskrit and Persian for the term ‘land’, translated in Sanskrit-sthaan and Persian-staan n
