Sanskrit e-Learning is a project we are planning to implement. We are trying to tune our training program with latest academic trends in India and rest of the word. In this article we are discussing issues involved in traditional learning, present classroom learning and e-Learning. As the present classroom learning involves four basic elements – chalk, blackboard, lecturer and students and interaction, traditional Sanskrit learning is based on Gurukula system. Sanskrit is the mother
It was because the Sanskrit theatre was acting-oriented that it made minimum use of dramatic properties. With massive use of prose recitations, chorus, verses and songs the Sanskrit theatre gave greater flexibility to the dramatic speech and provide a multi-level organization of communication between characters. Another form of communication used in the Sanskrit plays is announcements or conversation from the backstage which is known as nepathaya or the use of oracles called akashwanis through which
Role of the Books The sacred books are very important to the Hinduism religion. The sacred books are used for spiritual guidance and practical advice. It helps Hindus to understand their religions through stories. They are encouraged to follow their heroes, like, the story of Ramayana. There are many instructions in the book that teaches how to live and worship the life of Hinduism. The sacred text is treated with great respect. It can’t be put directly on the floor nor touched it with
impact on Hinduism however would not been a success without Sanskrit. During this time Sanskrit was able to completely change the method of communication and along with having influence on the Vedas and Hinduism, Sanskrit, most likely arriving from outside of India encountered Ancient Asia, specifically during the beginning of the Vedic Era, became central to South Asian culture, language and religion by 500 BCE. Other influences of Sanskrit can be observed through culture, language, and belief systems
for his motherland, it is written in the Sanskrit and Bengali language which were his mother tongues. It is essentially a “prayer in which the nation 'Bharat' was described as 'The Mother'”. (Suresh) During the late 1800s, around the time when ‘Vande Mataram’ was written, things had reached their breaking points. The Britishers who had merely come as traders during the 1600s had now established their ‘British Raj’ (Raj essentially comes from the Sanskrit word ‘raja’ which means king) Various factors
For instance, as it can be observed from the poems own title, he uses the word “Saddhu”, which in Sanskrit means “holy man” instead of the English word even though he writes his poem in English. This is an example of an untranslated word. He also uses the process of abrogation by changing the spelling of the word “neither” into “naither” in order to
community’s resistance against foreigners, Al Biruni also elaborates on his personal encounter and approach to those problems. In his language analysis, for instance, he describes the physical difficulty in pronouncing and understanding some of the Sanskrit words as “our tongue and uvula could scarcely pronounce them” and “in order to fix the pronunciation we must change our orthographical points and signs.” From this effort to establish a personalized connection to the reader’s native language and
The words Sanskrit means ‘refined’, ‘sacred’ and ‘sanctified’ (Ratnesh, n.d.). The Vedas, were written in an early form of Sanskrit and now remains called Vedic Sanskrit .It can be classified by the six orthodox heads and four secular heads. The six orthodox sections form the authoritative scriptures of the Hindus. The four secular sections embody the later developments in classical Sanskrit literature. The six scriptures are Srutis, Smritis, Itihasas
Hence if we look at all the Indo Aryan languages, one aspect if quite clear is that they are all derivatives of Sanskrit (Sebeok, 1963) which in turn have their roots set in Greek and Latin and made its way into Indian soil via the Indo-Europeans (Sebeok, 1963). Out of all these Indo Aryan languages, Hindi is considered to be the most progressive, as it is the most analytical followed by Punjabi, Gujarati, Sindhi, Marathi, Bengali, and Oriya (Sebeok, 1963). 2.2.4 Inter-Family Influences No languages
in which the religious poetries were written in was known as the Vedas (Zograf, 1982). Slowly came in the next phase of literary development and came in the language which is considered to be the root of all the Indo-Aryan languages, Sanskrit (Zograf, 1982). Sanskrit covered the whole of the Indo-Aryan linguistic domain (Zograf, 1982). Then as the middle of the 1st millennium B.C. came the middle stage of the Indo-Aryan