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Temporal order of words in Sanskrit
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- The Sanskrit Series
- 1. Features of Sanskrit that make it an extra-ordinary language
- 2. Mechanism of generating new words in Sanskrit
- 3. Similarities between Sanskrit and Programming Languages
- 4. Verbless sentences in Sanskrit
- 5. The building blocks of Sanskrit language
- 6. No punctuation in Sanskrit !!
- 7. The flexibility of Sanskrit
- 8. Efficiency of Sanskrit: Less words more meaning!
- 9. Temporal order of words in Sanskrit
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This is one of the valuable site which gives rich information about Sanskrit. Thanks for keeping it up and would like to see more articles on the topics.
This another great blog and impressed alot with your work shri Gaurav Shah. I want to state a website here which is useful as your blog. If it is already known to you, apologies from me. It is shrivedabharathi.in.
This was created by Dr. Avadhaanulu who is a doctorate in vedas, sanskrit, memaamsa e.t.c. He is preserving and propogating our sanskrit, vedas and vedic maths. He is making audio recordings of vedas. This organisation is funded by central government and foriegn members. His work is great and one should see it. If you see it useful, it may be useful for your blog I think so. Incase found any wrong please forgive me.
Thanks for the info, sir.
Mr.Shah, How is it possible to interact through emails and phone, there is a project that i like to discuss with you related to broadcasting all this information and much more. My email is priyankacreationz@gmail.com
Waiting to hear from you
Hare Krishna
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Hi.. could you please throw light on the use of the colon ( : ) after a word in Sanskrit. What does it signify? And can it be used for every noun? For instance, God?
Thanks
This colon is called “visarga”. The rules for usage of the visarga can be found in ashtadhyayi, but they are very complex and can’t be explained on a blog. But you can still use the visarga correctly, if you memorize all the vibhaktis and lakaars. Note that the visarga does NOT signify any particular thing. it is just like, say, the vowel ‘e’. Does the usage of the vowel ‘e’ in a word signify anything ? Similarly, the usage of visarga also does not signify anything, but to use it correctly you need to know the rules of grammar, just as to use ‘e’, you need to know correct spellings.
One of the advantages that I have heard are that pronouncing visarg makes you do a bit of Kapalbhati Pranayam every time. If you are speaking in sanskrit you will end up doing kapalbhati without even knowing it. The benefits of the pranayam are very well known and this goes to further demonstrate how sanskrit is meant to be a real language not just meant for communication but also cleansing, healing and keeping one focused, along with much more.
Having said that, I have observed, most people pronounce the visarga in a wrong way (and hence do not do kapalbhati). They pronounce रामः as रामह. But the fact is that visarga cannot be replaced by any other letter. It has an altogether independent pronunciation. (which of course, I can not write here.)
Hello!
I cannot find the article saying “English is a curse to Indians” which I read few months back
Can you mail me the article or provide me the link if its on siite?
thanks a lot.
sorry for delay in replying. Here’s the link.