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OK,lets start over again. This time lets start with a prayer. :emrose:

[video=youtube;F4kdjHFBvd4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4kdjHFBvd4&feature=related[/video]

I read the title as "Sanskrit for Donkeys". :)

So, what is the purpose of this thread?

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So, what is the purpose of this thread?

how about that "joy" thing ?

boca2blr;475636I read the title as "Sanskrit for Donkeys". :)

So, what is the purpose of this thread?

What is the purpose of life ? LOL, we are starting all over again !

I read that the vowel-consonant combination is unique to Sanskrit. As a result, we don't end up with coffee (not with mallu accent) and coke sounding different for the same letters "co". Is that the case?

My kid was wondering what Ptolemy's dad was thinking! He probably had Pteropod's brain! :)

I hope that this thread will be a good discussion.

I studied Sanskrit for 5 years. Was first in chanting Mahabharat shlokas competitions. I like the rhythm of chanting Shlokas in unison because I was culturally conditioned from childhood. But in recent years, my interest is confined to was it really mother of Indian and many other languages or was it refined during AD and why Maharashtri the apabhransha survived as Marathi and whether Bengali/Oriya were derivatives of prakrit or Sanskrit.

I also feel I was handicapped by learning Sanskrit because I could not learn English properly during formative years which could have been more useful to my kids if I was good in English. When I see the English literature my daughter reads, I miss having a stimulating conversation on nuances with her.

Read this blog entry for both for and against debate on if Sankrit is mother or just a finer derivative of natural languages during early A.D.
http://controversialhistory.blogspot.com/2007/09/myth-of-mother-sanskrit-theory.html#.UGXl2q6LItU
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The first inscriptions in Indian history are in Prakrit and not in Sanskrit. These are by the Mauryan King Ashoka (c. 273 BC - 232 BC ), and number over 30. The script utilised is not Devanagari, and the language is not Sanskrit. They are mostly in the Brahmi script, while 2 inscriptions are in Kharoshtri. They are in various Prakrits and some in Afghanistan are in Greek and Aramaic. In fact all inscriptions in India were in Prakrit till the early centuries AD is what the historians say that "[T]he earlier inscriptions up to the 1st century AD, were all in Prakrit"

Can someone please explain the difference between classical sanskrit and vedic sanskrit in simple terms, preferably with examples.