SANSKRIT

Oct. 4, 2020

Uttar Pradesh government has started issuing significant press releases, especially the speeches of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, in Sanskrit language, besides English, Hindi and Urdu.

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  • Sanskrit is an Old Indo-Aryan language of the ancient Indian subcontinent with a 3,500-year history.

  • It is the primary sacred language of Hinduism and the predominant language of most works of Hindu philosophy as well as some of the principal texts of Buddhism and Jainism.

  • Modern Sanskrit is traceable to the 2nd millennium BCE in a form known as Vedic Sanskrit, with the Rigveda as the earliest-known composition.

  • A more refined and standardized grammatical form called Classical Sanskrit emerged in the mid-1st millennium BCE with the Aṣṭādhyāyī treatise of Pāṇini.

  • Sanskrit is one of the 22 languages listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India.

  • In the 2011 Census of India, 24,821 Indians out of about 1.21 billion reported Sanskrit to be their mother tongue.

  • In modern times, the first Sanskrit University was Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, established in 1791 in the Indian city of Varanasi.

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