Sunday, March 11, 2007

Perfection of Sanskrit

"Sanskrit is the greatest language of the world” said Max Muller. Sri Aurobindo said “Sanskrit language, as has been universally recognised by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent literary instrument developed by the human mind”.
These are only a few mentions of the innumerable glories of the wonder language Sanskrit sung by people throughout the world and through the ages. It is difficult to recite all the praises of Sanskrit that people in India and abroad have sung. Because of the great height of Sanskrit, people generally desist from making a comparison of Sanskrit with any other language whether Indian or alien. But whenever there is a comparison, Sanskrit is always placed at an exceptionally high place in comparison to other languages. For example Prof. Boop, a great scholar, making a comparison of Sanskrit with Greek and Latin said “It (Sanskrit) is more perfect and copious than Greek and Latin”. Sir William Jones while referring to the perfection of Sanskrit said “We (Europeans) are still behind in making even our alphabet a perfect one”.
Organiser Home > 2007 Issues > March 18, 2007 Reaction: Insult of the wonder language - Modern day mandarins scoff at Sanskrit even as they promote Persian, Urdu and Arabic By Dr. Indulata Das

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