24/11/2014
Sanskrit as a third language should be strongly supported against German language
The Three Language Formula suggested Hindi, English and the regional language for non-Hindi speaking students. The whole idea was to force ‘national integration’, Whether that did so is questionable, but certainly introducing German (or French or Chinese or Japanese) would be unlikely to do any ‘national integration’. So ipso facto the idea of bringing in German is against the law, because German is not a regional language in India.
Sanskrit, originating as Vedic Sanskrit is a philosophical language in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, and a literary language that was in use as alingua franca(a bridge language, trade language, or vehicular language) in Greater India.
Vedas from which Hinduism originated was written in Sanskrit.
Sanskrit continues to be widely used as a ceremonial language in Hindu religious rituals and Buddhist practice in the forms of hymns and mantras.
Sanskrit has seen a significant revival in Mainland China, with musicians such as Sa Dingding writing pop songs in Sanskrit
Practitioners of yoga in the east or West, find the Sanskrit language useful in understanding the Yoga Sutra.
In Nepal, India and Indonesia, Sanskrit phrases are widely used as mottoes for various national, educational and social organisations.
The earliest attested Sanskrit texts are Brahmanical texts of the Rigveda, which date to the mid-to-late second millennium BCE. No written records from such an early period survive, if ever existed.
St James Junior School in London, England offers Sanskrit as part of the curriculum.[46] In the United States, since September 2009, high school students have been able to receive credits as Independent Study or towards Foreign Language requirements by studying Sanskrit, as part of the "SAFL: Samskritam as a Foreign Language" program.
European scholarship in Sanskrit, begun by Heinrich Roth (1620 – 1668) and Johann Ernst Hanxleden (1681 – 1731) is regarded as responsible for the discovery of the Indo-European language family by Sir William Jones. This scholarship played an important role in the development of Western philology, or historical linguistics.
Analysis of Sanskrit is similar to Semantic network theory and it may be suitable for Knowledge representation as well as an artificial language for computers.
So why shouldn't Sanskrit be made the third language?
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