- Sanskrit is the oldest and living language on our planet.
- Sanskrit is a spiritual language and is the language of Divinity; language of gods.
- It is a language of classical literature which is rich and abundant.
- As its name itself explains, it is systematized and perfected. Its alphabets are impeccably arranged. They are easy to remember and help in memorizing textual stanzas.
- Sanskrit literature is unique in its overwhelmingly poetic character.
- Rationality is in everything including the arrangement of its alphabets. It is perfected. The Devanagari script used to write Sanskrit is also complete. Being phonetic, it caneasily be adopted to write any language.
- It is a global language. It has no territory, has no bias; hence has no limitations.
- Sanskrit is a ‘world language’ in the real sense of the term. It hasn’t got local variationsor vernaculars nor dialects nor usages of slang words. Its uniformity owes to this aspect as well.
- It has written rules of grammar, phonetics, etymology and epistemology which are all followed wherever Sanskrit is used. The wonder that this bedrock of Sanskrit grammar, which is, allows its purity to continue no matter however it grows.
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There is infinity in its word-formation possibilities and they are all well-structured,computerized long before the computers came in use.
There is infinity in its word-formation possibilities and they are all well-structured,computerized long before the computers came in use.
- There is a vibration or resonance in the sounds well-expressed in Sanskrit speaking.
- Absolute freedom is in using this language because of “No syntax”. This means that even a beginner can proceed with words as one’s thoughts progress.
- Flexibility or adaptability – Same sentence can be said in a variety of ways.
- Its universality. It can do all functions, – scriptural (holiness), technical (precision and derivative power) and romantic (resourceful and flowery style) but can never be slang.
- Has a very rational derivative power.
- Its economy. Sanskrit letters can be used to write other languages as well.
- Sanskrit words possess a special vibration of sound waves whose resonance is very effective. People use Sanskrit Mantras for healing. They owe this mystic character and holiness to the essential spiritual character of Sanskrit.
- Spirituality has molded into Sanskrit! Hence its name,-perfection to be reached by any word.
By knowing Sanskrit, you are now in touch with a language which is very natural (sound -oriented), rationally developed or systematized in its structure and versatile in its usage even while retaining its purity and uniformity. Its ancient, abundant, full o f variety and everlasting literature passing through the longest period of time has plentiful wonders to offer to those interested in any of them.