Sanskrit

The Original

Language of the

Vedas
More Intellectual
 It is said that humans were more
physical and intellectual than those
of today.
 People were known to remember
everything by just hearing it once.
 This would soon come to an end.
Kali-yuga: “Age of Quarrel”
 All good qualities  Their memory
of life and memory began to fade.
were becoming
lost.  Something had to
be done to
 Their life span preserve their
decreased. knowledge.
Srila Vyasadeva
 About 5000 years ago he recorded the presently
existing Vedic language.
 They were recorded in four vedas:
1. Rig-veda
2. Sama-veda
3. Yajur-veda
4. Artharva-veda
 He also composed Upanisads, Puranas, and the
Mahabharata.
 These were not new findings but rather what
they knew only put in writing.
Four Books of the Vedas
 Each book is divided into four sections
1. Samhitas: contain the mantras and
hymns
2. Brahmanas: ritualistic teachings
3. Aranyakas: meditational section
4. Upanishads: mystic and philosophical
section, known as Vedanta, or end of
the Vedas
Panini
 Was a successful grammarian who
preserved the devanagari language.

 Since this time it has been called

Sanskrit or “joined together,
refined.”
The Original Language
 Sanskrit is the original language of the
Vedas.
 The Vedic form of Sanskrit is the close
descendent of Proto-Indo-European, the
reconstructed root of all later Indo-
European languages.
 It is regarded as one of the great original
cultural languages of this planet.
Close Relationships
 The relationship between Sanskrit
and modern European languages
and the classical Greek and Latin are
seen in mother and matr or father
and pitr
 Also found between Sanskrit and
Persian for the term ‘land’,
translated in Sanskrit-sthaan and
Persian-staan