The evolution of the human race as pointed
out by Darwin’s theory stated human beings evolved from monkeys/apes. For the
sake of survival, they gradually evolved to discover fire, tools to hunt,
learned to cultivate lands and thus ensure their own survival. After the need
to satiate themselves. The human beings went towards building a society realizing
the interdependence on each other, thereby classifying work according to the
expertise and profession, needless to say, the basic necessity of procreation
was also drawn along this convenience to maintain order and balance. Then at a
time when mouths and aspirations grew, they ventured outside to survive from
trade and commerce, bringing in vices like envy out of inadequacy. Along this
time the importance of nature and its resources were felt deeply through its
cyclical occurrences of events, in its impetus and benisons, which led the
human beings to revere them as sources of power or Gods. This belief was passed
on to generations through verses recorded or orally passed on to generations
from the expert community of priests who lived on the practice of puja through
chants and study of religious scriptures as commandments of the holy. The study
and puja were done through the language of Sanskrit which was developed-
“Sanskrit
Literature began with the spoken or sung literature of the Vedas from c. 1500
BCE, and continued with the oral tradition of the Sanskrit Epics of Iron Age
India, the period after the Bronze Age began, around 1200 BCE. At approximately
1000 BCE, Vedic Sanskrit began the transition from a first language to the
second language of religion and learning.
Around 500
BCE, the ancient scholar Panini standardized the grammar of Vedic Sanskrit,
including 3,959 rules of syntax, semantics, and morphology (the study of words
and how they are formed and relate to each other).
Panini’s Astadhyayi is the most important of the surviving texts
of Vyakarana, the linguistic analysis of Sanskrit, consisting of eight
chapters laying out his rules and their sources. Through this standardization,
Panini helped create what is now known as Classical Sanskrit.”
The
importance of Sanskrit can be cogitated from the links given below: -
Not
that, since the westerners incline towards this language it should make us
interested, but the very fact all of us know in spite of our limited
knowledge of Hindu religion limited to the ever and anon ostentatious occasions
of religious prodding, that the Vedas, the text which reveals so much about
everything from the start of the evolution, having its history older than
history itself is written in Sanskrit, and us having connatural existentialism
with it should be able to fathom its grandeur.
Sanskrit
studies and research, along the lines of the madrasah system of education-which
yields no benefit, at least in seeming history, and serious doubts of it ever
becoming one.
But unlike the madrasah system of education,
including a formally recognized education system encouraging the study of the
Sanskrit language, research of puranic texts, should be encouraged by the
government. A Research and Development Ministry to undertake to encourage such
development and research work should be thought of by the Government, the
sooner the better.
To
conclude as a bit of information in case you want to learn the Sanskrit language by
yourself can go through the below link: -
