Sanskrit

India has been a mother land to many cultures and sects. This is the same land where Buddha was born and spread all his wisdom and sayings. It is the land from where Hinduism derived its roots and its very essence. Over the years, India has seen many a religions surrecting, many a kings rising, many a kingdoms falling .It is truly a land of multiple cultures and has an enriched past that embattles in itself the cultural diversity of a lot of different backgrounds. The true indicator of this cultural diversity of India is the host of different languages that are prevalent in various parts of the country. It is said about India that traveling every one square kilometer in India, you observe a change in the taste of water as well as a change in the language or the slang used by the people. India is divided into a number of states, with each state ethnic to a particular culture and type of people. For example, West Bengal is a state ethnic to Bengalis and Bangla is prevalent there. Similarly in Punjab, the residents are called Punjabis.Thus, the influence and the importance of languages in India is so much that the local people of any area are recognized by the language or the dialect they use.

Amongst the wide variety of languages to which India is a home, Sanskrit stands out as one of the most famous and the most important one. This is because it is the root language from which all the other languages have been derived and hence, it is very aptly known as the mother of all languages. The importance of Sanskrit as the root source of languages is not only true for Indian languages, but for the foreign languages as well. Many of the foreign languages derive a lot of their words from the Sanskrit language. For example, words like “trigonometry” and “geometry”, which form the basis of mathematical expression in English ,have in fact been derived from the Sanskrit words having the same meaning- “trignomity” and “geomity”.Similarly,relationship expressing words like “brother” and “mother “ have been derived from their Sanskrit counter parts- “bhratra” and “matra” respectively. Sanskrit is believed to be the language of the gods by Hindus and all the major Hindu scriptures and religious texts are written using the same language. Most important amongst these are Vedas, Upanishads, Geeta etc.It was a language of the courtroom of almost all the Hindu rulers, throughout the Indian history.

In spite of the great history behind the language and its importance in the development of the other Indian languages, Sanskrit language has somewhat lost it’s sheen due to the coming of various other foreign language in India, in the recent times. Sanskrit was always associated with the elite class of India and in the present day, it has been reduced to the stature of a language that is used to recite all the hymns and prayers in the Hindu religion.