A premier Sanskrit* college is looking for contributions to maintain their institute.
A snippet from their email:
Become a life-time member of this prestigious institution and receive publications from this institute free of cost for the life-time. Now when you pay Rs. 2000/- and become a life member - you'll receive about 8 Hard-bound books free of cost - including 4 volumes of Mahabashyam of Sage Patanjali (the great vyaakarana treatise) in Sanskrit with English translation and a Old Sanskrit Bija Ganita (Algebra) treatise Thus your contribution will help to save one of India's premier Sanskrit research institute and also you receive books free of cost.
If you are interested, please reach out to:
Dr. K.S.Balasubramanian, Dy.Director, Kuppuswamy Sastri Research
Institute, Sanskrit College, Mylapore, Chennai. Phone- 044-24985320
or send in your donations directly here: http://madrassanskritcollege.com/donation.html
via M.A. ParthaSarathy & Ranganayaki Srinivas
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit
P.S. If you are interested in protecting other at-risk languages, check out: http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/
http://madrassanskritcollege.com/institutions.html
A snippet from their email:
Become a life-time member of this prestigious institution and receive publications from this institute free of cost for the life-time. Now when you pay Rs. 2000/- and become a life member - you'll receive about 8 Hard-bound books free of cost - including 4 volumes of Mahabashyam of Sage Patanjali (the great vyaakarana treatise) in Sanskrit with English translation and a Old Sanskrit Bija Ganita (Algebra) treatise Thus your contribution will help to save one of India's premier Sanskrit research institute and also you receive books free of cost.
If you are interested, please reach out to:
Dr. K.S.Balasubramanian, Dy.Director, Kuppuswamy Sastri Research
Institute, Sanskrit College, Mylapore, Chennai. Phone- 044-24985320
or send in your donations directly here: http://madrassanskritcollege.com/donation.html
via M.A. ParthaSarathy & Ranganayaki Srinivas
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit
P.S. If you are interested in protecting other at-risk languages, check out: http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/
http://madrassanskritcollege.com/institutions.html
I personally see Sanskrit colleges as being as useful as yeshivas and madrasahs.
ReplyDeleteJoseph Moosman this is more for keeping the language alive and isn't focused on a specific religion. You can find similar initiatives here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit_revival #endangeredlanguages
ReplyDeleteI would love to learn this language, too bad I am so far away from there. Joseph Moosman there are plenty of literary works in Sanskrit, it will be nice to learn it via Sanskrit language. The translations have not done a good job. It is just like Latin. Learning Sanskrit will help to learn other Indian languages. Hinduism seldom ask you to convert they tell you to find it yourself.
ReplyDeleteYes, Pooja Srinivas , I studied Sanskrit as a boy. Not very successfully, but I tried. As long as the funds are privately donated I have no objection, but I do not feel that the Indian state should subsidize. Liturgical languages should not be kept alive as vernaculars by artificial means.
ReplyDeleteChris Veerabadran good points. The comparison between Latin and Sanskrit is sound but no government entity in today's world would consider declaring Latin as an official or scheduled language. Therein the essential difference.
ReplyDeleteJoseph Moosman the government works in mysterious ways. We shouldn't let their actions (good or bad) stop us from doing the right thing :-)
ReplyDeleteJoseph Moosman in this case I don't think they are trying to make it the only official language, if they do so, it will definitely won't work. They are just trying to keep it from disappearing I think.
ReplyDeleteI have studied Sanskrit and it is a beautiful language, very systematic. The rules governing the language as analyzed in Panini's Ashtadhyayi is very close to the fundamental notion of using terminals, non-terminals and production rules of moderm day Computer Science.
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