What Is Sanskreet Options

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Hi Friends,



My classmate is from Burma.......he showed me his language's writing........the alphabet..........he said that it came from Sanskret.........i used to think that Sanskreet is Hindu Religion's Holy book.........now i wonder if it's a peice of litrature......or?........plz do share ur knowledge.........



thank u

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mandy, i don't say these theories are wrong or just because they want to prove their supremacy.
i have no hard feeling against them but see the asian people or indian subcontinent or middle east,
they just take it granted that all those scientific discoveries are the truth and nothing but the truth.
why so ? many of them don't even analyse or read them properly.

no mandy, not every western people is like that. there are many who don't believe in aryan invasion
theory. in 1808 german scholar friedrich schlegel postulated that india is the source of the orginal language,
i think he meant "indo-european" languages which include "indo-iranian" languages too.

french scholar françois-marie arouet(voiltaire) said "It does not behove us, who were only savages
and barbarians when these Indian and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their
antiquity."
in 1790, linguistic william jones accepted the kinship of sanskrit with other european languages. to which
he says "both sanskrit and european languages have a common source which no longer exists".
i doubt on him here. he doesn't want to accept that sanskrit may be the source of all the languages,
but he can't prove that other european languages are the source of sanskrit because it may not be
logical. so he proposed his own theory just to deny the supremacy of sanskrit.
otherwise why should i accept that there is a common souce of these languages ? in fact it can be proved
that sanskrit is much older. i think voiltaire was not satisfied by jones' theory, that's why he said that line.
don't think i am adamant but i don't see enough logic to believe in what william jones said.

in some old iranian sacred texts, the battles in rig-veda are described. so scholars feel aryan came
from europe and middle east. why can't it happen that there were transportations of many kinds say
langauge, culture, science. so at that time they all knew about neighbouring countries ???
ofcourse it is a true fact that in centuries bc and also in medeval ages, arabian and people from middle
east came to indian subcontinent, stayed here. during that time, there was a tranfer of all kinds of skills
that's how a part of scientific knowledge and other technology tranfered to middle east and from them to
europe. (if u know the concept of zero(0) was tranfered from india to arab first and then to europe, may
be this is the reason why many european still believe zero was discovered by arabian scholars) ...

but there's no proof that whethere this was happened in thousands of years ago or not.
main problem is in civilizations like sumerian they have found written informations date back to 3100 bc,
whereas vedic knowledge was believed to have been transfered from generations to generations hence
no written info, so no one can support if there was no aryan invasion.

lol! I have deleted my posts. The debate has turned more into taunts and sarcasms than any useful
discussion. The topic is closed from my side...

Oh by the way Mandrake, I didn't realize that you were just joking about Dravidian invasion theory ...
(duh! on my part).

taunts and sarcasms ? no man, i don't see. if you are talking about jokes by mandy then i guess this is
because he feels people just believe in such theories without even analysing the facts. and western
people don't want accept if india is the souce of there langauges. so they propose theories like that.
if you are talking about my posts, then it is just because i don't want to be so conventional ...

recent archeological discoveries has allowed scepticism at these theories: "harappa, mahenjo-daro,
mehrgarh" are just few examples. only problem is no text document is found. so all those we have
been reading from school days like aryan invasion, veda/sanskrit is not pure indian ...
or whatsoever are still believed and read. so let's analyse and increase our domain of knowledge,
the conclusion can be anything. let's stop taunts and sarcasms.

[Ummer]

mandy, i don't say these theories are wrong or just because they want to prove their supremacy.
i have no hard feeling against them but see the asian people or indian subcontinent or middle east,
they just take it granted that all those scientific discoveries are the truth and nothing but the truth.
why so ? many of them don't even analyse or read them properly.

Nature,

The results which I posted were not about Aryan Invasion, sorry if I gave that impression. It is about the mixing of populations and people moving or migrating from one place to another (recent to distant past). It included the genetic tests on smaller ethnic groups like Makranis, Parsis, Hunzas, Kalashas and many others.