Make Sanskrit India's National Language

To The Government of India:

This petition is to solicit nationwide support to make Sanskrit National Language of India.

WHY?

  1. Sanskrit is the oldest, most highly evolved language in the world.
  2. Till now, unanimous support from all localities has not been achieved for any single language. Sanskrit, no doubt will be acceptable to all.
  3. Sanskrit carries with it our ancient culture and has the capability to assimilate any level of modernization and advancement.
  4. Major Indian languages are derived from Sanskrit. It should already have been accepted as National Language.
  5. Sanskrit is fundamentally strong in phonetic and grammar.
  6. Sanskrit is purely a scientific language. Every word and character has a definite reason and meaning to it for pronunciation, meaning and formation of new words.
  7. It is easy to learn Sanskrit, as most of the Indians already know the alphabets, as they are already being used in major Indian languages.

ACTIONS REQUIRED:

  1. Declare Sanskrit - the National Language of India.
  2. Make a time-bound plan for Sanskrit literacy taking help of NGO's if required.
  3. Make Sanskrit a compulsory subject for study in Middle and High schools.
  4. Promote Sanskrit to be made an elective subject in schools across the world.

It is high time that we demand all school boards and minority schools to offer Sanskrit as a compulsory language in their school curriculum. Sanskrit will help bring our kids and us closer to India.

Internationally also, we have been seeing the trend... people moving towards eastern culture, now moving deeper into the roots - taking initiation, singing Name, chanting, practicing yoga etc. We see growing interest in these traditional sciences and people living with greater understanding. But, something is missing when they are attracted towards eastern culture. Originality is missing. It is true many a time with the eastern born and brought ups also. They also feel not connected to the root. The missing link can only be connected with the classical language - Sanskrit.

On the onset, it might look impractical to propose an ancient language for acceptance as a National or International language 'for all modes of communication'. But, that cannot be accepted as a sufficient reason to stop us promoting Sanskrit, as it will have long lasting benefits for the generations to come. Every alphabet of Sanskrit carries life in it. It is alive. It implements itself. Very sound of the character implements the deep meaning living in it in the words using them. Sanskrit is not limited to just forming a set of characters to provide a piece of information. It is much more than that. Vedic mathematics, Mantra Yoga etc. are some of the easily graspable benefits that have become popular recently.

Sanskrit is the best language in this world that can assimilate and give us the best of both worlds - ancient world and the modern world.

You can sign the petition at this URL:
http://www.petitiononline.com/sanskrit/petition.html

Comments

Sanskrit is a very simple and used to language , As u all know that our Ramayana is in Sanskrit Language , we are using this language from old days ,
What we can do it for now, we can do atleast

Make Sanskrit a compulsory subject for study in Middle and High schools.

Already define in above para Action item no 3

So that people will know about Sanskrit .

दैनिक जागरण,जालन्धर,4 मई 2001
संस्कृत भाषा पर कुठाराघात किए जाने की निन्दा

पठानकोट 3,मई(संस)। अपने-आप को हिन्दू कहने वाली वर्तमान सरकार ने जिस प्रकार से संस्कृत भाषा पर कुठाराघात किया है वह निन्दनीय है। यह बात महिला कांग्रेस आई की नेता श्रीमती राज डोगरा ने प्रैस को जारी एक बयान में कही। उन्होंने कहा कि केन्द्रीय विद्यालयों में पाँचवी से नवमी तक पहले संस्कृत भाषा अनिवार्य थी परन्तु अब हिन्दूत्व का नारा देने वाली वर्तमान सरकार ने नई नीति तैयार कर दी है जिसके अधीन अब आठवीं कक्षा के बाद की पढ़ाई करने के लिए प्रत्येक विद्यार्थी तीन में से कोई दो विषय चुन सकता है। राजडोगरा ने कहा कि सरकार की इसी नीति के कारण स्थानीय केन्द्रीय विद्यालय नम्बर एक में किसी भी छात्र ने संस्कृत विषय को न चुनकर अन्य दो विषयों को चुना है।

Anal Kumar( अनल कुमार ), Kendriya Vidyalaya No1 Patiala
अम्बेदकरः संस्कृतेन भाषते स्म

सम्भाषण-सन्देश:, जून, 2003 ( e-mail: samskrit@ satyam.net.in)

"भारतस्य राजभाषा संस्कृतं भवेत्" इति संविधानसभायां शोधप्रस्तावः आनीतः आसीत् यस्य प्रस्तावस्य कृते हस्ताक्षरकर्तृषु प्रस्तावमण्डयितॄषु च डा. अम्बेदकरः अपि अन्यतमः आसीत्। संविधानसभायां यदा राजभाषासम्बन्धे चर्चा प्रवर्तते स्म तदा डा. अम्बेदकरः किञ्च पण्डितलक्ष्मीकान्तमैत्रः व परस्परं संस्कृतेन वार्तालापः कृतवन्तौ। तत्सम्बन्धे "आज" इति हिन्दीदिनपत्रिकायां 15 सितम्बर 1949 तमे दिनाङ्के प्रकाशिते प्रकाशिता वार्ता - "डा. अम्बेदकर का संस्कृत में वार्तालाप" इति अस्ति। एषा एव वार्ता प्रयागतः प्रकाश्यायां THE LEADER इति आंग्लपत्रिकायां 13 सितम्बर 1949 तमे दिनाङ्के मुखपृष्‍ठे प्रकाशिता आसीत्। तस्याः शीर्षकम् आसीत् "THEY CONFER IN SANSKRIT" इति। देहल्यां राष्‍ट्रीये अभिलेखागारे शताधिकवर्षेभ्यः सर्वासां पत्रिकाणां समाचारपत्राणां च "मैक्रो फिल्म" कृत्वा संरक्षितवन्तः सन्ति। तानि सर्वाणि दृष्‍ट्वा अस्माभिः बहु अन्वेषणं,गवेषणं च कृत्वा एताः महत्त्वभूताः वार्ताः प्राप्‍ताः।
All India Scheduled Caste Federation इत्यस्य अखिलभारतीय-कार्यकारिसमितेः गोष्‍ठ्यां संस्कृतं राजभाषा भवेत् इति प्रस्तावः पारितः भवेत्,तादृशी अभियाचना करणीया इति डा. भीमराव अम्बेदकरः बहुप्रयत्‍नम् अकरोत्। परं तदा तत्र श्री बि. पि. मौर्यः इत्यादयः युवकार्यकर्तारः तस्य बहु विरोधं कृतवन्तः,सभात्यागस्य घोषणां कृतवन्तः,तदा डा.अम्बेदकरः स्वकीयं प्रस्तावं प्रतिस्वीकृतवान्। अनन्तरं सः तस्मिन् दिने सायङ्काले पत्रकालगोष्‍ठीम् आहूय स्वीयविचारम् उक्‍तवान्।

------ चमू कृष्ण शास्‍त्री ( संस्कृत भारती,माता मन्दिर गली,झण्डे वाला, नई दिल्ली - 55 )

If Sanskrit declared as Official language
MARK Gnanasigamony (Who am I?) Feb 26 2009
RAYAGADA, India

It was the first mistake the Government of India did after Independence. There were two base languages in the whole of India to give birth to several other languages. They are Sanskrit and Tamil. If Sanskrit is the mother of several of the North Indian languages and also a joint mother with Tamil to form Dravidian three other languages, Sanskrit should have become the Official language of India. This should have provided us an unique status and some distance from Pakistan and Bangladesh as their language has the similarity with Hindi and Bangla. We might have kept the secrecy of our correspondences / communication. Now whatever we speak is easily translated / understood by our neighbours even to the level of common villager and vice versa. If Sanskrit had been declared as Official language of India, it should have been equally learned by the whole population. Now one section of India is in an advantageous position as their mother tongue itself is Hindi while the others have to learn ’one more language’. By this wrong decision we not only killed the rich language but also the unity / equality among all states on language issue. It is not very late now. The Government of India can wake up and declare Sanskrit as its National Language as it binds the words spoken by every person in the whole of India.
Anal Kumar( अनल कुमार ), Kendriya Vidyalaya No1 Patiala

I agree with MARK Gnanasigamony

tamil did not give birth to the other south indian languages. All south languages including tamil are derived from an ancient proto-dravidian language,which linguists are currently trying to find more information about. But you are absolutely right about sanskrit being the mother of all north indian/indo aryan languages

Sanskrit will never look like this at all I think it may be a Marathi or so called Hindi.or some other north Indian Language that U have written.The Script may be u have written in Devanagari script that is not at all equal to Sanskrit.try in another way for making fools. Stop making Fools by projecting the script of Devanagari that is equal to sanskrit.if both Hindi and sanskrit has same alphabets than why there is so much different in each of the sentences when you speak out.

akkaranta pulingaha ramaha sabdhaha

Ramah ramaaoh ramah

Tamil fanatics should restrain from calling tamil older than sanskrit.

They should go by reality that Sanskrit is older and richer than any language in this world.

These people should also stop dravidian racism on rest of India.

Sanskrit has all richness to become national language of India.

Tamils(dravidan) do not know the meaning of racism .North indians always underestimate and belittle us.

tamil is the classical language of south indian.

who cares about north indians.

we can prove that Tamil is equal to sanksrit and older than sanskrit

proud to be Tamizhan

I completely agree. We should propose making Sanskrit the sole National Language. And Hindi should be banished from Official use. This is the perfect argument against those wild-eyed Hindi fanatics who want to destroy other cultures. What could be more Indian than Sanskrit ? Sanskrit is uniquely our own, unlike Hindi which is basically a Muslim language, with most words from either Persian or Arabic. Hindi and Urdu are pretty much the same, even though the Hindi fanatics would have us believe otherwise. Sanskrit will not threaten other languages, unlike Hindi. Rather it will complement them and enrich them. It will gradually take the place of English in Indian culture.

Yes,Sanskrit is to be the National Language of India.What ever the Community You belong.What ever be Your caste you are.What ever your place to be.it does not matter.You have to learn Sanskrit.Other wise there will be no Meaning of Indian Culture and History.Other wise It's all like equal to pakistan or saudi or Bangladesh.So my request to National Authorities to take a decision that Sanskrit has to be our National Language.Because it does not belong to any Regional Language and it has an equal advantage and disadvantage to the Whole India. and Rename India as a "Sanskrita Bharatiyam".Means a new Redefine India.That will be accepted by Whole India with out any Consequences.Because sanskrit is the 'Mother of all Languages'.

Jai sanskrit and Jai Bharatiyam

Sanskrit is a language not confined to any religion or a region.She is beyond every diversity we have.She is the mother of all indian languages and has even been a fundamental framework of many foreign languages including English.She has the power to bridge the gaps between each of us(state,religion,language).She is the most ancient heritage of this great land and she rightly deserves her honour.Besides,most of the regional languages have their roots in Sanskrit.So it will not be a problem in learning the language.I wish Sanskrit is encouraged in every institution.The language always plays a major role in improving the character(a character which is of utmost purity) of a person and I feel Sanskrit can transform an individual towards a honest and an enlightened life.From my 8 year study of Sanskrit i personally feel that Sanskrit language if made India's national language can imbibe moral and ethical values in every individual and its study can make life a lot worthy and inspiring.I,myself have experienced its divinity and the beautiful words it has can never be found in any other language.I strongly feel that Sanskrit should be made India's national language,further it should be taught in every educational institution in the world.

http://intellibriefs.blogspot.com/2005/04/ambedkar-wanted-sanskrit-as-of...
Anal Kumar ( अनल कुमार ), Incentive Awardee-2009,Kendriya Vidyalaya No1, Patiala (Pb.)

Hi All,

Here are some of the resources that i found useful for larning vedic maths.

http://www.vedicmathsin10days.com
http://www.vedicmaths.org/introduction/tutorial/tutorial.asp
http://www.vedicmaths.in/

Regards,
Rahul

A good talk on Sanskrit as language of Science is available here - http://www.scribd.com/doc/22105448/Sanskrit-as-Language-of-Science

The talk also covers analysis of Sanskrit Grammar and Sanskrit texts.

Sanskirt which the root of the our Indian Culture should be made our national language, India desperatelly need a NATIOAL Language because India is a multi lingual country and we need a language which unites us breaking all the religion and boundries, because sanskrit is a not only the oldest in India but one of the oldest in the world, it is not only a devine language but a scientific language, scientist of NASA believe is one the rarest and the best NATURAL LANGUAGE for the computer applications,I a person who know Hindi well to read and write and I respect as any other langugage, but we have other great langugaes like Tamil which is also one the oldest and divine language, and we a Kannada whose literature as won more JANAPEITH Awards, and we have Bengali which won the Nobel prize for our great Rabindranath Tagore, and we have so many other great many langugaes, so instead ot making our student to learn Hindi as an extra language, it is best to make sanskirt the national language which satisfies all the language lovers of india, so that we indians should not fight in the name of language as most of us believe it is anti tamil and anti urdu but sanskrit will become the natioal unifiying languge and our children tommarrow can tell proudly we are from the roots 5000 years old of the great Indus valley Civilization.

This would not be a great idea, since the significance of the official language will be wiped off, as not much people are comfortable with Sanskrit. Official language and other higher level decisions should be a comfortable decision to all people of India, since India is a democratic country.

Coming to whether Tamil is a derivative of Sanskrit, the answer is 'Tamil is not a derivative of Sanskrit', as right from the Indus Valley civilization till the migration of Aryans to Indus valley, Tamil was into existence.

Coming to the which language is the ancient, it cannot be clearly told whether Tamil is older or Sanskrit is older, since we cannot bank on the scripts of Tamil or Sanskrit in existence, since the oldest script that exist is Veda, which proves Sanskrit is oldest, but at the same time Indus valley civilization was in and around Punjab region, which was further taken over by aryans and there are fare chances that the Tamil scripts could have been destroyed to reinforce the Sanskrit Script.

people still believe in TRASH theories like aryan invasion theory(AIT). it is because of this there is divide between south and north india. if people still continue to believe in AIT , then no one can implement sanskrit as national language
for that matter even hindi cannot serve as national language , since it is influenced arabic,persian, urdu etc of islam nations, now i would say Islam Invasion Theory (IIT)and not accept hindi as national language.
and now for english , i would say same thing as above and say British Invasion Theory (BIT) , so why should we learn english then ??.(although our languages are not much influenced by english , this ideogram goes with key points like "invasion"+"foriegn language"+"why should we learn it").but then again we are studying english.
the AIT is out in the DUST BIN and we still try to prove it true with our racial mind. sanskrit is indegenous to india . if at all there are similarities between them , it only means they have copied from us. whether people know it or not there are bunch of word in english which beleived to have telugu origin.does that make telugu an indo-european language. sanskrit and its predecessors played an important role in uniting india with west asia, europe east asia countries.
sanskrit has abugida system of writing telling that it has asian orgin and similarities of words or letters with european shows that sanskrit (or its predecessor) served as lingua franca in ancient times. and the grammar in sanskrit is more sophisticated than any language which clearly debunks the "sanskrit is developed by foriengn invaders" theory .
it is high time that we let go of english and limit its usage to international communacation. we are on verge of losing our culture , language. we are becoming imprints of materialistic western character. we all have have to support the revival of sanskrit and hence revive sanathana dharma and remove all ailments of current hindu culture.