29) The eternal perfection of the Sanskrit language which is the mother language of the world. Now we come back to the defects of the statement of Sir William Jones of 1786 and subsequently its blind acceptance by the writers of the whole world without checking its credibility. We have already explained in article 11 about the perfection of the alphabet, grammar, word formation, morphology, the literary presentation, and have discussed about the eternal stability of the Sanskrit language whose apbhransh words were adopted by all other languages of the world. Anyone studying Sanskrit grammar understands these facts from the beginning as they are the basic characteristics of the Sanskrit language, whereas all the western and the Middle East writing systems developed from the Phoenician and Aramaic alphabets which only had syllabic consonants and no vowels, and that also in an incomplete form. Major languages of the European family. The most important language family of today. (An image of the alphabet and vowel system and certain apbhranshas of the Sanskrit language are found in every language of the world because Sanskrit is the first language of the earth planet. Its apbhranshas are seen more in the languages of the European family because these countries had more frequent trade connections with India, and thus, the people of these countries also had social connections with India to some extent. That’s why Pahlavi of Persia had lots of Sanskrit apbhransh words in it.) * Next to the name of each language their alphabetic system is also mentioned. ** Indian languages: Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi and South Indian languages are the descendants of Sanskrit language. Sindhi and Punjabi are the derivatives of Hindi and Urdu languages. Languages of the world. As detailed in articles 13, 14 and 15, you can see that these languages never even had their own alphabet. The Iranian language, Persian, borrowed its alphabet three times from three different sources (cuneiform, to Aramaic, to Arabic) within 1,300 years and in its advanced stage it has only three (a, i, u) vowel marks which are used for both long and short sounds. They are totally inadequate to give the correct pronunciation of the words. So, unless you know the words, you cannot pronounce them correctly. The Greek language started from incomplete consonants which was borrowed from Northern (Phoenician) Semites, then added some vowels, improved the shape of the letters, added more long and short vowels, and thus, improved the language by constantly changing, altering, adding and modifying the word morphology, their inflection and the syntax as well. It also improved its vocabulary by borrowing the words from other languages, and thus, bringing it to the level of its modern standard where still a number of grammatical imperfections exist. Similar is the history of all the languages of the world. Latin and English languages also went through a number of changes before even their vocabulary was standardized from Germanic tribal language, which adopted Latin alphabet and then modified it. Sanskrit language. How it became the origin of the languages of the world. Sanskrit language, as we see is all-perfect from the very beginning when the western world didn’t even have a proper alphabet. The words of the Vedas like: vishanti, upasate are used in the same way in the Gita and the Puranas because there has never been any change or improvement in the formation of its words as it was the self-perfected language, which is also an indication of its Divineness. This situation itself is the authentication of this fact that Sanskrit is the first and the mother language of the world; and its unique and eternal perfection, which is unimagined and unmatched in the world, is the positive verdict of its being a Divine (supernatural) language. (30) The six unmatched features of the Sanskrit language. 1. The vowel-consonant pronunciation of the alphabet 2. Formation of the Sanskrit words 3. The uniqueness of the grammar 4. The three kinds of prime Sanskrit scriptures (Vedas, Puranas, and their style of literary presentation 5. The apbhransh 6. Sanskrit, the scriptural language up till today 1. The vowel-consonant pronunciation of the alphabet. The most striking feature of the Sanskrit language is the vowel-consonant pronunciation of the alphabet and the uniqueness of every consonant (or its combination) as a complete syllabic unit when it is joined with a vowel. For example: Its 16 vowels are the actual ‘voice pattern’ of the sound and 36 consonants are only the ‘form’ of the ‘voice pattern’ of the sound. So a consonantalone cannot be pronounced as it is only a ‘form’ of the ‘voice pattern’ until it is attached to a vowel. Thus, a vowel, which itself is a ‘voice pattern,’ can be pronounced alone or it can be modulated by adding a consonant to it (like, ). This system was not adopted in the languages of the world. Thus, their syllables have no uniformity, like in come and coma where ‘co’ has two different pronunciations, and in come and kind or kiss, the letter ‘c’ and ‘k’ both have the same pronunciation. The Greeks adopted five vowels from the Sanskrit literature, and some of the daily usable apbhransh words and numerals, like trya, panch etc. Trya (three) became trias and panch (five) became pente in Greek. These words reached their country through the trade routes by word of mouth during trade communications with India. The English language during Great Vowel Shift used some diphthongizations like ai and au. But still the range of vowels as compared to Sanskrit was always less and incomplete and, apart from the vowels, consonants also had their own sound (like vowelless sly, fry, dry) which was also not always the same, like the word chaos where the sound of ch is k and o is a. This situation created a permanent ambiguity of the pronunciations and the vowels lost their true effects, like, top, mop, hum, chum, where o and u both sound as long or short a. Thus, a language which is developed on imperfect grounds can never be perfect, no matter how far it advances. In Sanskrit, the basic structure of its vowel-consonant pronunciation is the unique foundation of the language that precisely stabilizes the word pronunciation where each letter (or a combination of consonants with a vowel) is a syllable. 2. Formation of the Sanskrit words. The second unmatched feature is the formation of the Sanskrit words. Since the beginning we had a complete dictionary of root words called dhatu that could create any number of words according to the requirement by adding a proper prefix and suffix which are described in detail in the Sanskrit grammar. The formation, modulation and creation of words have been originally the same, in an absolutely perfect state since the beginning, as they are today. 3. The uniqueness of the grammar. The most impressive uniqueness of the Sanskrit grammar is that, along with the Sanskrit language, it is unchanged in every age because it is a Divinely produced grammar. Its conjugation system, word formation and the style of poetry formation are all unique, unchanged and perfectly detailed since it appeared on the earth planet through the descended Saints. Take a line of the Yajurved, There is a noun janah (people), and verb gacchanti (to go into) which is formed of gam dhatu (to go), like, gacchati, gacchatah, gacchanti. All the 90 conjugations of the verb gacch (to go) and all the 21 forms of the noun jan (people) are used in the same way without any change in the Vedas, in the Puranas and in other Sanskrit literature as well, because they are ever perfect without any sound shift. The Sanskrit language represents the literal form of the Divinity on the earth planet. Such is the Sanskrit grammar. 4. The three kinds of prime Sanskrit scriptures (Vedas, Upnishads and the Puranas) and their style of literary presentation. The three styles of Sanskrit are: (a) the Vedas (sanhita), (b) the Upnishads and (c) the Puranas. All of them were reproduced during the same period before 3102 BC. But their literature has its own style. The difference in the style and the uses of words in all the three kinds of scriptures does not mean any evolution or improvement in the vocabulary. It is just their style. For example, the word khalu has been used only once in the Rigved sanhita. Vedic verses do not use the full range of words as is used in the Puranas and the Bhagwatam because they are mainly the invocation mantras for the celestial gods and that too for ritualistic purposes, not for the devotion to supreme God. So they don’t need too many words to relate a mantra. They have their own character, and use some of their own wordings which are unusual to regular Sanskrit literature. For example: devebhih in the Vedas and devaih (celestial gods) in common Sanskrit. Similarly, vyoman in the Vedas and vyomni (Divine dimensions) in common Sanskrit. But the formation of these words is explained in the Vedic grammar and in the Nirukt, a special book for explaining such words. The language of the Bhagwatam is very scholarly, poetic and rich as it explains the richest philosophy of God, God’s love and God realization along with its other affiliated theories. It also explains the total history of this brahmand and its creation. The true Divine love form of the supreme God is described in the Bhagwatam. The language of the other 17 Puranas is less rich, and the language of the Upnishads sometimes leans towards the Vedic sanhita side. Now we know that the difference in the literary presentation of the Vedic sanhita and the Puranas are their own nature and style, they do not relate to their seniority or juniority. 31) Organized efforts of the British to destroy our culture and religion, and mutilate our history. The first evidence of the above fact is the personal secret suggestion of Jones (along with a derogative essay) of 1784 to Warren Hastings, Governor General of India, where he explains his plan of how to destroy the religious faith of the Hindus of India which is deep rooted in their hearts by: (1) Fabricating a false Sanskrit scripture that would show all the greatness of Jesus. (2) Translating a gospel and Isaiah into Sanskrit in the style of a Hindu scripture with (false) ancient predictions about Jesus being a great Divine person, and then (3) carefully distributing these (false and fabricated) books in our educated society to withdraw their mind from the Vedic religion and to divert it towards Christianity. See for yourself. Evidence of their malicious intentions (to produce fabricated Sanskrit scriptures). Sir William Jones, 1784 (from Asiatic Researches Vol. 1. Published 1979, pages 234-235. First published 1788). “As to the general extension of our pure faith in Hindustan there are at present many sad obstacles to it… We may assure ourselves, that… Hindus will never be converted by any mission from the church of Rome, or from any other church; and the only human mode, perhaps, of causing so great a revolution, will be to translate into Sanscrit… such chapters of the Prophets, particularly of ISAIAH, as are indisputably evangelical, together with one of the gospels, and a plain prefatory discourse, containing full evidence of the very distant ages, in which the predictions themselves, and the history of the Divine Person (Jesus) predicted, were severally made public; and then quietly to disperse the work among the well-educated natives.” Such a plot was launched against India with two main objectives: (1) To destroy the Bhartiya religion, and (2) to mutilate its history. One can imagine the depth of their bad intentions of which Jones was the main implementer. We are giving a few more passages from the same essay “On the Gods of Greece, Italy and India” by Jones, President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (Calcutta), written in 1784. This is a long essay of 47 pages in which Jones had tried to demean all the forms of the Hindu God and Goddess in a very humiliating manner and tried to condemn Their Divine greatness by all means. -Previous- (30) The six unmatched features of the Sanskrit language. -Present- (31) Organized efforts of the British to destroy our culture and religion, and mutilate our history. -Next- (32) First effort of Jones (1784) and the secret planning. Copyright © 1999 - 2001 H.D. Swami Prakashanand Saraswati encyclopediaofauthentichinduism.org/articles.htm
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