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India’s classical language of Sanskrit is the liturgical language used in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. A Modern Sanskrit devoloping from Vedic Sanskrit is the official language in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
Sanskrit plays a significant role in history, with its rich literature that includes poetry, drama and texts on technical, scientific, philosophical and dharma views. It is also believed to be the parent language of India’s national language, Hindu. Today, many Buddhist hymns and mantras, as well as Hindu rituals, are in Sanskrit. There has been many revisions in the language over the years in various villages.
Schools have also been promoting the use of Sanskrit, some even giving awards for literary pieces in the language. There is an Indian newspaper in Sanskrit too, as well as daily news broadcasts on TV and the internet.
Sanskrit Translation
Here some facts for you before you hire a Sanskrit translator:
Sanskrit was initially a purely oral language.
Sanskrit grammar is called Trimuni Vyākarana, because of three ancient grammarians: Pāṇini, Kātyāyana and Patañjali. There are 10 classes of verbs, these divide into athematic and thematic groups. There are four verb “tenses”, with the same classifications applying to gerunds and infinitives, and other parts of the sentence based on conjugations. The four classifications or tenses are: present, perfect, aorist, and future.
Sanskrit is highly inflected with 3 genders (masculine, feminine and neuter), three numbers (singular, plural and dual), and eight cases (nominative, vocative, accusative, instrumental, dative, ablative, genitive, and locative). There are also declensions, whose number is debatable depending on the grammarian.
Pronouns follow case, gender and number. There are declensions to a few adjectives, and enclitic forms.
Sanskrit’s syntax is free form, but it usually leans towards subject- object- verb.
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