wiki entry for sanskrit says it is as old as 3700 year old. Now regarding script, I know that none of south indian Brahmins used Devanagiri script until very recently.It was Granthavari or Granthakshari which was used. even present Malayalam script is used to write sanskrit. Vedas were taught orally. memorising is imortant. None of Vedic acharyas referred books. To them whole Vedas, Yajur,rg and sama ,samhitas, sakha, and padams were byheart. They first teach pada Padha(Words i vedas; one by one) and then Vedic hymns. Sanskrit was also taught this way. Sankskrit scholars were masters in Kalidasa's works like Raghuvamsam, sakuntalam. They will start with a sloka, teach all individual words, its' meanings, sandhis(combinations of words),samasams, Naanarthas (same word with different meanings with diff context; or words which are pronounced similarly with slight spelling differences) ,paryayas(many words with same meaning), samasams etc etc. Now the disciple also learn the alphabet, the a aa, i, ii, u,uu and the consonents like ka,kha,ga,gha nga etc and he knows this bcoz Malayalam too have the same alphabets. He never learn to write. It is not taught using books, slate and pencil. Todays peoples cannot imagine learning a language without using books and writing. So in short in the past, Brahmins,Kshatriya and Vysya spoke sanskrit, sudras spoke bot and outcastes regional languages like Tamil,Malayalam, Kannada, Magadhi,Pali,sauraseni ,Gandhari, etc etc...
RE:Friend Ramsubbu
by Ramasubbu on Oct 10, 2007 09:53 PM Permalink
Wiki entry can be done by any one, But there is not even a single proof of Sanskrit's existence 3700 years ago. No Archeological evidence means it is false claim. Similary other ancient languages listed here have evidences.
RE:Friend Ramsubbu
by Raju Kumar on Oct 10, 2007 11:54 PM Permalink
Britannica Encyclopedia dates Sanskrit back to 3800 years old. But research has hardly started, so good chance of even earlier dating.
Ramsubbu, it is high time you started your own encyclopedia based on your views that do not need any semblence of proof.
RE:Friend Ramsubbu
by Ramasubbu on Oct 11, 2007 03:54 AM Permalink
So you mean to say ram existed only before 3700 years ago? Because ram spoke only sanskrit with sita . Okay is there any evidence of Sankrit that it was 3700 years ago? does britanica has any valid archaeological evidence as Brahmi and other ancient langugaes had some kind of seals, epigraphy, stone scripts. what does sankrit have? I think Sankrit even used indian scripts to perform their half baked nature. They took help of dravidians to call it complete...
so you prove that Ram was only 3700 years old . thank god i don't have to go back to 17 million years to prove ram, when he spoke Sanskrit....
