Sanskrit

[Alyara Arati]

I can recognize a few words here and there, but can in no way claim to know what I'm doing.  I just wondered if anyone else here had given this amazing language any study, or would like to research and discuss a little.

[Payoang]

I've loved the script for a while, but my real interest in the language stems from The Matrix. I feel guilty enough, but I love it all the same.

The Matrix Revolutions OST - Neodammerung

[Alyara Arati]

Wou!  I never would have picked that up as sanskrit, although I can see it once the lyrics are in front of me, and even occasionally identify a word meaning here and there.  (I'm unspeakably proud of this accomplishment.)

[Alyara Arati]

Wou!  I never would have picked that up as sanskrit, although I can see it once the lyrics are in front of me, and even occasionally identify a word meaning here and there.  (I'm unspeakably proud of this accomplishment.)

This is more my "speed."
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xm5fhb_virtual-kirtan-choir-sings-ma-durga-by-krishna-das_music

Spoiler

3 - Ma Durga

Om Shree Matre Namaha
I bow to the Mother
Jai Ambe Gauri, Jaya Shyaamaa Gauri
Hail to the/Golden Mother
Hail to the Black Mother
Jaya Jagatambe, Hey Ma Durga!
Victory to Ma Durga, the Mother of the World

Surround me with your loving arms...hold me in your heart.
Let me know that I am loved
and that I can love.
Show me that no matter where I go
That I come and go in You.
I am never out of your loving presence.
That you are the smile behind the smile,
the touch behind the touch
The kiss behind the kiss...
You are the constant presence that I forget until I remember
and when I remember my Self, I remember You.
I sing your Name. What else can I think of? You ARE Love.
And I AM You.

[wm.annis]

I took two years of Sanskrit in college.  I am woefully out of practice reading it these days, however.

[Alyara Arati]

Cool!  You are now officially my hero.  Don't feel anxious, however, I have lots of them.

[Tirea Aean]

i would like to add this to my learn before i die list

[`Eylan Ayfalulukanä]

I, too have an interest in Sanskrit. I have a good friend of mine who has taken some courses in Sanskrit, as he would like to do missionary work in Tibet and Nepal. We have had some interesting discussions about Sanskrit since then.

It is my understanding that Sanskrit has more in common with western languages than it does eastern languages.

[wm.annis]

It is my understanding that Sanskrit has more in common with western languages than it does eastern languages.

Err.  "Western languages" vs. "Eastern languages" is not a terribly linguistically descriptive comparison.

It was work of European scholars studying Sanskrit that clued them into the fact that it was related to other languages of Europe.  In particular, Classical Greek and Sanskrit are kissing cousins, and it was the recognition of this that is largely responsible for kick-starting the entire field of linguistics — Latin and Greek are (linguistically) too distantly related for the relationships to be really obvious.  For amusement's sake, present tense of "to bear" in Greek and Sanskrit:

	Greek	Sanskrit
1sg.	φέρω pherō	bhárāmi
2sg.	φέρεις phereis	bhárasi
3sg.	φέρει pherei	bhárati
1pl.	φέρομεν pheromen	bhárāmas(i)
	(Doric φέρομες pheromes)
2pl.	φέρετε pherete	bháratha
3pl.	φέρουσι pherousi	bháranti
	(Doric φέροντι pheronti)

A fun cognate, king: Skt. rāja, Lat. rex (reg-), OIr. rí, ríg.

Sanskrit is a somewhat odd choice for a future missionary.  Nepali or Tibetan would let you talk to many more people.  Sanskrit is somewhat like Latin — a major repository of historical and religious literature, but not really known by too many people.

[Alyara Arati]

Sorry for the necropost, but you are as close as I know to a Sanskrit scholar.  Someone recently posted this (ahem, rant, ahem) on a facebook site that I read, and this was not my understanding of the word "dharma" at all!!!  Is this correct??

"Perhaps this word dharma means something akin to karma, but the "duh" sanskrit inflection at the beginning of the word dharma does convey sarcasm as to something already known and perceptibly obvious. And the letter "r" in sanskrit means "head." And, "ma" is a sanskrit verb that means "to know." So, my dharma is "Obviously, the head knows." Or, through pure intuition, I have come to know the Creator."

[wm.annis]

Is this correct??

It is purest lunacy.

[Alyara Arati]

Is this correct??

It is purest lunacy.

Thank you for your answer.   I was pretty sure that it was complete jibberish, but it is reassuring to have these things confirmed.