In
every society there are many classes of people. Some are educated, some
are less educated and some are much less educated. Accordingly, the
quality of their speech differs. Thus, during the time of Ved Vyas, when
Sanskrit was the spoken language of India, there may have been some people
who spoke a localized form of less perfect Sanskrit. As time went on a new
language developed in the Bihar area of North India which was a
combination of the localized dialect with the apbhransh words of
Sanskrit. The pronunciation of the Sanskrit word changes when it is spoken
by the people who are less educated or not educated in the Sanskrit
language, and then such words permanently enter into their locally spoken
language. These, partly mispronounced words, are called the apbhransh. Still, Sanskrit
remained the spoken language of the literary class of India at least up to
the time of Shankaracharya.
When Shankaracharya went to have an audience with
Mandan Mishra he found two parrots in two cages that were hung in front of
his house. They were happily uttering Sanskrit phrases
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which they had memorized by
listening to the scriptural discussions that were usually happening in the
house. All over India Shankaracharya debated in Sanskrit language wherever
he went. It was around 500 BC.
That was the time when the Greek and Latin languages
were in the course of their development. Trade communications between
India, Persia, Mesopotamia, Syria and Greece were already well
established. The stories of the Puranas and the Bhagwatam had already
reached, in a broken form, into those countries which they then adopted in
their society and incorporated into their religious mythology. The Iliad
and the Odyssey in their earliest and incomplete forms were composed
around 600 BC, and later on certain Sanskrit apbhransh words were
added in the Greek and Latin languages (which Jones picked as examples for
his speech in Calcutta).
Now we know that Sanskrit was the spoken language among
the scholars up to the time of Kalidas. The disciple Saints of Chaitanya
Mahaprabhu wrote hundreds of books in Sanskrit language on the supreme
knowledge, beauty, love and the loving pastimes of Krishn, and Jeev
Goswami described the detailed philosophy of soul, maya (original
cosmic energy), God and the intimate eternal manifestation of God’s
Gracious personality of Divine love (called the prem tattva).
The famous debate of Lord Chaitanya with Sarvabhaum
Bhattacharya that happened in the Sanskrit language established the
popularity of the Sanskrit language in the educated society of India up to
the 16th century AD. It was the period of the Muslim rule. Hindi, also
called Devnagri, was the main spoken language of North India, and Sanskrit
was the language of the learned people. After 1857 when English rule tried
to suppress Sanskrit education in India by introducing and encouraging
English education by all means and cutting the grants for the Sanskrit
colleges, Sanskrit education (being the soul of Bhartiya culture) still
survived, and keeping its glory it maintained its potential. Now the
Sanskrit colleges all over India are maintaining the greatness of the
eternal Divine language that was introduced by the creator Brahma on this
earth planet at the very beginning of human civilization.
Certain European writers and their blind followers
tried to confuse the issue of the eternal perfection of the Sanskrit
language. They argued that in the beginning the language (of the Vedas)
was in an undeveloped stage. Afterwards when it became a refined language
then it was called the Sanskrit language. In this way they tried to prove
the gradual development of the Sanskrit language. But their biased
intellect failed to understand the actual significance of the word ‘sanskrit.’
The word ‘sanskrit’ is formed as “sam + krit” where
sam prefix means (samyak) ‘entirely’ or ‘wholly’ or
‘perfectly,’ and krit means ‘done.’ So ‘sanskrit’
word means the one which is introduced or produced in its perfect form.
Thus, the Sanskrit language even according to its own literal meaning
proves to be a perfect language by its own character. It was first
introduced by Brahma to the Sages of the celestial abodes and still it is
the language of the celestial abode, so it is also called the Dev Vani.
The latest happening of the historical representation
of scholarly Sanskrit discourses by the Divine descension of this age,
Shree Kripaluji Maharaj, was in 1957 that glorified God Shiv’s
glorious town Varanasi for seven days. It revealed the philosophies of all
of our major scriptures and reconciled them with the theme of the
Bhagwatam. It was such an event that enthralled the wits of the great
learned pandits (Sanskrit scholars) of India with the sweetness of
the Divine touch that was imbued in the dry looking Darshan Shastras and
they wholeheartedly desired him to accept the honor of being the supreme
Jagadguru of this age (Jagadguruttam) as a flower of
their heartfelt appreciation.
It is thus established that the Sanskrit language,
since its appearance in the world through Brahma, maintained the glory of
our eternal scriptures in its perfect linguistic representation. All the
scriptures including all the Puranas were again authenticated and
reproduced between 3200 and 3102 BC by Bhagwan Ved Vyas whose Divine
wisdom was unlimited and whose Divine clairvoyance saw everything of past,
present and future. If someone’s conscience fails to comprehend the
eternal authenticity of the Sanskrit language for some reason, then at
least, according to the above descriptions, one can surely understand its
undefied perfection that had the capacity of introducing hundreds of
thousands of words according to its root system since the very beginning,
when even the earliest known cursive writing systems of the world (Greek
and Hebrew etc.) were at their infancy and were struggling to standardize
the pronunciation and to improve their vocabulary. During that process
they adopted certain apbhransh or commonly used words of Sanskrit
which is found in almost all the languages of the world.
Then, how and why did Sir William Jones set up such a
fabricated falsehood to derogate the Sanskrit language and introduce such
a fictitious tale (that was later on termed as Proto-Indo European
language) in his Calcutta speech of 2nd February 1786? Was he an enemy of Bhartiya culture?
No, he was an intelligent and most obedient servant of
the British regime, employed by the British diplomats to cleverly destroy
the culture, religion and the history of Bharatvarsh so that the British
could rule India forever and spread their religion (Christianity), and, at
the same time, they could make use of the scientific knowledge of the
Vedic scriptures, whatever they could find.
