Samskrita Bharati is organizing a weekend Sanskrit speaking workshop in
seattle area on Oct 14 – 15th. You may find more information about the program on their web site. Here is the link… There are similar programs being organized at different places (viz., SFO,CA; Boston,MA; San Jose,CA; etc). See here for more info.
This reminds me, I myself had once enquired about the local Sanskrit groups – I think here is an opportunity for me to go talk to some people there…
Upon the response on my previous Sanskrit – संस्कृतम् blog post, I came across Samskrita-Bharati website and noticed a learning camp being organized in
Bangalore. If you are in
Bangalore and are interested in learning Sanskrit language, you may want to take a look at it.
From the website:
Aug 1 through August 30, 2006 — 10,20 ot 30 day Samskritam Residential Camp in
Bangalore, India
Open to all including children. NO prior knowledge of Samskritam is required.When?
Aug 1 through Aug 30, 2006
Where?
Aksharam, 8th Cross, II Phase, Girinagara,
Bangalore, India 560 085
for more information go the website – Samskrita-Bharati
[url: http://www.samskrita-bharati.org/newsite/courses.php ]
I had mentioned about the Sanskrit language(संस्कृतम्), 2liner shubhashithas etc., in one of my blog posts before. One of my favorite 2 liner during my school days was about character and behavior – In sanskrit, it reads like this ….
विद्या दधाति विनयं; विनयं दधाति पात्रतां!
Just in case your browser didn't display the rigt fonts – this is how it reads in english…
[vidyaa dadhaati vinayaM; vinayaM dadhaati paatrataaM!]
Apparently, I am able to recall only one line and unable to remember the 2nd line. And, in fact, that's how the quote becomes complete. If you happen to know the complete quote – please let me know via comment on this post…. (ok if it is typed in english) thanks in advance. I have even searched on another shubhashita blog collection to some extent – perhaps I might have missed it there.
A few weeks ago, i had started some information gathering about Language Sanskrit in a post here. I wanted to build on my collection, specifically for shubhaashitha in Sanskrit script and explanation in english/kannada. Well, searching on few resources I found this link with some of those verses.
Prashanth Kota seems to have a good collection of shubhashithas and meaning translated in english. take a look…
Do you have any such pointers to shubhashita sites? I forgot to bring some material when I was in India last time. My passion kind of takes me back to schools days when I used to read quite many shubhashithas…
We were talking about Sanskrit language (संस्कृतम्) for some reason and our discussion went on for some time – talking about the scripts, as a spoken language, etc., Surprisingly, I had such language related discussions with few people today. Once about spanish in different parts of the world and later on about Sanskrit. I recently heard, Germany has a university where you can go get a degree in Sanskrit Literature. As we don’t know the exact reason, we tried to make some assumptions – whether German grammer is similar to Sanskrit? or is there a script that matches – No, i don’t think either of these? what do you think might be the reason? I searched on internet but couldn’t really get information about that.
Well talking about that, I thought of sharing some of the resources on the web:
wikipedia - Has a great information of the history of sanskrit as a language. It also has wealth of resource pointers where we can get more information to learn from.
SamskritaBharati
SamskritaPradeepika
American Sanskrit.com
Sanskrit Far from Real - Has alphabets, numbers and how they are pronounced, etc.,
and many more.. i will Update this post as I obtain more information. There are in fact, forums and meetup groups around in states. I am looking for one in Seattle area.
I wanted to share about my involvement and excitement about Sanskrit. Coming from the great background in Bangalore, We were always used to chant vedic mantras and they are of course, vedic chants are written in Sanskrit – so that made us to be fluent with chanting irrespective of the meaning those lines meant. As I came along I had a chance to take this language in school and participated in local shibiras (association) and that made me learn more.
If you, by any chance, come across the information about Sanskrit meetup groups in Seattle area, please let me know.
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