Everything about Sanskrit Revival totally explained
Attempts at
reviving the Sanskrit language have been undertaken in the
Republic of India since its foundation in
1947 (it was included in the 14 original
languages of the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution). Many organizations like the
Samskrta Bharati are conducting Speak Sanskrit workshops to popularize the language. The "All-India Sanskrit Festival" (since 2002) holds composition contests. The
1991 Indian census reported 49,736 fluent speakers of Sanskrit.
The
CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) in India has made Sanskrit a third language (though it's an option for a school to adopt it or not, the other choice being the state's own official language) in the schools it governs. In such schools, learning Sanskrit is an option for grades 5 to 8 (Classes V to VIII). This is true of most schools, including but not limited to Christian missionary schools, affiliated to the
ICSE board too, especially in those states where the official language is
Hindi. An option between Sanskrit and a local language as a second language exists for grades 9 and 10.
All India Radio transmits news bulletins in Sanskrit twice a day across the nation. Besides, Sanskrit learning programmes also feature on the list of most of the AIR broadcasting centres.
The
Mattur village in central
Karnataka claims to have native speakers of Sanskrit among its population. Inhabitants of all
castes learn Sanskrit starting in childhood and converse in the language. Even the local Muslims speak and converse in Sanskrit. Historically, the village was given by king
Krishnadevaraya of the
Vijayanagara Empire to Vedic scholars and their families. People in his kingdom spoke Kannada and Telugu (Tuluva).
Another effort concentrates on the preservation of
oral transmission of the
Vedas.
Shri Vedabharathi is one such organization based out of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh that has been digitizing the Vedas through voice recording the recitations of Vedic Pandits.
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