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Samskrita Bharati
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Mission and motivations
The basic mission of this organisation is to democratise and popularise Sanskrit by encouraging the use of simple Sanskrit in everyday conversational contexts. More recently, the organisation has started to focus on the maintenance of the "mother-tongue-ness" () of Sanskrit by means of Sanskrit households.. Bangalore: BhÄratÄ« Additionally, the primary impetus is on direct Sanskrit language instruction through Sanskrit itself as the medium of instruction.Motivation
As its founder says, "Sanskrit is the best tool to remove the five types of social differences; linguistic, class, caste, sect and the north vs south division."Licked by the Mother Tongue: Imagining Everyday Sanskrit at Home and in the World, Adi Hastings Journal of Linguistic Anthropology {{doi|10.1111/j.1548-1395.2008.00002.x}} A basic goal is to create a nation of Sanskrit speakers, (re)creating a national unity for India through common linguistic practice.Another one of the main premises of the movement is to allow direct access to the vast storehouse of the Sanskrit textual tradition.Pedagogical principles
The organisation's pedagogical philosophy is based on the idea that listening and speaking must precede reading and writing. Rejecting both Western-style grammatical instruction (or more recent innovations) and Indian traditions of Sanskrit instruction emphasising systematic memorisation, Samskrita Bharati instead has focused its energies on immersion through conversation. A common aphorism used in their literature is: "Speak in Samskrit, not about Samskrit."This follows a theory of linguistic practice which imagines a progression from the capacity for "general communication" (simple reference and predication), through the capacity for expressing thought or reasoning (logical argumentation), culminating in the capacity for the outward manifestation of emotions.à¤à¥à¤·à¥à¤£à¤¶à¤¾à¤¸à¥à¤¤à¥à¤°à¤¿à¤ १९९९}}Simple Sanskrit Usage
To provide a gentler introduction to Sanskrit, Samskrita Bharati has developed a simple and effective method of Sanskrit instruction through Sanskrit. Initial instruction is on simple use of the language, which while conforming to Panini's grammar, focuses on the use of very regular forms for conversational purposes at initial stages. As Dr Hastings observes:the "simple" of simple Sanskrit points to the fact that it is designed to act as a bridge between the modern vernacular(s) a simple Sanskrit learner already knows and, ideally, acquisition of the {{Sic|?|hide=y|fully|-}}elaborated Classical Sanskrit grammar... "simple Sanskrit" is a variety of the language which has been subjected to what we could call distributional simplification. That is, almost all of the differences between simple Sanskrit and Classical Sanskrit are differences in the distribution of forms rather than grammatical".This form of simple use of language exists and is practised in several languages in India. A news anchor, or a stage speaker, might for instance, construct sentences using advanced grammatical or literary phrases. These advanced constructions are found widely in literature, however, not required for day-to-day communication, and can be acquired and understood overtime. (Note that this is NOT the difference between colloquial and formal language). Simple use of Sanskrit is very much formal and grammatically accurate.JOURNAL,weblink 24692622, Kahrs, Eivind, Reviewed work: Saá¹ská¹ta-sÄdhutÄ / Goodness of Sanskrit: Studies in Honour of Professor Ashok Aklujkar, CHIKAFUMI WATANABE, MICHELE DESMARAIS, YOSHICHIKA HONDA, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2014, 77, 1, 236â238, 10.1017/S0041977X13001171,weblink'Etudes_Indiennes_vol_32_pp_149-170/links/596f6679458515d5ff64e255/Paninian-grammar-of-living-Sanskrit-features-and-principles-of-the-Prakriya-Sarvasva-of-Narayana-Bhatta-of-Melputtur-Bulletin-dEtudes-Indiennes-vol-32-pp-149-170.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=September 2022}weblink {{Bare URL PDF|date=September 2022}}Work
(File:SambhÄá¹£aá¹asandeÅaḥ (sambhashan sandesha).jpg|thumb|right|{{transliteration|sa|IAST|SambhÄá¹£aá¹a SandeÅaḥ}}{{snd}}the organisation's official Sanskrit magazine)Samskrita Bharati is primarily a volunteer-driven organisation, with volunteers from all walks of life spending time educating people to speak Sanskrit. Their most popular offering is the 10-day capsule of two-hour classes designed to impart simple Sanskrit conversational skills.Besides this, the organisation conducts the following programmes:- A two-week intense residential teaching programme called {{transliteration|sa|IAST|Saá¹vÄdaÅÄlÄ}} (), is conducted in New Delhi, India every summer.
- Weekend camps and yearly residential camps as well in many parts of the US and India.
- Development and publication of Simple Sanskrit books, tapes and CDs for learning practical conversations in Sanskrit at various levels are developed systematically to allow new speakers to effectively use Sanskrit for conversations.
- Publication of the {{transliteration|sa|IAST|SambhÄá¹£aá¹a SandeÅaḥ}} magazine.
- Distance learning programmes or {{transliteration|sa|IAST|dÅ«rasthaÅiká¹£aá¹am}} ().
- Sanskrit as a foreign language programme for children in USA.
- Competitions to encourage Sanskrit learning amongst children.
Effectiveness
Even as he acknowledges that "end of the ten days, the participants have a reasonable command of many basic features of (simple) Sanskrit and can formulate a wide variety of expressions.", Hastings notes:While the Sanskrit conversation camps have garnered a great degree of public visibility for the Sanskrit revival movement, they have not generated as large and dedicated a following as Samskrita Bharati would hope. The organisation has a host of follow-up activities for graduates of the introductory ten-day camps, but there is a substantial attrition rate after initial exposure in the camps.Origin
Chamu Krishna Shastry, a Sanskrit scholar from Tirupati Sanskrit College along with five of his colleagues, after graduating in Sanskrit, came up with a methodology of teaching spoken Sanskrit through the "Speak Samskritam" (called a {{transliteration|sa|IAST|SambhÄá¹£aá¹a Åibiram}}) course with ten-day capsule classes of two hours duration. Within a short span of time, this methodology became a trend blazer in the field of teaching Sanskritam. This "Speak Samskritam" Movement took off in 1981 from Bangalore city, and later "Samskrita Bharati"{{mdash}}a national level organisation{{mdash}}was established in New Delhi in 1995.JOURNAL, Simplifying Sanskrit, Adi, Hastings, Pragmatics, 13, 4, 2003,weblink JOURNAL, à¤à¤®à¥ à¤à¥à¤·à¥à¤£ शसà¥à¤¤à¥à¤°à¥, à¤à¤¦à¤¿à¤¤à¤¾ सà¤à¤¸à¥à¤à¥à¤¤à¤¾à¤à¤¾à¤°à¤¤à¥,weblink समà¥à¤à¤¾à¤·à¤£ सनà¥à¤¦à¥à¤¶à¤, October 1996,See also
References
{{Reflist}}External links
- weblink{{snd}}Official Website (India)
- Speeches by Samskrita Bharati
- weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20070309202846weblink">Special day to showcase Sanskrit talent of students, 14 Aug 2006, The Hindu
- Sanskrit echoes around the world, 5 July 2007, Christian Science Monitor
- weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120211155817weblink">This village speaks gods language 13 Aug 2005 Times of India Retrieved on 14 September 2008
- Special Feature on Samskrita Bharati Bangalore
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