Watch the video in YouTube and also look at the comments - then read my comment. #sanskrit
Watch the video in YouTube and also look at the comments - then read my comment. #sanskrit
Also a request to contributors: Here in this forum also there are some posts which have nothing to do with Veda or the given sub classifications - we need to be concious while posting something here - if it is not related to Veda, Shastra, Sanskrit, etc. then we should post our content elsewhere.
Originally shared by Krishnamurthi CG
I agree with Rajivji on the danger of Sanskrit getting branded as a Computational Linguistic tool. There is sufficient interest generated from the Computational Linguistic community with respect to finding answers from the Sanskrit Shastras - particularly from Vyakarana treatises. Many Indian IT (they are ones contributing maximum, in the Web) people have uploaded a lot of content with respect to this area of Sanskrit Shastras. With the recent explosion of Analytics, Big-Data and Semantic Web, etc.- Sanskrit Linguistics theories are being seriously looked upon by scientists, linguists as well as programmers. Sanskrit Shastras contain an endless repositary of linguistic clues and methods for simple to complex linguistic issues . Thus, this is a recent phenomenon that Sanskrit being labled as a tool for Computational Linguistics. This is wrong. However this is due to high traffic generated in the Web for this term (purpose). If there is sufficient interest (traffic) with respect to Ayurveda, Yoga, Vedanta, Jyotisha, Vastu in Sanskrit - clearly linking those Subject matters respectively with Sanskrit, and if there are sufficient amount of generic content then, Sanskrit will not be branded so. It is our mistake that we are not linking the current Ayurveda, Yoga, practices etc. properly with their Sanskrit roots. (more people are familiar with the name "butterfly pose" than "baddhakonasana" - this is our mistake). It is to be noted that many Ayurvedic Spa websites (promoting ayurvedic tourism), don't have anything related to Sanskrit - the same thing with Yoga websites - Indians are not even the 2nd biggest contributers of Yoga related material in the Web. Similarly with respect to Jyotisha (it should be more from an astronomical point of view than the current predictive astrological point of view) or Vaastu (should be more from a AEC - architecture/engineering /construction point of view than the current predictive money making pursuit), etc. No need to say about Vedanta - a lot web content on Vedanta has got nothing to do with Vedanta as the content is corrupted with unrelated philosophic stuff due to the influence of English based Vedantic studies (actually the philosophical studies in universities themselves are mixed up). If there are proper contributers (not pseudo pandits who are looking to make quick money) on respective subjects, only then this problem can be addressed fully. Till then this wrong perception will continue - thus, it is our duty to contribute in all fields as well as educate that Sanskrit shastras have much more to offer then just linguistics - such as Arts, AEC, Geometry, Maths, Astronomy, Chemistry, Health sciences, Yoga, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFYYVUO-y0w
Also a request to contributors: Here in this forum also there are some posts which have nothing to do with Veda or the given sub classifications - we need to be concious while posting something here - if it is not related to Veda, Shastra, Sanskrit, etc. then we should post our content elsewhere.
Originally shared by Krishnamurthi CG
I agree with Rajivji on the danger of Sanskrit getting branded as a Computational Linguistic tool. There is sufficient interest generated from the Computational Linguistic community with respect to finding answers from the Sanskrit Shastras - particularly from Vyakarana treatises. Many Indian IT (they are ones contributing maximum, in the Web) people have uploaded a lot of content with respect to this area of Sanskrit Shastras. With the recent explosion of Analytics, Big-Data and Semantic Web, etc.- Sanskrit Linguistics theories are being seriously looked upon by scientists, linguists as well as programmers. Sanskrit Shastras contain an endless repositary of linguistic clues and methods for simple to complex linguistic issues . Thus, this is a recent phenomenon that Sanskrit being labled as a tool for Computational Linguistics. This is wrong. However this is due to high traffic generated in the Web for this term (purpose). If there is sufficient interest (traffic) with respect to Ayurveda, Yoga, Vedanta, Jyotisha, Vastu in Sanskrit - clearly linking those Subject matters respectively with Sanskrit, and if there are sufficient amount of generic content then, Sanskrit will not be branded so. It is our mistake that we are not linking the current Ayurveda, Yoga, practices etc. properly with their Sanskrit roots. (more people are familiar with the name "butterfly pose" than "baddhakonasana" - this is our mistake). It is to be noted that many Ayurvedic Spa websites (promoting ayurvedic tourism), don't have anything related to Sanskrit - the same thing with Yoga websites - Indians are not even the 2nd biggest contributers of Yoga related material in the Web. Similarly with respect to Jyotisha (it should be more from an astronomical point of view than the current predictive astrological point of view) or Vaastu (should be more from a AEC - architecture/engineering /construction point of view than the current predictive money making pursuit), etc. No need to say about Vedanta - a lot web content on Vedanta has got nothing to do with Vedanta as the content is corrupted with unrelated philosophic stuff due to the influence of English based Vedantic studies (actually the philosophical studies in universities themselves are mixed up). If there are proper contributers (not pseudo pandits who are looking to make quick money) on respective subjects, only then this problem can be addressed fully. Till then this wrong perception will continue - thus, it is our duty to contribute in all fields as well as educate that Sanskrit shastras have much more to offer then just linguistics - such as Arts, AEC, Geometry, Maths, Astronomy, Chemistry, Health sciences, Yoga, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFYYVUO-y0w
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