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Sanskrit And Culture

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Item Code: BAG331
Publisher: KRISHNA PRAKASHAN, VARANASI
Author: Theodore Goldstucker
Language: English
Edition: 2023
ISBN: 9789394248007
Pages: 160
Cover: HARDCOVER
Other Details 9.00 X 6.00 inch
Weight 350 gm
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Hinduism is essentially a spoken tradition, and sound is the primary means of spiritual expression. Speech is personified as Vak, a form of goddess Sarasvati. As the deity of scholarship and the arts, Sarasvati (right) symbolises the intimate relationship within Hinduism between culture and religion, which until recently were practically inseparable.

There are 64 traditional arts, which comprise a wide variety of skills, crafts, and artistic activities including music, painting, sculpture, singing, cooking, architecture, creating colourful patterns, applying cosmetics, producing perfumes, flower arranging, and caring for trees. The word for culture is Sanskriti, "refinement," suggesting a means for extracting the spiritual essence of life (Brahman)."Sanskrit" similarly means "the most refined language."

The four Vedas were written in ancient Sanskrit, perhaps the oldest Indo- European language. It was largely spoken by brahmanas and was less well understood by others, who spoke simpler variations called Prakrits, "natural languages."

The ancient rivalry between North and South extends to language. The North insists on the primacy of Sanskrit texts, and considers Sanskrit the only genuine "sacred language."

About the Author

Theodor Goldstucker (also Theodore: January 18, 1821 March 6, 1872) was a German Sanskrit scholar.

He was born of Jewish parents in Königsberg, Prussia. After attending the gymnasium of that town, he entered its university in 1836 as a student of Sanskrit.

As Literary Remains some of his writings were published in two volumes (London,1879), but his papers were left to the India Office with the request that they were not to be published until 1920.

In 1838 he removed to Bonn, and, after graduating at Königsberg in 1840, proceeded to Paris; in 1842 he edited a German translation of the Prabodhacandrodaya by Kṛṣṇamiśra Yati (fl. c. 1050-1100), a standard text widely read by Sanskrit students in India. From 1847 to 1850 he resided at Berlin, where his talents and scholarship were recognized by Alexander von Humboldt, but where his political views caused the authorities to regard him with suspicion. He was asked to leave Berlin during the revolutions of 1848 in the German states. In 1850 he moved to London at the invitation of H. H. Wilson. In 1852 he was appointed professor of Sanskrit in University College London. He worked on a new edition of Wilson's Sanskrit dictionary, of which the first instalment appeared in 1856. But his work became infeasibly long and detailed, and publication of the dictionary ground to a halt. In 1861 he published his best known work Panini: his place in Sanscrit Literature. He was the founder of the Sanskrit Text Society (four volumes appeared); he was also an active member of the Philological Society, of which he was president at the time of his death; and of other learned bodies. He died in London.

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