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The Bhagavadgītā : with an introductory essay, Sanskrit text, English translation and notes

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The King and The Potter Sanskrit Story with meaning in Sanskrit

राजा कुलालः च ( The King and The Potter)

एकस्मिन् ग्रामे एकः कुलालः पत्न्या सह सुखेन् अजीवत्।  सः प्रतिदिनं परिश्रमेण बहून घटान् निर्माय विक्रयणं अकरोत्। जनाः अपि अधिकेन धनेन् घटं क्रीणन्ति स्म। 

अतः सः दुःखेन विना जीवनम् अयापयत्। एकदा कुलालः निर्मितान घटान् आत्मानम् उभयतः स्थापयित्वा नूतनघटनिर्माणे मग्नः आसीत्।  तदा सः दृढम अवलम्बनं विना कार्यं कुर्वन आसीत्। 

 सः कदाचित् अकस्मात् घाटनाम् उपरि एव अपतत्।  तेन कुलालस्य ललाटे महान क्षतः सञ्जातः।  कालान्तरे सः क्षतः उपशान्तः अपि तस्य ललाटे क्षतचिह्नं तथैव आसीत्।  

एकदा कुलालस्य ग्रामे क्षामः अभवत्।  तदा ग्रामं परितः विद्यमानाः जनाः एवं अचिन्तयन् यत् जलं विना अस्माकं जीवनं कष्ठं भवति।

अतः वयं सर्वे किञ्चित कालम् यावत् नगरम् प्रति गच्छामः। तत्र यत्किमपि कार्यं कृत्वा जीवनं यापयामः इति कुलालः अपि अन्यैः जनैः सह नगरम अगच्छत।   

तस्मिन् नगरे कुलालः एकस्य महाराजस्य सेवकः अभवत।  एकदा राजा कुलालस्य गम्भीरं आकारं, क्षतचिह्नन सह तस्य ललाटं च दृष्ट्वा निश्चयेन अयं कश्चित् वीरपुरुषः भवेत्। 

युद्धसमये एतस्य ललाटे क्षतः जातः स्यात् इति निश्चित्य तं कुलालं सेनानायकं अकरोत्। कुलालः अपि संतोषेण कालम् अयापयत्।      

एकदा नगरम् परितः शत्रवः आगच्छन्।  युद्धस्य अवसरः च सञ्जातः।  महाराजा अपि मम आस्थाने नूतनः वीरपुरुषः आगतः अस्ति। तं युद्धार्थं प्रेषयामि इति चिन्तयन कुलालम् आहूय युद्धार्थं गच्छ इति आदिष्टवान्।

तदा प्रणाभीत्या कुलालः महाराज! अहं वस्तुतः न वीरपुरुषः किन्तु कुलालः अस्मि। मम ललाटे स्थितः क्षतः अपि युद्धे शस्त्रप्रहारेण न सञ्जातः किन्तु घटस्य उपरि पटनेन इति अवदत्। 

तया वार्तया कुपितः राजाः अरे! धूर्त अलम् तव उत्तरेण। एतावत्कालं माम् अवञ्चयथाः। अस्तु तथापि अहम् त्वं न दण्डयामि। अन्यथा सेनानायकपदव्याम् अयोग्यं त्वां नियुक्तवान् इति सर्वे अपि मां परिहसेयुः।  अतः शीघ्रमेव इति गच्छ इति अवदत्।  कुलालः अपि झटिति अधावत्।  

The King and The Potter Sanskrit Story with meaning in English

In a certain village, there lived a potter with his wife. Everyday with great effort he made a lots of pots and sold them. People also paid a lot of money and bought his pots.

So, he lived without any worries. Once, he had placed pots made by him on both side and was immersed in making a pots. He was making the pot, without holding it firmly. By accident, he fell over the pots. He got a big gash on his forehead. Overtime the wound healed, but it left a big scar on his forehead.

Once there was a drought in his village. The people in the village thought that without water we cannot live. So, for some time we will all go to the city. There we will do some job or the other and make a living. The potter also along with the other people went to the city.

In the city, the potter worked for the King for some time. Once the king, looking at his good physique and his upright bearing, thought that he must have earned his big scar in battle. He was sure that the potter was a great warrior.

Determining that he must have eared the scar in battle, the king made the potter the general of the army. The potter also spent the time.

Once the enemies of the king surrounded the city. War was imminent. The king also thought " In my kingdom there is a new warrior ready for battle". He called the potter to take part in the war.

But the potter fearing for his life, said, "In reality, I am not a great warrior, but only a potter. The scar on my forehead also was not earned in battle, but by falling on some pots."

The king was angered and said, "You cheat! You have fooled me all this time. I will certainly punish you". "But people will laugh at me for putting a rascal in the place of a general. So therefore run away quickly." The potter sped fast.

The King and The Potter Sanskrit Story with meaning in Hindi

राजा और कुम्हार(The King and The Potter)

एक गांव में एक कुम्हार अपनी पत्नी के साथ रहता था। वह प्रतिदिन बड़ी मेहनत से ढेर सारे बर्तन बनाकर बेचता था। लोगों ने भी खूब पैसे देकर उसके बर्तन खरीदे।

इसलिए, वह बिना किसी चिंता के रहते थे। एक बार तो उन्होंने अपने बनाए हुए मटके दोनों तरफ रख दिए थे और मटके बनाने में डूबे हुए थे। वह घड़ा बना रहा था, बिना मजबूती से पकड़े। संयोग से वह बर्तनों के ऊपर गिर गया। उसके माथे पर एक बड़ा घाव हो गया। समय के साथ घाव भर गया, लेकिन इसने उसके माथे पर एक बड़ा निशान छोड़ दिया।

एक बार उनके गांव में अकाल पड़ा। गांव के लोगों ने सोचा कि पानी के बिना हम नहीं रह सकते। इसलिए कुछ देर के लिए हम सब शहर जाएंगे। वहां हम कोई न कोई काम करेंगे और अपना गुजारा करेंगे। कुम्हार भी अन्य लोगों के साथ नगर को चला गया।

नगर में कुम्हार ने कुछ समय तक राजा के यहाँ काम किया। एक बार राजा ने उसकी अच्छी काया और उसके सीधे-सादे हाव-भाव को देखकर सोचा कि उसने युद्ध में अपना बड़ा दाग कमाया होगा। उन्हें यकीन था कि कुम्हार एक महान योद्धा था।

यह निर्धारित करते हुए कि उसने युद्ध में निशान को कान लगाया होगा, राजा ने कुम्हार को सेना का सेनापति बना दिया। कुम्हार ने भी समय बिताया।

एक बार राजा के शत्रुओं ने नगर को घेर लिया। युद्ध आसन्न था। राजा ने भी सोचा "मेरे राज्य में एक नया योद्धा युद्ध के लिए तैयार है"। उसने कुम्हार को युद्ध में भाग लेने के लिए बुलाया।

लेकिन कुम्हार ने अपने जीवन के लिए डरते हुए कहा, "वास्तव में, मैं एक महान योद्धा नहीं, बल्कि केवल एक कुम्हार हूं। मेरे माथे का निशान भी युद्ध में नहीं, बल्कि कुछ बर्तनों पर गिरने से अर्जित किया गया था।"

राजा को गुस्सा आया और उसने कहा, "तुम धोखा देते हो! तुमने मुझे इस बार मूर्ख बनाया है। मैं निश्चित रूप से तुम्हें दंड दूंगा"। "लेकिन लोग मुझ पर एक जनरल के स्थान पर बदमाश लगाने के लिए हँसेंगे। इसलिए जल्दी से भाग जाओ।" कुम्हार तेजी से भागा।

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panchatantra story in sanskrit | पंचतंत्र की कहानी संस्कृत में

बिलस्य वाणी न कदापि मे श्रुता

कस्मिंश्चित् वने खरनखरः नाम सिंहः प्रतिवसति स्म। स: कदाचित् बुभुक्षया इतस्तत: भ्रमन् आसित्।

परन्तु कमपि मृगं न प्राप्तवान्। ततः सूर्यास्तमनसमये पर्वते महतीं गुहां दृष्टवान्।

तत्र गत्वा चिन्तितवान्। “अत्र कोऽपि मृगः रात्रौ निश्चयेन आगमिष्यति।

अतः अहम् अत्रैव गुप्तः तिष्ठामि। ततः तस्याः गुहायाः निवासी दधिपुच्छः नाम शृगालः आगतवान्।

सः गुहां प्रविष्टस्य सिंहस्य पदपद्धतिं दृष्टवान्, न तु बहिः आगतस्य। ततः चिन्तितवान्।

“अहो ! किमिदम्? गुहायाः अन्तः सिंहः स्यात्।

किं करोमि? कथं जानामि?

एवं विचिन्त्य गुहायाः द्वारे स्थित्वा उच्चैः आहूतवान्। “अहो बिल ! अहो बिल !

कञ्चित् कालं तूष्णीं भूत्वा पुनः तथैव उक्तवान्। “भोः ! किमर्थं न वदसि ?

प्रतिदिनं यदा अहम् आगच्छामि तदा मया तव आह्वानं क्रियते।

त्वया च मम उत्तरं दीयते। यदि मम उत्तरं न प्रयच्छसि, तर्हि अहम् अन्यबिलं गमिष्यामि।

शृगालस्य वचनं श्रुत्वा सिंहः चिन्तितवान्। ” नूनं यदा सः आगच्छति तदा एषा गुहा प्रतिदिनम् उत्तरं ददाति।

अद्य तु मद्भयात् न वदति। अथवा साध्विदम् उच्यते-

भयसन्त्रस्तमनसां हस्तपादादिकाः क्रियाः। प्रवर्तन्ते न वाणी च वेपथुश्चाधिको भवते्।।

अतः अहमेव तम् आह्वयामि।

तत् श्रुत्वा प्रविष्टं शृगालम् अहं भक्षयामि। तथैव सिंहेन आह्वानं कृतम्।

सिंहनादस्य प्रतिध्वनिना गुहा पूर्णा।

वने दूरे स्थिताः अन्ये मृगाः अपि भीताः अभवन्। शृगालः झटिति पलायनं कृतवान्।

अत एव उच्यते:-

अनागतं यः कुरुते स शोभते स शोच्यते यो न करोत्यनागतम् । वनेऽत्र संस्थस्य समागता जरा बिलस्य वाणी न कदापि मे श्रुता ॥

Panchatantra storie in sanskrit | चत्वारि मित्राणि

पंचतंत्र की कहानी संस्कृत में हिंदी अनुवाद के साथ

बिलस्य वाणी न कदापि मे श्रुता – हिंदी अनुवाद.

एक जंगल में खरनखर नाम का एक शेर रहता था। एक बार, वह भूख के कारण यहाँ-वहाँ घूम रहा था।

लेकिन उसे कोई जानवर नहीं मिला। सूर्यास्त तक, उसने एक पहाड़ में एक बड़ी गुफा देखी।

उसने वहाँ जाकर सोचा। कुछ जानवर रात तक यहां जरूर आएंगे।

इसलिए, मैं यहां छिपा रहूंगा। तब दधीच नाम का एक सियार, जो उस गुफा में रहता था, आया।

उसने शेर के पैरों के निशानों को देखा, गुफा के अंदर जा रहे थे लेकिन बाहर नहीं आ रहे थे। फिर उसने सोचा।

ओह! यह क्या है? गुफा के अंदर एक शेर हो सकता है। मुझे क्या करना चाहिए? मुझे कैसे पता चलेगा?

इस प्रकार सोचते हुए, गुफा के दरवाजे पर खड़े होकर उसने जोर से पुकारा। हे गुफा ! हे गुफा !

कुछ समय के लिए, वह चुप रहा, और फिर, उसने वही बात कही। हे गुफा! आप बोलते क्यों नहीं?

हर दिन, जब मैं आता हूं, तो में आपको पुकारा करता हूं। और आप मुझे जवाब देते है।

यदि आप मुझे कोई उत्तर नहीं देते हैं, तो मैं दूसरी गुफा में चला जाऊंगा। सियार की बातें सुनकर शेर ने सोचा।

हो सकता है, जब वह आता है, तब, यह गुफा हर दिन जवाब देती है। लेकिन आज, यह मुझसे डर के कारण नहीं बोल रही है।

अथवा ठीक ही यह कहते हैं-

‘भय से डरे हुए मन वाले लोगों के हाथ और पैर से होने वाली क्रियाएँ ठीक तरह से नहीं होती हैं और वाणी भी ठीक काम नहीं करती; कम्पन (घबराहट) भी अध्कि होता है।’

इसलिए, मैं उसे खुद आमंत्रित करूंगा। जब वह यह सुनकर अंदर प्रवेश करेगा तो मैं सियार को खा जाऊंगा।

इस प्रकार, शेर ने दहाड़ लगाई। शेर की दहाड़ की आवाज से गुफा भर गई।

यहां तक ​​कि जंगल में दूर रहने वाले अन्य जानवर भी डर गए। सियार भी भाग गया।

जो आने वाले कल का (आगे आने वाली संभावित आपदा का) उपाय करता है, वह संसार में शोभा पाता है और जो आने वाले कल का उपाय नहीं करता है (आनेवाली संभावित विपत्ति के निराकरण का उपाय नहीं करता) वह दुखी होता है। यहाँ वन में रहते मेरा बुढ़ापा आ गया (परन्तु) मेरे द्वारा (मैंने) कभी भी बिल की वाणी नहीं सुनी गई।

Panchatantra story in Sanskrit with English translation

बिलस्य वाणी न कदापि मे श्रुता – english translation.

In a forest there lived a lion named kharanakhara. Once, he was roaming here and there with hunger.

But he did not find any animal. By sunset, he saw a big cave in a mountain.

He went there and thought. Some animal will definitely come here by night.

Hence, I will stay here hidden. Then a jackal named Dadhipuccha, who lived in that cave, came.

He saw the footsteps of the lion, going into the cave, but not coming out. Then he thought.

Oh ! What is this? There might be a lion inside the cave.mWhat shall I do? How will I know?

Thinking thus, standing at the cave door, he called out aloud. O Cave ! O Cave !

For some time, he kept silent, and again, he said the same thing. O ! why do you not speak?

Every day, when I come, I call you. And you reply me.

If you do not give me a reply, I will go to another cave. On hearing the jackal’s words, the lion thought.

May be, when he comes, then, this cave replies every day. But today, it does not speak because of fear from me.

Or rightly it says-

The actions of the hands and feet of people with fear of fear are not done properly and speech also does not work properly; Vibration (nervousness) is also more.

Hence, I shall invite him myself. I shall eat the jackal when he enters hearing it.

Thus, the lion called out. The cave was filled with the sound of the lion’s roar.

Even other animals that were far away in the forest became scared. The jackal ran away at once.

One who foresees ( acts according to ) the future will succeed. One who doesn’t will regret. I have grown old living in the forest, and have never yet heard the voice of a cave.

यह भी पढ़ें

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What To Do with the Past?: Sanskrit Literary Criticism in Postcolonial Space

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Throughout its history of almost a millennium and a half, Sanskrit kāvyaśāstra was resolutely obsessed with the task of unravelling the ontology kāvya (literary prose and poetry). Literary theoreticians in Sanskrit, irrespective of their spatio-temporal locations, unanimously agreed upon the fact that kāvya was a special mode of expression (distinctly different from the ordinary form of speech) characterized by the presence of certain unique linguistic elements. Nonetheless, this did not imply that kāvyaśāstra was an intellectual tradition unmarked by disagreements. The real point of contention among the practitioners of Sanskrit literary theory was the prioritization of certain formal elements as the ‘soul’ of literature. This strong sense of intellectual disagreement on the question of what constituted the soul of kāvya eventually paved the way for the emergence of new frameworks of criticism and extensive scrutiny of the existing categories, thus playing a vital role in keeping this tradition alive and new.

But towards the turn of the 20th century, Sanskrit kāvyaśāstra tradition underwent an epistemic rupture primarily because of a change in the way the idea of literariness was understood. During this phase, the traditional Formalistic notions about literature (to which Sanskrit kāvyaśāstra conformed) underwent a radical transformation, and the style and language of literature eventually became similar to everyday speech. This trend played an important role in severing Sanskrit kāvyaśāstra ’s natural tie with literature. Eventually, the vigour in which new treatises in Sanskrit literary poetics were produced also dwindled. This did not mean that the scholarship ( pāṇḍitya ) in Sanskrit poetics vanished. Scholars in Sanskrit poetics continued to flourish in India, but in a different form and shape. In other words, the focus of scholars in Sanskrit poetics slowly got shifted from the production of new treatises in Sanskrit poetics to the creation of the intellectual history of this field and the application of these theories to evaluate the literary merit of modern literary texts. Though these two approaches played a vital role in disseminating the knowledge about Sanskrit poetics in modern times, they were caught up in an ontological certitude. In other words, neither of these two directions attempted to study these theoretical positions from a standpoint other than that of literary theory. To borrow a Barthian terminology, these two approaches treated Sanskrit poetics as a ‘work,’ instead of a ‘Text.’ This paper aims to intervene in this lacuna of scholarship by proposing the Derridian idea of ‘play’ as a methodological framework to unearth the potentialities lying dormant in these theories and to move beyond the ontological certitude traditionally imposed on these theoretical positions. The new methodological praxis that I put forward in this paper is further exemplified through a non-canonical reading of Ānandavardhana’s avivakṣita - vācya - dhvani ( dhvani where the literal meaning is not intended).

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Hemacandra in Kāvyānuśāsana observed that it is the presence of four components such as śabda (word), artha (meaning), guṇa (poetic quality) and alaṅkāra (figures of speech) that constitutes a kāvya (I.22). Vāgbhaṭa II delimited the ambit of kāvya by defining it as a composition of śabda (word) and artha (meaning) marked by the absence of doṣa s and the presence of guṇa s and alaṅkāra s (14). Mammaṭa observed that kāvya is composed of flawless words and sense adorned with merits and excellences of style (I.4). In Candrāloka , Jayadeva also set the limit of poetic expression by defining kāvya as a verbal icon characterized by the absence of doṣa s and the presence of lakṣaṇā (deviant utterance), rīti (diction or style; literally means ‘path’), guṇa , alaṅkāra , rasa (aesthetic emotion) and vṛtti (linguistic modality) (I.7). Vidyānātha in Pratāparudrīya saw kāvya as a special composition of both gadya (prose) and padya (poetry) bereft of doṣa s and adorned by guṇa , alaṅkāra , śabda and artha (II.1). Bhaṭṭa Nāyaka talked about three crucial components that were conspicuously absent in other uses of language and present only in kāvya . According to him, these three elements were abhidhāyakatva (denotative function), bhāvakatva (ability to evoke aesthetic experience) and bhogakṛttva (the experience of aesthetic emotion). In his commentary on Dhvanyāloka , Abhinavagupta reproduced this view of Bhaṭṭa Nāyaka ( Locana 2.4 L ). Kuntaka opined that the figurative deviation of speech ( vakrokti ) makes kāvya different from ordinary expression and the use of language in śāstras (291). According to Bhoja, although poetry is called the combination of word and meaning, not all compositions of word and meaning could claim the status of a kāvya . In Śṛṅgāraprakāśa , Bhoja made a clear distinction between kāvya and other linguistic genres based on the nature of language employed in them. According to Bhoja, workaday language is the explicit language of science and daily life. On the other hand, kāvya was the deviant language found in texts teeming with aesthetic pleasure (I;221). We can see this view of kāvya as a special linguistic category with complex literary conventions and elaborate metrical schemes, unchangingly going down the line till the end of the active phase in Sanskrit literary culture in the seventeenth century, with Jagannātha observing that kāvya is a special combination of word and meaning, with beautiful words denoting noble significations ( ramaṇīyārthapradipādakaḥ śabdaḥ kāvyaṃ ; 4).

gatoऽstamarko bhātīnduryānti vāsāya pakṣiṇaḥ| ityevamādi kim kāvyaṃ vārtāmenāṃ pracakṣate || (Ibid. II.87).

saiṣā sarvaiva vakroktiranayārtho vibhāvyate | yatnoऽsyāṃ kavinā kāryaḥ koऽlaṅkāroऽnayā vinā || ( Kāvyālaṅkāra 2.85). Ānandavardhana in Dhvanyāloka repeats this idea. See ( Dhvanyāloka 3.36) .

rītirātmā kāvyasya | ( Kāvyālaṅkārasūtravṛtti I.2.6).

Ānandavardhana is indirectly criticizing literary theoreticians like Bhāmaha, Daṇḍin and Vāmana who opine that kāvya is primarily a combination of śabda and artha (sound and sense). For detailed reading, see Bhāmaha (I.16), Daṇḍin (I.10) and Vāmana (I.1).

asphuṭasphuritam kāvyatattvametadyathoditam |

aśaknuvadbhirvyākartum rītayaḥ saṃpravartitāḥ || ( Dhvanyāloka III.46 K)

śabrarthau sahitau vakrakavivyāpāraśālini | bandhe vyavasthitau kāvyam tadvidāhlādakāriṇi ( Vakroktijīvita I.7).

vakroktiḥ prasiddhābhidhānavyatirekiṇī vicitraivābhidhā | (Ibid. kārikā on I.10).

ubhau dvāvapyetau śabdārthāvalaṅkāryāvalaṅkaraṇīyau kenāpi śobhātiśayakāriṇālaṅkaraṇena yojanīyau | kim tat tayoralaṅkaraṇamityabhidhīyate—tayoḥ punaralaṅkṛtiḥ | tayordvitvasaṅkhyāviśiṣṭayorapyalaṅkṛtiḥ punarekaiva yayā dvāvapyalaṅkriyete | kāsau—vakroktireva | vakroktiḥ prasidhābhidhānavyatirekiṇī vicitraivābhidhā || (Ibid. I.10)

I would like to point out the two opposing views regarding the evolution of Sanskrit poetics. While scholars like Kane and De follow the classification of Sanskrit poetics along the lines of guṇa and rīti , McCrea (2008) rejects it. For Kane and De’s views, see respectively History of Sanskrit Poetics , p. 372 and History of Sanskrit Poetics Vol II, 32. For McCrea’s view, see The Teleology of Poetics In Medieval Kashmir , pp. 30–31.

iha viśiṣṭau śabdārthau kāvyam | tayośca vaiśiṣtyam dharmamukhena, vyāpāramukhena, vyaṅgyamukhena, vā iti trayaḥ pakṣāḥ | ādyeऽpyaalaṅkārato guṇato vā iti dvaividhyam | dvitīyeऽpi bhāṇītivaicitryeṇa bhogakṛttvena vā iti dvavidham| iti pañcaṣu pakṣeṣvādya udbhaṭādibhirāṅgīkṛtaḥ, dvitīyo vāmanena, tritīyo vakroktijīvitakāreṇa, caturtho bhaṭṭanāyakena, pañcama ānandavardhanena | (Samudrabandha, commentary on Alaṅkārasarvasva 4). Samudrabandha, a twelfth century Sanskrit critic from Kerala, is known for his commentary on Ruyyaka’s Alaṅkārasarvasva .

For a detailed reading of the debate between navyas and prācīnas , see “Vastutas tu: Methodology and the New School of Sanskrit Poetics” by Bronner and Tubb.

Highlighting the popularity of Kāvyaprakāś , Maheśvara (17 C.E.), the author of Kāvyaprakāśādarśana , says that although a commentary of Kāvyaprakāśa is prepared in almost all houses, it still escapes the grasp of intellectuals by its innovative nature (Jhalakikar 39). For a detailed reading of commentarial tradition, see The Kāvyaprakāśa in the Benares-Centered Network of Sanskrit Learning by Cummins (2020).

For a review of all the works in Sanskrit poetics ever published in India, see An Annotated Bibliography of the Alaṃkāraśāstra by Timothy C. Cahill. A note of warning should be sounded now: though Sanskrit kāvyaśāstra texts continued to get produced in the 19th century, the amount of original thought that went into these texts remains to be determined. Any categorical observation about the originality of these texts in terms of their interaction with the tradition requires a great amount of work. However, one thing we can say for certain is that none of these texts composed during the colonial period could become landmarks in the history of Sanskrit poetics as Jagannātha’s Rasagaṅgādhara or Appayya Dīkṣita’s Kuvalayānanda could do in the previous epoch.

For detailed reading of modern works in Sanskrit, especially of those from the 19th and 20th century, read Radha Vallabh Tripathi’s “Modern Writings in Sanskrit: A Resume.” Tripathi notes that “Modern Sanskrit writers made a departure from their age-old literary traditions by the way to looking towards vernaculars and European languages also” (169).

guṇadoṣānaśāstrajñaḥ kathaṃ vibhajate janaḥ| kimandhasyādhikāroऽsti rūpabhedopalabdhiṣu|| ( Kāvyādarśa I.8).

na vidyate yadyapi pūrvavāsanā

guṇānubandhi pratibhānamadbhutam |

śrutena yattena ca vāgupāsitā dhruvam karotyeva kamapyanugraham || (Ibid. I.104).

śabdābhidheye vijñāya kṛtvā tadvidupāsanaṃ |

vilokyānyanibandhāmśca kāryaḥ kāvyakriyādaraḥ || ( Kāvyālaṅkāra I.10).

sa doṣaguṇālaṅkārahānādānābhyāṃ|

sa khalvalaṅkāro doṣahānāt guṇālaṅkārādānācca sampādyaḥ kaveḥ || śāstrataste || te doṣaguṇālaṅkārahānādāne śāstrādasmāt ||

śāstrato hi jñātvā doṣāñjahyāt guṇālaṅkārāṃscādadīta || ( Kāvyālaṇkārasūtravṛtti I.1.3-4).

śāstrapūrvakatvāt kāvyānāṃ pūṛva śāstreṣvabhiniviśeta | nahyapravrtitapradipāste tavārdhasārdhamadhyakṣyanti |(Rājaśekhara, Kāvyamīmāṃsa 20)

K.C Anthappayi’s Bhāṣānāṭakapariśodhana is a case in point. In this work, Anthappayi criticizes the predilection of Malayalam playwrights for Sanskrit dramas. He also opines that critics should do away with the guṇanirūpaṇam (analysis of literary merits) of Malayalam dramas based on the parameters of literariness set by Sanskrit poetics.

For a detailed reading of the role that Western literature played in the consolidation of colonial power in I ndia, see Gauri Viswanathan’s Masks of Conquest Literary Study and British Rule in I ndia .

Ontological certitude is the act of reducing the identity of an entity to a set of fixed assumptions.

vyañjakatvam hi kvacit vācakatvāśrayeṇa vyavatiṣṭhate| yathā vivakṣitānyaparavācye dhvanau| kvacittu guṇavṛttyāśrayeṇa| yathā avivakṣitānyaparavācye dhvanau| tadubhayāśrayatvapratipādanāyaiva ca dhvaneḥ prathamataram dvau prabhedāvupanyastau. (Ibid., p. 427).

See the complete verse from Dhvanyāloka. gaganam ca mattamekham dhārālulitarjunāni ca vanāni |

nirahaṅkāramṛgāṅkā haranti nīlā api niśāḥ || (273).

ayamapi na doṣaḥ | yasmāt avivakṣitavācyo dhvaniḥ guṇavṛttimārgāśrayoऽpi bhavati, na tu guṇavṛttirūpa eva | guṇavṛttirḥ vyañjakatvaśūnyāpi dṛśyate | (432).

Ānandavardhana cites a lot of examples where dhvani does not occur even in the presence of gauṇavṛtti (secondary usage). A case in point is the word lāvaṇya. Ānanda observes, “Words such as lāvaṇya, which are used idiomatically in a sense other than their proper (etymological) sense, are never instances of dhvani” (184). rūḍhā ye viṣayeऽnyatra śabdāḥ svaviṣayādapi | lāvaṇyādyāḥ prayuktāste na bhavanti padam dhvaneḥ || (Ibid., p. 147).

ata eva vācakatvāttasya viśeṣḥ vācakatvam hi śabdaviśeṣasya niyata ātmā, vyulpattikālādārabhya tadavinābhāvena tasya prasiddhatvāt | sa tvaniyataḥ aupādhikatvāt | prakaraṇādyavacchedena tasya pratīteḥ itarathā tvaprātīteḥ |(436-437)

kintu tadeva kevalam aparimitaviṣayasya dhvanivyavahārasya na prayodanakam avyāpakatvāt | tathā darśitabhedatrayarūpam tālparyeṇa dyotyamānam abhiprāyarūpam anabhiprāyarūpam ca

sarvameva dhvanivyavahārasya prayojakamiti yathoktavyañjakatvaviśeṣedhvanilakṣaṇe nātivyāptiḥ na

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ब्रह्मा मुरारीस्त्रिपुरांतकारी भानुः शशि भूमिसुतो बुधश्च। गुरुश्च शुक्रः शनिराहुकेतवेः कुर्वन्तु सर्वे मम सु प्रभातम्।।3।।

सनत्कुमारः सनकः सनन्दनः सनातनोऽप्यासुरिपिङगलौ च। सप्त स्वराः सप्त रसातलानि कुर्वन्तु सर्वे मम सुप्रभातम्।।4।।

सप्तार्णवा सप्त कुलाचलाश्च सप्तर्षयो द्वीपवनानि सप्त। भूरादिकृत्वा भुवनानि सप्त कुर्वन्तु सर्वे मम सुप्रभातम्।।5।।

पृथ्वी सगन्धा सरसास्तथापः स्पर्शी च वायुज्र्वलनं च तेजः। नभः सशब्दं महता सहैव कुर्वन्तु सर्वे मम सुप्रभातम्।।6।।

प्रातः स्मरणमेतद्यो विदित्वादरतः पठेत्। स सम्यक्धर्मनिष्ठः स्यात् अखण्डं भारतं स्मरेत्।। 7।।

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Sanskrit language , (from Sanskrit saṃskṛta , “adorned, cultivated , purified”), an Old Indo-Aryan language in which the most ancient documents are the Vedas , composed in what is called Vedic Sanskrit . Although Vedic documents represent the dialects then found in the northern midlands of the Indian subcontinent and areas immediately east thereof, the very earliest texts—including the Rigveda (“The Veda Composed in Verses”), which scholars generally ascribe to approximately 1500 bce —stem from the northwestern part of the subcontinent, the area of the ancient seven rivers ( sapta sindhavaḥ ).

What is generally called Classical Sanskrit —but is actually a language close to late Vedic as then used in the northwest of the subcontinent—was elegantly described in one of the finest grammars ever produced, the Aṣṭādhyāyī (“Eight Chapters”) composed by Pāṇini ( c. 6th–5th century bce ). The Aṣṭādhyāyī in turn was the object of a rich commentatorial literature, documents of which are known from the time of Kātyāyana (4th–3rd century bce ) onward. In the same Pāṇinian tradition there was a long history of work on semantics and the philosophy of language , the pinnacle of which is represented by the Vākyapadīya (“Treatise on Sentence and Word”) of Bhartṛhari (late 6th–7th century ce ).

Over its long history, Sanskrit has been written both in Devanāgarī script and in various regional scripts, such as Śāradā from the north ( Kashmir ), Bāṅglā (Bengali) in the east, Gujarātī in the west, and various southern scripts, including the Grantha alphabet , which was especially devised for Sanskrit texts. Sanskrit texts continue to be published in regional scripts, although in fairly recent times Devanāgarī has become more generally used.

There is a large corpus of literature in Sanskrit covering a wide range of subjects. The earliest compositions are the Vedic texts. There are also major works of drama and poetry , although the exact dates of many of these works and their creators have not been definitively established. Important authors and works include Bhāsa (for example, his Svapnavāsvavadatta [“Vāsavadatta in a Dream”]), who is assigned widely varying dates but definitely worked prior to Kālidāsa, who mentions him; Kālidāsa , dated anywhere from the 1st century bce to the 4th century ce , whose works include Śakuntalā (more fully, Abhijñānaśākuntala ; “Śakuntalā Recalled Through Recognition” or “The Recognition of Śakuntalā”), Vikramorvaśīya (“Urvaśī Won Through Valour”), Kumārasambhava (“The Birth of Kumāra”), and Raghuvaṃśa (“The Lineage of Raghu”); Śūdraka and his Mṛcchakatika (“Little Clay Cart”), possibly dating to the 3rd century ce ; Bhāravi and his Kirātārjunīya (“Arjuna and the Kirāta”), from approximately the 7th century; Māgha , whose Śiśupālavadha (“The Slaying of Śiśupāla”) dates to the late 7th century; and from about the early 8th century Bhavabhūti , who wrote Mahāvīracarita (“Deeds of the Great Hero”), Mālatīmādhava (“Mālatī and Mādhava”), and Uttararāmacarita (“The Last Deed of Rāma”). The two epics Rāmāyaṇa (“Life of Rāma”) and Mahābhārata (“Great Tale of the Bhāratas”) were also composed in Sanskrit, and the former is esteemed as the first poetic work ( ādikāvya ) of India . The Pañcatantra (“Treatise in Five Chapters”) and Hitopadeśa (“Beneficial Instruction”) are major representatives of didactic literature. Sanskrit was also used as the medium for composing treatises of various philosophical schools, as well as works on logic, astronomy, and mathematics.

Sanskrit is not restricted to Hindu compositions. It has also been used by Jaina and Buddhist scholars, the latter primarily Mahāyāna Buddhists. Further, Sanskrit is recognized in the constitution of India as both a classical language and an official language and continues to be used in scholarly, literary, and technical media, as well as in periodicals, radio, television, and film.

In its grammatical structure, Sanskrit is similar to other early Indo-European languages such as Greek and Latin . It is an inflected language. For instance, the Sanskrit nominal system—including nouns, pronouns, and adjectives—has three genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), three numbers (singular, dual, and plural), and seven syntactic cases (nominative, accusative, instrumental, dative, ablative, genitive, and locative), in addition to a vocative. However, a full set of distinct forms occurs only in the singular of masculine -a- stems of the type deva- ‘god’: nominative devas ( devaḥ before a pause), accusative devam , instrumental devena , dative devāya , ablative devāt , genitive devasya , locative deve , and vocative deva .

Adjectives are inflected to agree with nouns, and there are distinct pronominal forms for certain cases: e.g., tasmai , tasmāt , tasmin (masculine-neuter dative, ablative, and locative singular, respectively) ‘that one.’

Verbs inflect for tense , mode, voice , number, and person. These may be illustrated by third-person active forms of pac ‘cook, bake’ (used if cooking is done for someone other than the agent), including the present indicative pacati ‘cooks, is cooking’; the proximate future pakṣyati ‘will cook,’ referring to an act that will take place at some time in the future, possibly including the day on which one is speaking; the non-proximate future paktā ‘will cook,’ referring to an act that will take place at some time in the future, excluding the day on which one is speaking; the aorist apākṣīt ‘cooked, has cooked,’ referring to an act completed in the general past, possibly including the day on which one speaks; the imperfect past apacat ‘cooked,’ referring to an act in the past, excluding the day on which one speaks; the perfect reportative papāca ‘cooked,’ referring to an act performed in the past, excluding the day of speaking, and which the speaker did not directly witness or is not personally aware; the imperative pacatu ‘should, must cook,’ expressing a command, request, or invitation to perform the act; the optative pacet , used in the same sense as the imperative; the precative pacyāt ‘may cook,’ expressing a wish; and the contrafactual conditional apakṣyat ‘if (he) cooked, if (he) had cooked, if (he) would cook, if (he) would have cooked.’ There are also middle forms (‘cook for oneself’) corresponding to the forms just cited: pacate ‘cooks, is cooking,’ pakṣyate ‘will cook,’ paktā ‘will cook,’ apakta ‘cooked, has cooked,’ apacata ‘cooked,’ pece ‘cooked,’ pacatām ‘should, must cook,’ pakṣīṣṭa ‘may cook,’ apakṣyata ‘if (I) cooked, if (I) had cooked, if (I) would cook, if (I) would have cooked.’ There is also a passive, as with the third singular present indicative pacyate ‘…is being cooked.’ Early Vedic preserves remnants of an earlier aspectual contrast between perfective and imperfective.

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Sanskrit is an ancient and classical language of India in which ever first book of the world Rigveda was compiled. It is also the world�s oldest language. Sanskrit, no doubt is no easy language for one to learn. In today�s world Sanskrit is now being taught in schools and colleges as a subject or an alternative subject.

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संस्कृत भाषा का महत्त्व पर संस्कृत में निबंध।

संस्कृतभाषायाः महत्त्वम् इति विषये संस्कृतभाषायां निबन्धः।

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'संस्कृतभाषायाः महत्त्वम्'।.

संस्कृतभाषा अस्माकं भारतदेशस्य प्राचीना भाषा अस्ति। संस्कृतभाषा सर्वभाषाणां जननी अस्ति। संस्कृतभाषा देवभाषा अस्ति इति मन्यते। संस्कृतभाषा सुरसा, सुबोधा सरला च अस्ति। कालिदासस्य, बाणस्य, भासस्य इत्यादिकवीनां च साहित्यरचनाः संस्कृतभाषायां सन्ति। वाल्मीकि-रामायणं, महर्षिव्यासस्य महाभारतं भास्कराचार्यस्य गणितविषयकग्रन्थाः अपि संस्कृतभाषायाम् एव सन्ति। सङ्गणकेषु उपयोजनाय अपि संस्कृतभाषा बहुः उपयुक्ता अस्ति। संस्कृतभाषायाः अध्ययनेन उच्चारणे शुद्धता वर्धते। संस्कृतभाषायाः कारणात् बुद्धिः विचाराः च संस्कारपूर्णाः भवन्ति। संस्कृतभाषा भारतीयसंस्कृतेः प्रतीकम् अस्ति।

'saṃskṛtabhāṣāyāḥ mahattvam'।

saṃskṛtabhāṣā asmākaṃ bhāratadeśasya prācīnā bhāṣā asti। saṃskṛtabhāṣā sarvabhāṣāṇāṃ jananī asti। saṃskṛtabhāṣā devabhāṣā asti iti manyate। saṃskṛtabhāṣā surasā, subodhā saralā ca asti। kālidāsasya, bāṇasya, bhāsasya ityādikavīnāṃ ca sāhityaracanāḥ saṃskṛtabhāṣāyāṃ santi। vālmīki-rāmāyaṇaṃ, maharṣivyāsasya mahābhārataṃ bhāskarācāryasya gaṇitaviṣayakagranthāḥ api saṃskṛtabhāṣāyām eva santi। saṅgaṇakeṣu upayojanāya api saṃskṛtabhāṣā bahuḥ upayuktā asti। saṃskṛtabhāṣāyāḥ adhyayanena uccāraṇe śuddhatā vardhate। saṃskṛtabhāṣāyāḥ kāraṇāt buddhiḥ vicārāḥ ca saṃskārapūrṇāḥ bhavanti। saṃskṛtabhāṣā bhāratīyasaṃskṛteḥ pratīkam asti।

Essay On Importance of Sanskrit Language

Sanskrit is one of the oldest languages in India. Sanskrit is the mother of all languages. Sanskrit is considered to be the language of the Gods. The Sanskrit language is beautiful, simple and easy to understand. The literary compositions of the great poets Kalidasa, Bana and Bhasa are in Sanskrit. The Valmiki Ramayana, Maharshi Vyasa’s Mahabharata and Bhaskaravcharya’s texts about mathematics are also in Sanskrit. Sanskrit is also very beneficial to use in computers. By studying Sanskrit, our speech gets clearer. Values are inculcated in the intellect and the thoughts by studying Sanskrit. Sanskrit is a symbol of the culture of India.

संस्कृत भाषा का महत्त्व पर निबंध।

संस्कृत भाषा हमारे भारतदेश की प्राचीन भाषा है। संस्कृत भाषा सभी भाषाओं की जननी है। संस्कृत भाषा को देवताओं की भाषा माना जाता है। संस्कृत भाषा बहुत सुंदर,सुबोध और सरल भाषा है। महाकवि कालिदास, कवि बाण और कवि भास की साहित्यिक रचनाएँ संस्कृत भाषा में हैं। वाल्मिकी रामायण, महर्षि व्यास का महाभारत और भास्कराचार्य के गणित के बारे में ग्रंथ भी संस्कृत भाषा में हैं। संगणकों में उपयोग के लिए भी संस्कृत भाषा बहुत उपयोगी है। संस्कृत भाषा सीखने से हमारे उच्चारण में शुद्धता बढ़ती है। संस्कृत भाषा पढ़ने से बुद्धि और विचार संस्कारपूर्ण होते हैं। संस्कृत भाषा भारत की संस्कृति का प्रतीक है।

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Sir, please give me a sanskrit essay on CAA

okay i will try

These essays are short and Really helpful. Dhanyavadaha

Thanks Rashmi for such a lovely comment.

Please write about mobile phone in sanskrit

Pls give me Sanskrit essay on doctor

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I need an essay on advantages of social media

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I need an essay on importance of mahakavya and types of mahakavya. Urgent Please

This is truly an exceptional effort. Please accept my heartfelt gratitude. Is it possible to have an essay on 'Ayurveda Ke Laabh' in Sanskrit

Thank you @Rakshita for your lovely comment. I will definitely try my best to provide you essay on ayurveda in sanskrit.

Please send paragraph in Sanskrit about ladakh climate season and vegetation

pls write essay on organic farming

In sanskrit on in Hindi?

HI, I want an essay on Subhashitani in sanskrit. Can you please help me.

I need an essay in Sanskrit on Shakuni of Mahabharat. Can you please assist me? My email is [email protected]. Thanks

I need essay on bhadrinath temple uttarkhand and chamundi temple Karnataka in sanskrit language

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Novel study worksheets on "harry potter and the chamber of secrets".

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