10-07-2007, 11:12 PM
People who know Sanskrit, i got a few questions:
1) How different are Vedic and Classical Sanskrit, if you learn one can you understand the other?
2) If you learn spoken Sanskrit as it is spoken & written today, would you understand a 15th cent Sanskrit text like say "Madhuravijayam" by Gangadevi, for example most Tamils & Telugu people (unless they are experts) cannot understand stuff from that period even if it's in the same language because a lot of pronounciations & words changed, is it the same case with Sanskrit?
1) How different are Vedic and Classical Sanskrit, if you learn one can you understand the other?
2) If you learn spoken Sanskrit as it is spoken & written today, would you understand a 15th cent Sanskrit text like say "Madhuravijayam" by Gangadevi, for example most Tamils & Telugu people (unless they are experts) cannot understand stuff from that period even if it's in the same language because a lot of pronounciations & words changed, is it the same case with Sanskrit?