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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"research on the language and manuscripta in the langage was being spearheaded by Germany and other European countries"<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> Yes, which they could not accomplish without the help of Hindu Indians contributing many Hindu religious works (shlokas, epics, stories) in Samskritam to the main sites. I have seen 2 very large western-operated Samskritam sites. Practically all the contributions (definitely all the proper translations and useful works) originate from Hindu contributors. Unfortunately, at least one of these 2 large sites links to Indology organisations. Perhaps we should think of terminating all the assistance from our side until we know what the west plans to do with the study of our language and our Hindu documents on religion, philosophy, military strategies and other indigenous knowledge. Having mined away our material wealth, I can't help wondering whether these new colonials are now sifting for our accumulated wealth of knowledge. Perhaps there's a missionary tactic somewhere as well: trying to insert their lame Jesus sob-story or biblical non-events into our works whilst most of us are still ignorant of the language to recognise the original from the altered. Or perhaps it serves an indological reason: steal our works away and present them as 'Aryan inventions' not native to India. I wouldn't put any of it past them when these sites are willing to link to anti-Hindu indology sites.
More knowledge of Samskritam among Indologists and less knowledge of it among Indians would definitely put the Indology department at an advantage in debates. (This would be a situation that never occurred before, as even during British misrule, missionary 'research' and miscontruing of Indian scriptures, there was a significant Hindu population knowledgable in Samskrit to show us their errors and their faulty understanding.)
There is no doubt that Hindus should learn Samskritam again and that this should happen on a large-scale, but why do people in the west become surprised that the language has such little patronage in India today? The fact that the poverty of India became unimaginable during British rule was precisely due to colonialism (in spite of the west today being shocked at signs of great poverty still extant in India today - India's wealth took millennia to amasse and a century or two for Britain to drain away - how quickly does the west expect us to come up again?) Likewise, the reason for the dwindling usage and teaching of Samskritam in its native India is exactly because the missionaries equated the language with their invented and much-reviled 'brahminism'. Thanks to this western hatred of the Hindu use of Samskritam which created an Indian hatred for the same, we today have the communist Keralan government appointing a communist with no knowledge of the language as the head of the prestigious Samskritam teaching institution there (doubtless, he is positioned there only to destroy the college). And no doubt, this continues to fulfill foreign (Indological) and missionary interests in further bringing down remaining native Hindu usage and knowledge of our language.
India never did "research" on Samskrit (that's what people do with a language that is alien and unnatural to them) - it was our ancestral mother tongue. Though historically, when the language was still proudly recognised as our own, Hindu Indians have written and/or refined grammatical rules on Samskritam and patronised the writing of Hindu poetry and prose - besides its ongoing use as the lingua franca of philosophical treatises (including social and military).
Language is a very important part of any culture. Especially ancestral languages, since they often tend to be the one(s) used in the religious scriptures of a nation. Thus, by severing our natural ties to our mother tongue, the missionaries during the colonial era in one stroke achieved a lot of their designs for India. Today, we have Hindus unnable to defend incessantly false accusations of immorality and unethical behaviour or teachings in our religious scriptures merely because they do not have the knowledge of the language involved. They are unable to pick up the works being accused and look in them, read them for themselves and contradict the lies/feel comfortable knowing the truth again.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"research on the language and manuscripta in the langage was being spearheaded by Germany and other European countries"<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> Yes, which they could not accomplish without the help of Hindu Indians contributing many Hindu religious works (shlokas, epics, stories) in Samskritam to the main sites. I have seen 2 very large western-operated Samskritam sites. Practically all the contributions (definitely all the proper translations and useful works) originate from Hindu contributors. Unfortunately, at least one of these 2 large sites links to Indology organisations. Perhaps we should think of terminating all the assistance from our side until we know what the west plans to do with the study of our language and our Hindu documents on religion, philosophy, military strategies and other indigenous knowledge. Having mined away our material wealth, I can't help wondering whether these new colonials are now sifting for our accumulated wealth of knowledge. Perhaps there's a missionary tactic somewhere as well: trying to insert their lame Jesus sob-story or biblical non-events into our works whilst most of us are still ignorant of the language to recognise the original from the altered. Or perhaps it serves an indological reason: steal our works away and present them as 'Aryan inventions' not native to India. I wouldn't put any of it past them when these sites are willing to link to anti-Hindu indology sites.
More knowledge of Samskritam among Indologists and less knowledge of it among Indians would definitely put the Indology department at an advantage in debates. (This would be a situation that never occurred before, as even during British misrule, missionary 'research' and miscontruing of Indian scriptures, there was a significant Hindu population knowledgable in Samskrit to show us their errors and their faulty understanding.)
There is no doubt that Hindus should learn Samskritam again and that this should happen on a large-scale, but why do people in the west become surprised that the language has such little patronage in India today? The fact that the poverty of India became unimaginable during British rule was precisely due to colonialism (in spite of the west today being shocked at signs of great poverty still extant in India today - India's wealth took millennia to amasse and a century or two for Britain to drain away - how quickly does the west expect us to come up again?) Likewise, the reason for the dwindling usage and teaching of Samskritam in its native India is exactly because the missionaries equated the language with their invented and much-reviled 'brahminism'. Thanks to this western hatred of the Hindu use of Samskritam which created an Indian hatred for the same, we today have the communist Keralan government appointing a communist with no knowledge of the language as the head of the prestigious Samskritam teaching institution there (doubtless, he is positioned there only to destroy the college). And no doubt, this continues to fulfill foreign (Indological) and missionary interests in further bringing down remaining native Hindu usage and knowledge of our language.
India never did "research" on Samskrit (that's what people do with a language that is alien and unnatural to them) - it was our ancestral mother tongue. Though historically, when the language was still proudly recognised as our own, Hindu Indians have written and/or refined grammatical rules on Samskritam and patronised the writing of Hindu poetry and prose - besides its ongoing use as the lingua franca of philosophical treatises (including social and military).
Language is a very important part of any culture. Especially ancestral languages, since they often tend to be the one(s) used in the religious scriptures of a nation. Thus, by severing our natural ties to our mother tongue, the missionaries during the colonial era in one stroke achieved a lot of their designs for India. Today, we have Hindus unnable to defend incessantly false accusations of immorality and unethical behaviour or teachings in our religious scriptures merely because they do not have the knowledge of the language involved. They are unable to pick up the works being accused and look in them, read them for themselves and contradict the lies/feel comfortable knowing the truth again.