Make Sanskrit National Language of India

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This petition is to solicit nationwide support to make Sanskrit National Language of India.

WHY?
  1. Sanskrit is the oldest, most highly evolved language in the world.
  2. Till now, unanimous support from all localities has not been achieved for any single language. Sanskrit, no doubt will be acceptable to all.
  3. Sanskrit carries with it our ancient culture and has the capability to assimilate any level of modernization and advancement.
  4. Major Indian languages are derived from Sanskrit. It should already have been accepted as National Language.
  5. Sanskrit is fundamentally strong in phonetic and grammar.
  6. Sanskrit is purely a scientific language. Every word and character has a definite reason and meaning to it for pronunciation, meaning and formation of new words.
  7. It is easy to learn Sanskrit, as most of the Indians already know the alphabets, as they are already being used in major Indian languages.
ACTIONS REQUIRED:
  1. Declare Sanskrit - the National Language of India.
  2. Make a time-bound plan for Sanskrit literacy taking help of NGO's if required.
  3. Make Sanskrit a compulsory subject for study in Middle and High schools.
  4. Promote Sanskrit to be made an elective subject in schools across the world.

It is high time that we demand all school boards and minority schools to offer Sanskrit as a compulsory language in their school curriculum. Sanskrit will help bring our kids and us closer to India.

Internationally also, we have been seeing the trend... people moving towards eastern culture, now moving deeper into the roots - taking initiation, singing Name, chanting, practicing yoga etc. We see growing interest in these traditional sciences and people living with greater understanding. But, something is missing when they are attracted towards eastern culture. Originality is missing. It is true many a time with the eastern born and brought ups also. They also feel not connected to the root. The missing link can only be connected with the classical language - Sanskrit.

On the onset, it might look impractical to propose an ancient language for acceptance as a National or International language 'for all modes of communication'. But, that cannot be accepted as a sufficient reason to stop us promoting Sanskrit, as it will have long lasting benefits for the generations to come. Every alphabet of Sanskrit carries life in it. It is alive. It implements itself. Very sound of the character implements the deep meaning living in it in the words using them. Sanskrit is not limited to just forming a set of characters to provide a piece of information. It is much more than that. Vedic mathematics, Mantra Yoga etc. are some of the easily graspable benefits that have become popular recently.

Sanskrit is the best language in this world that can assimilate and give us the best of both worlds - ancient world and the modern world.

A copy of the above petition is published at my blog:

http://share-and-evolve.blogspot.com/2006/01/make-sanskrit-indias-national-language_21.html

157 Signatures

  • Ashish Sharma
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    • Yes, I am strongly supporter of this language, Because of it's oldest language of the world, and it carries our ancient culture.
  • amit sharma
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    • I agree. However, it would be easy if we can provide a linguistic analysis on how and why Sanskrit scores over other languages. May be some experts on language and historians can help in this regard.
  • Vivek
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    • I support this
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  • Satya
  • Jay
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    • Sanskrit is no doubt is a world Heritate Language,
  • Vivek M Gupta
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    • I support Sanskrit, not only as an Indian (as it is a vital part of our culture), but also because its a mother of most of major Indian Languages as well as many European Languages. Its certainly deserves a place as world Heritage Language, and should be protected by UN as any other world Heritage Monument. But the fact is that to get such status Indian Govt has to full fill some pre-requisite. I may not agree on all the points of the author of this petition but do agree the main feeling that this great language should not be let on its own, coz if it vanishes a great part of History will also go away with it from human civilization I request all the supporters do put some comments also ...
  • arvind
  • Amit sharma
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    • we need our language to be a developed country
  • V.C. GOVINDARAJAN
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    • Yes. It is must, still it is not too late.
  • Prakash
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  • jayasree
  • Ravikanth Bairi
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  • Vijaya
  • Massimiliano Distaso
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    • Sanskrit is the universal language of India and Buddhism
  • Narasimha Patrudu
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  • Srikanth Parthasarathy
  • Balachandran
  • chetan
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  • Harinarayanan S
  • Kiran Chakravarthula
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    • I'd advocate that Sanskrit should be made one of the prominent national languages, and not the default choice. "The" national language should be more widespread than Sanskrit, IMHO.
  • S.R. MURALIDHARAN
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    • Various literatures and how to administer the nation, how people have to be responsible are available in Sanskrit in various smritis etc. By opening this door, the nation's morale will only go up in the comity of nations. It is imperative that Sanskrit is declared national language so that at least future generations of this ancient land will learn how to live and follow the various tenets in life to ensure a peaceful and prosperous life.
  • Sunil G.R.
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    • I like this idea. But i heard that we have 15 national languages. Then is this petition targetting Samskrit to make it 16th national language? or samskrit as the only national language and removing national language status for other languages?
  • Kiran Kumar N
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  • krishna
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    • Sanskrit is the mother of indian languages and many other world languages.
  • SUBRATA MAITI
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    • Sanskrit should be made national language at the earliest.
  • Jayakumar V
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    • Please make Sanskrit our National language
  • Kalyan Mankala
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  • GS Krishnamurthy Rao
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    • Let us give the Divine language its deserved place!
  • Shekhar Sinha
  • vasumathi nagarajan
  • Gopal Pai
  • Rushi
  • Geetha Raghavan
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    • Sanskrit is the mother of all languages and it deserves a place as the national language of India.
  • Guruprasad
  • Prakash
  • Kulodhbhava
  • Phakheer Ahmed
  • Amjed Khan
  • Dhirendra Pal Singh
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  • R. Kannabiran
  • Santosh Kumar
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    • I supprt it. Feeling it is heritage of ours.
  • RAKESH SAI
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    • OM SHREE SAI RAM
  • ramanathan
  • Madhav Mainali
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    • sanskrit language should be main stram of Hindu philoshopy that is needed around the universe
  • Harsh Kundra
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  • Asok Narayan
  • Dilip Subramanian
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    • Sanskrit can be the only national language of India
  • R Balaji