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Sanskrit as Link Language and Devanagiri as Common Script continues...
Swami Dayanand’s ardent disciple, Swami Shardhanand, established a gurukul at Kangri in Haridwar. The teaching in Gurukul Kangri from the primary to the university level was done in Hindi, not Sanskrit. But the Hindi was fully of sanskritized vocabulary.
Bengali is proudly referred to as the “daughter” of Sanskrit, but Tamil which has a proud history of its own, thanks to the long unbroken reign of the Chola Kingdoms, can be easily thought of as the “sister” of Sanskrit. For this reason, Sanskritized Hindi is easier to understand for the Southerners (and more difficult for those Northerners like Nehru steeped in Urdu). The late Annadurai used to say that for Sanskritized Hindi, “na vadiyar” (I am teacher). Incidentally, the Tamil word “vadiyar” comes from the Sanskrit word “vadi” (preacher). For this reason of common vocabulary, Sanskrit is ultimately the best national language for India.
Secondly, international research in today’s most advanced area of computers, namely, Artificial Intelligence, which is to revolutionize the knowledge systems of the 21st Century is now increasingly coming to the conclusion that Sanskrit is the best language to store knowledge in a computer. Writing in the spring 1985 issue of Artificial Intelligence, Dr. Rick Briggs of the US National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA), states in an article titled “Knowledge Representation in Sanskrit and Artificial Intelligence” that:
“In the past twenty years, much time, effort, money has been expended on designing an unambiguous representation of natural languages to make them accessible to computer processing.
Understandably, there is widespread belief that natural languages are unsuitable for the transmission of many ideas that artificial languages can render with great precision and mathematical rigour.
There is at least one language, Sanskrit…. (in which) can be reckoned a method ….. that is identical not only in essence but in form with current work in Artificial Intelligence.
This article demonstrates that a natural language (Sanskrit) can serve as an artificial language also, and that much work in Artificial Intelligence has been reinventing a wheel millennia old”.
to be continued....
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