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The Fifth Fundamental: Sanskrit as Link Language and Devanagiri as Common Script continues...
But Panini has made Sanskrit precise, concise and complete. It is like a set of condensed codes for the entire language with some rules attached. It is a terse, very condensed form of Sanskrit, which paradoxically at times becomes so abstruse that a commentary is necessary to clarify it. But the beauty of it is that it can formulate logical relations in the language with scientific precision. Panini, scientists point out, can be conceived like a computer that generates correct words sentences with the basic inputs. The computer taking the inputs uses the Panini rules and flashes the correct words or sentences in a logical order.
Scientists have gone a step forward. They are trying to develop computer-friendly grammar, like Panini, for other languages. All languages have universal rules like all of them have nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives etc. Effort is on to work out a Panini model for many languages. Since Sanskrit is said to be the mother of many modern Indian languages, scientists are trying to develop a mathematical and computational grammar for them. These are “catchy ideas” in artificial intelligence today, with pioneering work now being done in India, US and Germany.
Interestingly, many scientists are tempted to speculate how Panini developed his rules in so concise and precise a manner without a computer in 3995 aphorisms in his Ashtidhyayi.
Thus, as we look back, it seems that the founding fathers committed a blunder in not according Sanskrit its rightful place.
In India’s long history Sanskrit has been the greatest integrating force, the source of cultural continuum, the medium of literary creativity, the voice of the sages and the languages of the most sublime thoughts and the profoundest of the philosophies of life. It was the medium of intellectual and spiritual discourse and made its impact on scholars throughout the length and breadth of the country.
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