Sanskrit is a language reveled for its complexity in many regards. It is grammatically very complex, has a rich phonemic library, and is considered to be one of the oldest documented languages in the ...

An online petition to reintroduce Sanskrit into the University curriculum has 240 student signatures as of Monday morning. The petition was started byVidushi Sharma ’17 and began circulating on Sept.

The varna system was a peculiar, and despicable, creation of the world view originating in the Vedic ethos. The purohit, quite like the Egyptian pharaoh, came to be considered the necessary ...

‘Pundits’ kept Sanskrit scholarship alive in remote settlements as British control swept across India, a major new research project will show. The largely forgotten literary figures and their works – ...

NEW DELHI -- Hemant Singh Yadav, a lean and sprightly 15-year-old, was sent by his parents to a summer camp to learn to speak Sanskrit, or what he calls the language of the gods. He had studied the ...

Cambridge-led research rewrites our understanding of the British colonial impact on Sanskrit scholarship in India ...