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Sanskrit
«India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| Keywords:
Arabs, Buddha, communities, embodied, embodies, embodying, Europe, India, languages, Sanskrit, self government, the Buddha, village
«I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
dictionary, ordinary language, Sanskrit
«If a person desires to understand clearly the sacred books and scriptural texts of India, to imbibe their message, he must learn the Sanskrit language; he cannot avoid that responsibility and that duty.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
imbibe, imbibed, imbibes, Sanskrit, scriptural, texts
«In America, Russia and even in Afghanistan, the Universities are not only themselves eager to introduce Sanskrit as a subject of study but they are being pressed by scholars to do so! Foreigners are revering these texts from India as gems of lucky discovery.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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Afghanistan, eager, in Afghanistan, pressed, revering, Russia, Sanskrit, scholars