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1. The challenge of translation across language is a widely debated topic. There are scholars who hold vehemently to the extreme views : 'Translation is murder' to ' Translation is a re-birth of an idea across languages crossing the barriers'. The colonial dictionaries of Sanskrit -english, which have contributed greatly to preserve the vocabulary of Brahmi language families have also cast a dark shadow in understanding the meaning of the terms. The oldest bible translation to Sanskrit has much to be reviewed and corrected.
If one truly follows the Bible Sanskrit translation , it will position Christianity as one of the ' Guru - model streams under Puranas of Hinduism! This would not be acceptable to either Hindus or Christians ! The Samskruth terms used to map Biblical concepts to Vedic model are like a double edged knife for both the religions.
2. As the thread has already brought in the reference to Bible translation, the pointing to the link https://joshuaproject.net/assets/media/handouts/bible-translation-status.pdf, an ongoing global exercise may not be out of context to mention here. When it comes to evangelistic work and translation of ' Gods words' reaching out to society through the 'Tongue of People', Papacy has held extreme positions on what need to be the standards of translation, motive and guidance, the stand on official language of the Church for Religion -ritual needs for mediating between humans and 'Gods (?!). The 'magic of language' that enabled mortals to speak to people on the other side of ' River of death'- as seen in Ulysses at Hades ' (Homers Epic) , Hamlets speaking to ghosts ( Shakespeare) was lost way back and religion teams pushed this as 'witch-language and witch craft'. Even now, Papacy is reluctant to talk about ' language magic- miracles - sorcery' and the like; and keeps the talk on early Greek and (Koine ) Latin translations of Old Testament in a hush-hush wraps!
3. There is a clear difference between ' motives in translation (Bhashaa-antarana, anu-vaada)' and 'building popular re-narrated versions ( punar-niroopana, kathaa, pravachana,) of scripture in peoples tongues for a reach out effort'. The purpose and audience are different. The investors are also different in these projects !
There are plenty of examples for good, bad , worst on both sides. If one is considered as ghastly, then the other side is equally guilty of the same error.
4. For academic debate and scholarly research, the challenge of ' language' and 'translation' is handled in Samskruth tradition in a specific way. This ' indigenous linguistic theory' for ' Indian languages' is a subject theme for research and falls out of formal academic research in colonial and oriental studies.
Indian language families are classifiable in to four large segments as below, for the purpose of translation consideration.
4a) Totally Non-Translatable Indic languages : The examples are 'Darshana' like 'Vedas', which are considered transcendental. The 'language of Vedas ' is technically called 'Chandas' ( Brahmi, Bharati, sarasvati, Vak, Accented Sanskrit ?). This is a-historical, transcendental, mystic, not locked to any human of any period. The deliberation on this needs consciousness layers related discussion. This is not an element or a factor in academic indology and linguistics ! The simple clear term is ' A-Paurusheya', (translated as 'Vedic Language of a migrating tribals, and historical society saved by a God, an academic axiom basic to all IE linguistics) , is a concept that does not exist in Old Testament anchored linguistics and traditions anywhere. The closest concept for this is ' Logos' - In the beginning, there was Word,.... and Word was God ( John), which does not need a ' Jesus of Nazareth' as a savior under religion language model.
4b) Limited Translatable Indic languages: This is 'Deva-Bhashaa' also known now as 'Classical Sanskrit, Paninian language, literary Sanskrit, Hybrid Sanskrit, Buddhist sanskrit' ! This is a language with unknown antiquity, integrally connected with 'Chandas' and a derivative of Chandas. The relation between Chandas- Bhashaa can be compared to the (Para-Brahma- Devataa)- ( Transcendental Divine - Gods(Devas )- Parabrahma of Upanishads - Brahma deva of Trimurthy in puranas.
4c) Fairly translatable and Root connectable to Bhashaa - Indic language: These are called the Prakruts and Apabhramshas. These are Sanskrit Bhashaa- derivatives which becomes prakruths; Prakrtuh derivatives which become apabhramsha; apabhramsha derivatives which become Mlecchita and Desi. i.e. This is the largest chunk of Social Historical languages which are emerging out of a ' Proto- source', the nature of which is partially traceable . But not understood fully.
What is called today's English, is a far removed derivative in this chain in the Greek- Latin - ....stream. The connection of English to Chandas and Bhashaa are very difficult in translation.
4d) Encrypted Indic languages of Brahmi family: These are technically called 'dramidam' ( or more technically the Siddha-Bhashaa, in contrast to 'Yoga-Bhashaa' classification of Brahmi family of languages). These are Chandas and Bhashaa- encryptions which becomes discipline and teaching context specific. Many classical south Indian languages come uder this category. These encrypted languages are also collocated with 'Bhashaa' and carry their own grammars. These are languages of communities which follow Siddha-Yogi's teachings. These are ' Proto- sourced' to Chandas and Bhashaa. The encryption nature of Dramidams to Brahmi are called ' Tatsama-Tadbhava' formations. These are again rule based; different from Bhashaa- Prakrut paradigm of connection. This is native linguistics of Indian languages with in Indian (Bharateeya) landscape. This part of Indian Language - analytics is not welcome in IE linguistics, as it makes the Indo-Aryan language narrative and OT origin for Indian languages to become redundant. See IE language family details at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages .
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On the point < believe that God speaks in Sanskrit, then the Bible must be in Sanskrit - that was the main purpose of the Monier Williams dictionary. > :
If that be so, then the next corollary is : < If Vedas are resoruce material to learn Sanskrit (deva-Bhashaa):Gods language, then Bible can also be used to teach Sanskrit.
Outcome of this is the web page : Note on http://www.sanskritbible.in/index.html (scroll down): Image placed below.
Question: How Would this sanskrit be useful , relevant to understand Vedas ? Valmiki, Vyasa, Vedanta Desika ? Vyasaraja ? Vadi Raja ?
How will grammarians help to justify ' vaada ' to mean 'Word/ Logos' ?

For your contemplation pl.
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Sir
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How will grammarians help to justify ' vaada ' to mean 'Word/ Logos' ?
< believe
that God speaks in Sanskrit, then the Bible must be in Sanskrit - that
was the main purpose of the Monier Williams dictionary. > :
I didn't know this. After the 2001 event in the US, there were efforts in churches to educate people on different faiths
and religions. I was invited to a big Catholic church called Glastonbury Abbey In Hingham, MA, run by Benedictine monks.
I had chosen to speak on "Hindu Prayers". The Church grounds were lovely, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. I loved the
audience and engaged them in various chanting. During the Q&A, a person (linked with our Divinity School) raised hand
and asked the seemingly innocent question "Which language does God speak?"
I replied "God has no language. He knows our heart." There was stunned silence in the room.
I did quip "God is reading our hearts."
This was 2003 Oct. There may be a video in the Catholic archives.
I should also mention that I had the opportunity to listen to Gregorian chant by Father Nicholas in the service
before we went to the lecture. His devotion and care in articulation impressed me to create tutorial on chanting
as I did. https://www.glastonburyabbey.org/ Father Nicholas is the pastor with the stick.
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Dear All,Without going into much details of it's authenticity, the sender "ken p" of this link reminded me someone we are all familiar with in BVP. I'm not providing any link of the replies sent by this person/bot but at certain point of time he/she/it used to send replies to almost every email on the thread. Many members had raised concerned about his/her/it's authenticity but AFAIK there was no reply by him.
Most replies were just out of first few links from relevant google search links.
So without wasting your valuable time in looking or even clicking such links.
My simple suggestion would be to ask the administrator of the group to
remove this member or investigate who/why someone does it (since yours is a group of programmers!)?
Dhanyoshmi,Sunil
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According to White (on page 554):
In the chapter titled RELIGIOUS KILLING (p. 107-112), on page 111, under the heading ‘In God We Trust’, is included:
If we categorise the entries in this list according to which religions came into conflict, we get this simplified breakdown:
Christian vs. Christian: 9
Muslim vs. Christian: 3
Christian vs. Jewish: 3
Eastern vs. Christian: 3
Jewish vs. pagan: 2
Muslim vs. Chinese: 2
Muslim vs. Muslim: 2
Human sacrifice in India: 1
Human sacrifice in Mexico: 1
Ritual killing in Rome: 1
Muslim vs. Hindu: 1
Manichaean vs. Taoist: 1
1. Second world war (1939 – 45): 66,000,000
2. Mao Zedong (1949 – 76): 40,000,000
4. Famines in British India (18th – 20th centuries) – 27,000,000
11. Conquest of the Americas (after 1942) – 15,000,000
23. Aurangzeb (1658 – 1707) – 4,600,000
Best,
Megh
For those interested, I had cited the above data in this response to a statement by Nivedita Menon.
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Namaste
In the context of discussion invoking the name of Monier Williams - < Christianity- Sanskrit- bible > one may prefer to read the following book: Brahminism and Hinduism : Religious thought and life in India (1891 publication)
https://archive.org/details/brahmanismhindui00moni/page/n10 -
This will help in understanding how oriental anchor of bearings of History and how long ' Orientalists have pushed this agenda on Sanskrit studies in India. It is going beyond the 'unabashed declaration', motives and ' lamentation on past'. It is about the strategy, persistent work, and apathy of Home teams in swallowing the sugar coated 'poison pills' ! and passing it on as ' authentic for post independence India'.
Lot more water has passed below the bridge over a century. The scholars of pre-internet era need to answer why they could not educate the generations on these strategies and counter these studies ? There are many more resources like this, which has impacted the 'Core of vedic Tradition and Samskruth studies'. The accident has taken place. the choice is straight forward and clear:
Wake up, stop bashing the old dead horse. Show how the traditions are useful for good living globally in 21st century. Is this not the pooja samkalpa one recites to stand by ?
and the vedic wish -' Bhardam shrunuyama , vyashema devahitam yadaayuh'.
What is the model of Loka-hita from Vedic tradition is what needs to be implemented to answer MW challenge observations .
One needs to answer what Dr. Ambedkar raised the issues, building his thoughts on Monier Williams and team's writings, in Who Were The Shudras - by B. R. Ambedkar (Year-1946 ) Free downloadable book at : https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.282497
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BVK Sastry
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For all his good will, and high education, it is a pity that Prof. Bijoy Misra did not know the unabashed declarations of Monier Williams and Max Muller,even the most famous names to reckon with.
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> then the Bible must be in Sanskrit -
> that was the main purpose of the Monier Williams dictionary.
"It [= Monier-Willams's dictionary] is little more than a translated abridgement of the great dictionary of Böhtlingk and Roth." (Richard Gombrich: On Being Sanskritic. A Plea for Civilized Study and the Study of Civilization. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1978. p. 18)
The whole booklet can be downloaded here:
http://sangharajamcbs.com/sites/archive/richard009.pdf
(I arrive at the same result in an article which will be published this year.)
Best,
RS
Christianity should not be put on the same footing as Islam or Marxism; despite its flaws Christianity has been a net plus for humanity.
Not waging wars - I don't see this as some kind of virtue. Even an intellectual pursuit in my opinion is - has to be - a shadow of a real war. Lack of this attitude is seen in R&D across domains - Defence included - in India. If you can't increase productivity of people then why have the universitites and the R&D centers?
One more personal observation:
With purushartha, a person is able to take one quantum leap in one life-time. I've never seen a good Muslim evolve into a Hindu in a single lifetime; but I've seen a good Christian evolve into a Hindu in one lifetime. For the former it is two leaps and impossible, whereas for the latter it is one leap and possible.
And yes I do believe in all that - sanatana, alternate reality, vishva-guru, etc.
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The makers of this site have this to say (see their FAQ section at the bottom of the page):"The general perception among missionares who were also Sanskrit scholars was so: “Such, indeed, is the exuberance and flexibility of Sanskrit language and its power of compounding words that it will probably be found, next to Hebrew and Greek, the most expressive vehicle of Christian truth.”
In other words, “the translated text in Sanskrit is as if the original Greek and Hebrew texts are looking in a mirror. The meanings are not at all lost, but are enhanced.”
The above reason alone is good enough to substantiate this endeavour of Bible in Sanskrit. What it says is that, out of all the thousands of Bible translations (full Bible in 554 and portions in 2,932 languages), the Sanskrit translation is the only one that has preserved or even enhanced the meaning of the original text. It is as if the Hebrew and Greek texts have found their long lost twin sister in Sanskrit texts. Should we say more!