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It would be nice to have more excavations in areas like Ayodhya, Kashi (Benaras) and Pataliputra (Patna), Hastinapur (Delhi) and Kurukshetra. There are also settlements off the coast of Dwarka and Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu that were apparently submerged after the melt-off at the end of the...

That remark was related to the roots of the vocabulary, the rules of grammar (standardized by Panini) were not in the picture.

Large numbers of very common words in Prakrit languages, and in today's Indic languages (e.g. nouns like eye, fish, sun, moon, field etc; verbs like walk, run, sing etc) are derived from Sanskrit roots. So it would be fair to say that Prakrit is a derivative of Sanskrit. Panini's contribution...

This is so obvious and elementary, one wonders how the eminent Joe can use it to spin a conspiracy theory of his own.

As per Rig Veda itself, there were many Vedic kingdoms and tribes along the banks of the Saraswati, which is referred to as ámbitame nádītame dévitame sárasvati, "best mother, best river, best goddess". But this would mean that the "Harappan" settlements along the Saraswati banks, dating...

interesting concept, but leads to too many unknowns.

tch ... common ancestor language is purely a conjecture. as rgds your 2nd point, panini was not the person who invented sanskrit. distance between avestan & vedic sanskrit was similar to that between braj bhasha and khadi boli say. minor variations...

Summer Camps Revive India's Ancient Sanskrit

good for you, cowboy.

No descendants, nor anything that may remotely be considered to be an ancestor. But lots of languages with Sanskrit loan words. I would not call them loanwords, generally languages tend to retain the terms used for very common objects. But modifications do happen, over time. You can in fact...

You can go from Chandra to Chand, not vice versa. Similiarly, from Aksha to Aankh, not vice versa. Matsya to Machhli, not vice versa, and thousands of other examples.

There is no descendant of Sanskrit anywhere outside South Asia today, not even in the supposed Central Asian homeland of the Aryans. The evidence indicates that the language originated in the Gangetic valley and expanded out from there. A recent post relating to this point -...

Nicely written. The sad thing is that learning Sanskrit in India today immediately earns you the label of an evil communalist. In fact, the first hatchet job that the present regime performed, immediately after coming to power in 2004, was to viciously cut funding for Sanskrit education.

But if Pak Army / ISI / JuD are changing their words at least why should it not be welcome. Obviously without letting the guard down.

Evidence and witnesses are inside Pakistan. It seems Hafeez Saeed is changing his stand - JuD weekly Ghazwa had celebrated the 26/11 attack:

My dear Sir, read the Vedas themselves, and understand which are the places and rivers referred to in there.

The geographical areas mentioned in the Vedic literature -

Several points. All languages across Northern India from Sindhi and Punjabi in the west to Assamese in the East, including Nepali and Marathi, are based on Sanskrit. Southern languages are not based on Sanskrit but have a large number of Sanskrit loan words. But Pashto and Kashmiri are not...

Wrong question to ask. How much Persian Urdu has depends upon the speaker. The Mughal royals spoke Persian, their courtiers spoke heavily Persianized Urdu, and the common Muslim spoke what would today be called Hindi. However, as far as verbs are concerned, 100% of Urdu verbs are Sanskrit...

Here is a thread she had created on this forum - http://www.defence.pk/forums/members-introduction/175684-im-marvi-sirmed-im-here.html