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Why Learn Sanskrit? There Are Many Good Answers To This Question. Sanskrit Is Studied By Scholars Of Language, Religion And Literature, By Historians, Sociologists And Anthropologists And Anyone Else With An Interest In India's Cultural Heritage. Sanskrit As A Language Is Quite Simply Beautiful, Its Structure Complex Enough To Be Interesting, But Straightforward Enough To Be Manageable. Knowledge Of Sanskrit Grants Access To An Enormous Body Of Literature. Literary Writing Uses The Means Of A Language To Not Just Express A Thought, But To Express It In An Interesting, Appealing, Artful Way. Thus It Always Is More Rewarding To Read A Work Of Literature In Its Original Language. Yet The Fact That Much May Be Lost In Translation Is Especially True In Relation To Sanskrit: The Breadth Of Meaning Of Sanskrit Words, And The Way This Breadth Is Used In Sanskrit Poetry (especially In The Form Of Puns And Word Play) Sometimes Make Expressions Or Even Whole Sentences Or Texts Nearly Impossible To Translate. Only In The Original Can One Truly Enjoy Them. Furthermore, Sanskrit Literature Offers A Wide Window Onto India: Sanskrit Is The Language Not Just Of The Sacred Writings Of Hinduism (and

Author

Antonia Ruppel

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781107459069

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Language Learning, Humanities

Rating

4.7 / 5 (336 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14