Sanskrit Spoken By All in Tiny Karnataka Village

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Sanskrit Spoken By All in Tiny Karnataka Village

 

http://www.hvk.org/articles/0203/35.html

 

KARNATAKA, INDIA, January 30, 2003: Sanskrit, believed

by some to be the mother of all languages, has

overcome a brief lull in its verbal existence and has

again begun to bloom in the tiny Karnataka village of

 

Mattur. The advent of English education early in the

last century did make some dent into the

Sanskrit-speaking habit of the successive generations.

However, this trend was stopped in 1992 by H.H.

Vishveshathirtha, head of Udupi Pejawar Mutt. Swamiji

inspired the village to rekindle the spirit of the

ancient language, which eventually found its way into

the everyday life of its people. Today most children

in the schools take Sanskrit as the optional language

and the village population converse in Sanskrit.

 

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