108 Facts About Sanskrit- You Didn't Know

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Paramu Kurumathur is an alumnus of IIT, Madras P. Tech. (Aero. Engg.) 1978; M. Tech. (Comp. SC) 1980).

He has been working in the international software services industry and global IT management since 1980. He has managed many international programs in his career in the software industry and also in an international NGO. He is currently an Author, Coach and Principal Consultant at a well-known consultancy firm.

He has published three books-Software Project Health: An Epic Retold, The First Aryan: The Legend of Vrsakapi and The Five Tantras of Enterprise Agility. For details, please visit paramukurumathur.com.

He is an ardent student of Sanskrit and has published a series of online tutorials on learning the language in easy steps. These can be accessed on his website oursanskrit.com..

His personal interests include writing novels and technical books, studying and interpreting ancient Indian writings, writing limericks travel (he has travelled to around 40 countries), playing the ukulele and promoting humour as a way of life.

There is a real interest in the revival of the Sanken Language In India, this revival is due to the realisation that our ancient heritage has come down to us through the medium of Sanskrit, that almost all our languages owe their being, either directly or indirectly, to Sanskrit, that there is a tremendous amount of literature available in Sanskrit for us to enjoy, and finally, the realisation that we need a language other than English that we can call our own and take pride in. Outside India,. This revival is due to the realisation that Sanskrit, as the earliest of the Classical languages, has contributed immensely not only to the other Classical languages but also to the current languages; and so, a study of these languages and of the civilisations in the world will not be complete without a good understanding of Sanskrit.

However, there is no handy book that gives readers a simple but broad introduction to the language. Of course, there are many learned books on the grammar, on semantics and on reinterpreting our ancient. Books but nothing simple that covers all these aspects in one book. This book hopefully addresses this concern.

Sanskrit is the Mother Tongue of India. I have tried to establish this through the sections and 'facts' of the book. By its contributions to the other languages of India, by being the bearer of Indian culture and by being the vehicle for carrying the religious liturgy of India, Sanskrit is truly our Mother Tongue.

This book, 108 Facts about Sanskrit You Didn't Know, is an attempt to bring to Indians and others the great treasure that is Sanskrit.

The objective of the book is to give readers an overall idea of what the Sanskrit language is: How ancient the language is, what its contributions to the world are; what the origins of the language are and how it is related to the other languages of the world; how it evolved into the currently spoken Indian languages but still continued to be India's lingua franca; the great amount of literature available in the language.