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संस्कृतम् - Dead or Alive?
Came across a discussion on BVP that linked to a few leading western Indologists opining on the Sanskrit Revival movement & the spoken Sanskrit movement
https://t.co/KXFQU9exUx
Quite instructive!
The starting point - the famous chai video of Pollock (Padma Shri 2010)
Efforts to revive or ‘speak’ संस्कृतम् as exemplified by unwashed Hindoos trying to order चायपानीयम् in Sanscreet memorably filled Prof. Pollock with ‘nwosayae’ 😀
The evocatively titled Death of Sanskrit by Sheldon Pollock had crystallized the Indological view that Sanskrit is dead & its best left dead!
He also shared a horror of Hindoos, ‘Inheritors of a past that they did not create themselves’ actually daring to bring it back to life
Now most संस्कृतम् learners will find it most perplexing !
Why should an Indologist, a lifelong Sanskritist have such a horror of संस्कृतम् springing back to life?
किमर्थं भोः?
To help संस्कृतानुरागिनः understand their PoV, an instructive thread is attached
Prof. Stella Sandahl, an Emeritus Professor at Dept. of East Asian Studies has this opening remark
‘How can we rescue Sanskrit from these vandals’?
She claims that speaking Sanskrit is correlated with demolishing temples & violating nuns!
This is a Professor & a Sanskritist!
Came across a discussion on BVP that linked to a few leading western Indologists opining on the Sanskrit Revival movement & the spoken Sanskrit movement
https://t.co/KXFQU9exUx
Quite instructive!
The starting point - the famous chai video of Pollock (Padma Shri 2010)
Efforts to revive or ‘speak’ संस्कृतम् as exemplified by unwashed Hindoos trying to order चायपानीयम् in Sanscreet memorably filled Prof. Pollock with ‘nwosayae’ 😀
As a background, worthwhile to hear what Prof. Pollock wants to see happen for \u0938\u0902\u0938\u094d\u0915\u0943\u0924\u092e\u094d\u0964
— \u092a\u094d\u0935\u093e\u0932\u0903 \u0964 pvaal (@pvaal2) September 4, 2020
Don\u2019t you dare order Chai in \u0938\u0902\u0938\u094d\u0915\u0943\u0924\u092e\u094d\u0964 \U0001f602
And while you are at it, check out the \u0909\u091a\u094d\u091a\u093e\u0930\u0923\u092e\u094d\u0964\U0001f60e pic.twitter.com/S1nlE1DQdh
The evocatively titled Death of Sanskrit by Sheldon Pollock had crystallized the Indological view that Sanskrit is dead & its best left dead!
He also shared a horror of Hindoos, ‘Inheritors of a past that they did not create themselves’ actually daring to bring it back to life
For a second snort of this exquisite high colonial discourse!
— \u092a\u094d\u0935\u093e\u0932\u0903 \u0964 pvaal (@pvaal2) September 4, 2020
Brilliant exemplar of the \u2018white man\u2019s burden\u2019 and cultural appropriation
How dare some desert dweller deny me photographing his rare Sanscrit manuscripts? I offered him a FREE digital CD ROM in return \U0001f602\U0001f601\U0001f923 pic.twitter.com/oEA5odNzCb
Now most संस्कृतम् learners will find it most perplexing !
Why should an Indologist, a lifelong Sanskritist have such a horror of संस्कृतम् springing back to life?
किमर्थं भोः?
To help संस्कृतानुरागिनः understand their PoV, an instructive thread is attached
Prof. Stella Sandahl, an Emeritus Professor at Dept. of East Asian Studies has this opening remark
‘How can we rescue Sanskrit from these vandals’?
She claims that speaking Sanskrit is correlated with demolishing temples & violating nuns!
This is a Professor & a Sanskritist!