Sanskrt संस्कृत | |
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(gore) Ilustrovani sanskritski rukopis iz 19. stoljeća iz Bhagavad Gite,[1] sastavljeno c. 400 – 200 BCE.[2][3] (bottom) Poštanska marka povodom 175. godišnjice trećeg najstarijeg sanskrtskog koledža, osnovanog 1824. | |
Regije govorenja | Južna Azija, Tibet, Mongolija, Srednja Azija |
Jezička porodica | |
Etnički govornici | Nema poznatih govornika sanskrta[4][5][6][7][8][9] |
Sistem pisanja | Devanagari |
Službeni status | |
Služben u | |
Jezički kod | |
ISO 639-1 | sa |
ISO 639-2 / 5 | san |
ISO 639-3 | san |
Također pogledajte: Jezik | Jezičke porodice | Spisak jezika |
Sanskrt (संस्कृत, n., od sam "zajedno" i krta "napravljen", doslovno: "sastavljen", "sastavljeni jezik") je klasični jezik koji pripada indoarijskoj grani indoevropskih jezika.[10][11][12] Nastao je u Južnoj Aziji nakon što su se njeni prethodni jezici proširili sa sjeverozapada u kasnom bronzanom dobu.[13][14] Sanskrt je sveti jezik hinduizma, jezik klasične hinduističke filozofije i historijskih tekstova budizma i džainizma. Bio je to jezik veze u drevnoj i srednjovjekovnoj Južnoj Aziji, a nakon prenošenja hinduističke i budističke kulture u Jugoistočnu Aziju, Istočnu Aziju i Srednju Aziju u ranom srednjem vijeku, postao je jezik religije i visoke kulture i političkih elita. u nekim od ovih regiona.[15][16] Kao rezultat toga, Sanskrt je imao trajan uticaj na jezike Južne Azije, Jugoistočne Azije i Istočne Azije, posebno u njihovim formalnim i naučenim rječnicima.[17]
Sanskrt općenito konotira nekoliko staroindoarijskih jezičnih varijanti.[18][19] Najarhaičniji od njih je Vedski Sanskrt koji se nalazi u Rgvedi, zbirci od 1.028 himni koju su između 1500. godine p. n. e. i 1200. godine p. n. e. sastavila indoarijska plemena koja su migrirala na istok s planina današnjeg sjevernog Afganistana preko sjevernog Pakistana i sjeverozapadne Indije.[20][21] Vedski Sanskrt je stupio u interakciju sa već postojećim drevnim jezicima potkontinenta, upijajući imena novonastalih biljaka i životinja; pored toga, drevni dravidski jezici su uticali na fonologiju i sintaksu Sanskrta.[22] Sanskrt se također uže može odnositi na klasični Sanskrt, rafinirani i standardizirani gramatički oblik koji se pojavio sredinom 1. milenijuma p. n. e. i kodificiran u najsveobuhvatnijoj drevnoj gramatici,[a] Aṣṭādhyāyī ('Osam poglavlja') Pāṇini.[23] Najveći dramaturg na sanskrtu, Kalidāsa, pisao je na klasičnom Sanskrtu, a osnove moderne aritmetike prvi put su opisane na klasičnom sanskrtu.[23]}}[24] Međutim, dva glavna Sanskrtska epa, Mahābhārata i Rāmāyaṇa, sastavljena su u jednoj knjizi. niz registara usmenog pripovijedanja pod nazivom epski Sanskrt koji se koristio u sjevernoj Indiji između 400. godine p. n. e. i 300. godine n. e, i otprilike suvremen sa klasičnim Sanskrtom.[25] U narednim vijekovima, Sanskrt je postao vezan za tradiciju, prestao je da se uči kao prvi jezik i na kraju je prestao da se razvija kao živi jezik.[7]
Himne Rgvede su značajno slične najarhaičnijim pjesmama iranskih i grčkih jezičkih porodica, Gâthâmi starog Avestanskog jezika i Homerove Ilijade.[26] Kako je Rgveda usmeno prenošena metodama pamćenja izuzetne složenosti, strogosti i vjernosti,[27][28] kao jedan tekst bez varijantnog čitanja,[29] njena očuvana arhaična sintaksa i morfologija od vitalnog su značaja u rekonstrukciji jezika zajedničkog pretka Praindoevropskog jezika.[26] Sanskrt nema potvrđeno izvorno pismo: otprilike od početka 1. milenijuma, pisano je raznim bramičkim pismima, a u modernoj eri najčešće na devanagari.[b][30][31]
Status, funkcija i mjesto Sanskrta u indijskom kulturnom naslijeđu prepoznati su njegovim uključivanjem u Ustav indijskih jezika.[32][33] Međutim, uprkos pokušajima oživljavanja,[6][34] u Indiji nema govornika sanskrta.[6][8][35] U svakom od nedavnih desetogodišnjih popisa stanovništva Indije, nekoliko hiljada građana je izjavilo da im je Sanskrt maternji jezik,[c] ali se smatra da brojevi označavaju želju da se uskladi sa prestižem jezika.[4][5][6][36] Sanskrt se učio u tradicionalnim gurukulama od davnina; danas se široko uči na nivou srednjih škola. Najstariji Sanskrtski koledž je Benares Sanskrt College osnovan 1791. a vrijeme vladavine Istočnoindijske kompanije.[37] Sanskrt se i dalje široko koristi kao ceremonijalni i ritualni jezik u hinduističkim i budističkim himnama i pjesmama.
Nekoliko riječi iz Sanskrta (nekad i posredstvom drugih jezika) je našlo svoj put i u bosanski jezik: arijski, avatar, džungla, guru, joga, mandala, mantra, mošus, nirvana, svastika (kukasti krst), tantra.
Bhagavad Gita, intenzivno duhovno djelo, koje čini jedan od kamena temeljaca hinduističke vjere, a također je jedno od remek-djela sanskrtske poezije. (sa zadnje korice)
प्रवृत्ते शस्त्रसम्पाते धनुरुद्यम्य पाण्डवः ॥ २० ॥
Then, beholding the sons of Dhritarâshtra standing arrayed, and flight of missiles about to begin, ... the son of Pându, took up his bow,(20)
हृषीकेशं तदा वाक्यमिदमाह महीपते । अर्जुन उवाच । ...॥ २१ ॥
And spake this word to Hrishîkesha, O Lord of Earth: Arjuna said: ...
... pravyite Sastrasampate
dhanur udyamya pandavah (20)
Then Arjuna, ... looked at the sons of Dhrtarastra drawn up in battle order; and as the flight of missiles (almost) started, he took up his bow.
hystkesam tada vakyam
idam aha mahipate ... (21)
And, O Lord of earth, he spoke this word to Hrsikesha (Krsna): ...
Sanskrit is also the only scheduled language that shows wide fluctuations — rising from 6,106 speakers in 1981 to 49,736 in 1991 and then falling dramatically to 14,135 speakers in 2001. "This fluctuation is not necessarily an error of the Census method. People often switch language loyalties depending on the immediate political climate," says Prof. Ganesh Devy of the People's Linguistic Survey of India. ... Because some people "fictitiously" indicate Sanskrit as their mother tongue owing to its high prestige and Constitutional mandate, the Census captures the persisting memory of an ancient language that is no longer anyone's real mother tongue, says B. Mallikarjun of the Center for Classical Language. Hence, the numbers fluctuate in each Census. ... "Sanskrit has influence without presence," says Devy. "We all feel in some corner of the country, Sanskrit is spoken." But even in Karnataka's Mattur, which is often referred to as India's Sanskrit village, hardly a handful indicated Sanskrit as their mother tongue.
The desire to preserve understanding and knowledge of Sanskrit in the face of ongoing linguistic change drove the development of an indigenous grammatical tradition, which culminated in the composition of the Aṣṭādhyāyī, attributed to the grammarian Pāṇini, no later than the early fourth century BCE. In subsequent centuries, Sanskrit ceased to be learnt as a native language, and eventually ceased to develop as living languages do, becoming increasingly fixed according to the prescriptions of the grammatical tradition.
The study of any ancient (or dead) language is faced with one main challenge: ancient languages have no native speakers who could provide us with examples of simple everyday speech
Some of the migrated languages ... such as Sanskrit and English, remained primarily as a second language, even though their native speakers were lost. Some native languages like the language of the Indus valley were lost with their speakers, while some linguistic communities shifted their language to one or other of the migrants' languages.
The earliest form of this 'oldest' language, Sanskrit, is the one found in the ancient Brahmanic text called the Rigveda, composed c. 1500 BCE. The date makes Sanskrit one of the three earliest of the well-documented languages of the Indo-European family – the other two being Old Hittite and Myceanaean Greek – and, in keeping with its early appearance, Sanskrit has been a cornerstone in the reconstruction of the parent language of the Indo-European family – Proto-Indo-European.
Although the collapse of the Indus valley civilization is no longer believed to have been due to an 'Aryan invasion' it is widely thought that, at roughly the same time, or perhaps a few centuries later, new Indo-Aryan-speaking people and influences began to enter the subcontinent from the north-west. Detailed evidence is lacking. Nevertheless, a predecessor of the language that would eventually be called Sanskrit was probably introduced into the north-west sometime between 3,900 and 3,000 years ago. This language was related to one then spoken in eastern Iran; and both of these languages belonged to the Indo-European language family.
According to Asko Parpola, the Proto-Indo-Aryan civilization was influenced by two external waves of migrations. The first group originated from the southern Urals (c. 2100 BCE) and mixed with the peoples of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC); this group then proceeded to South Asia, arriving around 1900 BCE. The second wave arrived in northern South Asia around 1750 BCE and mixed with the formerly arrived group, producing the Mitanni Aryans (c. 1500 BCE), a precursor to the peoples of the Ṛgveda. Michael Witzel has assigned an approximate chronology to the strata of Vedic languages, arguing that the language of the Ṛgveda changed through the beginning of the Iron Age in South Asia, which started in the Northwest (Punjab) around 1000 BCE. On the basis of comparative philological evidence, Witzel has suggested a five-stage periodization of Vedic civilization, beginning with the Ṛgveda. On the basis of internal evidence, the Ṛgveda is dated as a late Bronze Age text composed by pastoral migrants with limited settlements, probably between 1350 and 1150 BCE in the Punjab region.
Once Sanskrit emerged from the sacerdotal environment ... it became the sole medium by which ruling elites expressed their power ... Sanskrit probably never functioned as an everyday medium of communication anywhere in the cosmopolis—not in South Asia itself, let alone Southeast Asia ... The work Sanskrit did do ... was directed above all toward articulating a form of ... politics ... as celebration of aesthetic power.
Sanskrit (samskrita- 'adorned, purified') refers to several varieties of Old Indo-Aryan whose most archaic forms are found in Vedic texts: the Rigveda (Ṛgveda), Yajurveda, Sāmveda, Atharvaveda, with various branches.
If in 'Sanskrit' we include the Vedic language and all dialects of the Old Indian period, then it is true to say that all the Prakrits are derived from Sanskrit. If on the other hand 'Sanskrit' is used more strictly of the Panini-Patanjali language or 'Classical Sanskrit,' then it is untrue to say that any Prakrit is derived from Sanskrit, except that Sauraseni, the Midland Prakrit, is derived from the Old Indian dialect of the Madhyadesa on which Classical Sanskrit was mainly based.
It consists of 1,028 hymns (suktas), highly crafted poetic compositions originally intended for recital during rituals and for the invocation of and communication with the Indo-Aryan gods. Modern scholarly opinion largely agrees that these hymns were composed between around 1500 BCE and 1200 BCE, during the eastward migration of the Indo-Aryan tribes from the mountains of what is today northern Afghanistan across the Punjab into north India.
The Vedas were composed (roughly between 1500-1200 and 500 BCE) in parts of present-day Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, and northern India. The oldest text at our disposal is the Rgveda (RV); it is composed in archaic Indo-Aryan (Vedic Sanskrit).
(p. 17) Similarly, we find a large number of other items relating to flora and fauna, grains, pulses, and spices—that is, words that we might expect to have made their way into Sanskrit from the linguistic environment of prehistoric or early-historic India. ... (p. 18) Dravidian certainly influenced Sanskrit phonology and syntax from early on ... (p 19) Vedic Sanskrit was in contact, from very ancient times, with speakers of Dravidian languages, and that the two language families profoundly influenced one another.
The story of the growth of arithmetic from the ancient inheritance to the wealth passed on to the Renaissance is dramatic and passes through several cultures. The most groundbreaking achievement was the evolution of a positional number system, in which the position of a digit within a number determines its value according to powers (usually) of ten (e.g., in 3,285, the "2" refers to hundreds). Its extension to include decimal fractions and the procedures that were made possible by its adoption transformed the abilities of all who calculated, with an effect comparable to the modern invention of the electronic computer. Roughly speaking, this began in India, was transmitted to Islam, and then to the Latin West.
The term 'Epic Sanskrit' refers to the language of the two great Sanskrit epics, the Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyaṇa. ... It is likely, therefore, that the epic-like elements found in Vedic sources and the two epics that we have are not directly related, but that both drew on the same source, an oral tradition of storytelling that existed before, throughout, and after the Vedic period.
The importance of the Rigveda for the study of early Indo-Aryan historical linguistics cannot be underestimated. ... its language is ... notably similar in many respects to the most archaic poetic texts of related language families, the Old Avestan Gathas and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, respectively the earliest poetic representatives of the Iranian and Greek language families. Moreover, its manner of preservation, by a system of oral transmission which has preserved the hymns almost without change for 3,000 years, makes it a very trustworthy witness to the Indo-Aryan language of North India in the second millennium BC. Its importance for the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European, particularly in respect of the archaic morphology and syntax it preserves, ... is considerable. Any linguistic investigation into Old Indo-Aryan, Indo-Iranian, or Proto-Indo-European cannot avoid treating the evidence of the Rigveda as of vital importance.
In the history of Indo-Aryan, writing was a later development and its adoption has been slow even in modern times. The first written word comes to us through Asokan inscriptions dating back to the third century BC. Originally, Brahmi was used to write Prakrit (MIA); for Sanskrit (OIA) it was used only four centuries later (Masica 1991: 135). The MIA traditions of Buddhist and Jain texts show greater regard for the written word than the OIA Brahminical tradition, though writing was available to Old Indo-Aryans.
Although in modern usage Sanskrit is most commonly written or printed in Nagari, in theory, it can be represented by virtually any of the main Brahmi-based scripts, and in practice it often is. Thus scripts such as Gujarati, Bangla, and Oriya, as well as the major south Indian scripts, traditionally have been and often still are used in their proper territories for writing Sanskrit. Sanskrit, in other words, is not inherently linked to any particular script, although it does have a special historical connection with Nagari.
The Eighth Schedule recognizes India's national languages as including the major regional languages as well as others, such as Sanskrit and Urdu, which contribute to India's cultural heritage. ... The original list of fourteen languages in the Eighth Schedule at the time of the adoption of the Constitution in 1949 has now grown to twenty-two.
As Mahapatra says: "It is generally believed that the significance for the Eighth Schedule lies in providing a list of languages from which Hindi is directed to draw the appropriate forms, style and expressions for its enrichment" ... Being recognized in the Constitution, however, has had significant relevance for a language's status and functions.
Some of the migrated languages ... such as Sanskrit and English, remained primarily as a second language, even though their native speakers were lost. Some native languages like the language of the Indus valley were lost with their speakers, while some linguistic communities shifted their language to one or other of the migrants' languages.
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