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Certainly vocabulary has been added to, but the whole point of the work of Pāṇini and others was to prevent the Vedas from drifting over time. That freezing of
by stan_rogers 5y ago
Certainly vocabulary has been added to, but the whole point of the work of Pāṇini and others was to prevent the Vedas from drifting over time. That freezing of the core of the language was deliberate and artificial. (The same thing applies to the Arabic of the 7th century. It exists nearly unchanged at its core for religious reasons, and a version with various additions functions as a lingua franca and language of academic discourse - rather as Latin or Greek did in other cultures - in the Islamic sphere.)
- Ar-Curunir 5y agoAnd Paninian/Classical Sanskrit is not even Vedic Sanskrit!
- prox 5y agoNot only that, but in Vedic ceremonies you have a priest who is just there so no mistakes are made. >The brahman was the reciter of hymns from the atharvaveda who was largely silent and observes the procedures and uses Atharvaveda mantras to 'heal' it when mistakes have been made.
- gpraghu 5y agoIt seems to me that you are proving my point.