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Actually not true - after Panini came into the picture, the preservation of the "purity" continued for centuries, the decline of Sanskrit came due to successive
by rep_movsd 4y ago
Actually not true - after Panini came into the picture, the preservation of the "purity" continued for centuries, the decline of Sanskrit came due to successive invasions from the Middle East, and the stigma associated with casteism and other undesirable traditions associated with Sanskrit culture and history.
Even now you will find the nationalists and the leftists in India exagerrate the negatives and positives in popular media (of Sanskrit and ancient Indian culture)
- fooker 4y agoThe decline of Sanskrit started significantly before the invasions. Think of the Sanskrit bodies of literature. How many important ones were written after 500BC, vs before? Most of Indian literature after that period was in various forms of Prakrit, Magadhi, Pali, proto-Tamil. Creation of new literature strongly corresponds with how much a language is being used.