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>According to Tripathi, the problem of Sanskrit being narrowed to religion is a colonial inheritance. British Orientalists, he argues, created an image of Sans
by selimthegrim 3mo ago
>According to Tripathi, the problem of Sanskrit being narrowed to religion is a colonial inheritance. British Orientalists, he argues, created an image of Sanskrit as the language of ritual and one religious community, ignoring its vast Buddhist, Jain, Carvaka, scientific, theatrical, poetic and philosophical corpus.
I don't understand how you can take what happened to AH Dani at BHU and say this with a straight face.
- tecoholic 3mo agoFrom down south of India - the Proto Tamil language is the basis for modern Tamil, Malayalam and others. We still have Sanskrit being used by Temple priests. One of changes in the last decade is - Tamilnadu finally has temples with priests using Tamil for religious rituals. Sanskrit was gate kept by the priestly class. It’s not a colonial reframing.
- thesmtsolver2 3mo agoLook forward to Tamil being used in mosques and the Adan being in Tamil instead of Arabic.
- tecoholic 3mo agoThat’s in utterly bad taste. Not sure what offended you. But there is no need to call in Muslims and mosques in this conversation.
- HexDecOctBin 3mo agoWas your argument not about replacing non-local languages like Sanskrit and Arabic (used exclusively for liturgical purposes in Tamil Nadu) with local languages like Tamil? If not, it might be useful if you spelled your argument out.
- anukin 3mo agoIn Kerala most of mosque prayers are in Malayalam. I don’t know whether they do same in tamilnadu
- iamshs 3mo agoLet's go a bit back and try to understand what happened with Buddhists of India. A whole religion exterminated from such a vast land.
- thesmtsolver2 3mo agoBuddhism wasn’t exterminated due to violence like Zoroastrianism from Iran. https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianHistory/comments/18rdfjx/historical_decline_of_buddhism_in_indian/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianHistory/comments/18rdfjx/hist...
- senderista 3mo agoReally just a tribute to the syncretic capacity of Hinduism.
- thesmtsolver2 3mo agoNot a lot got absorbed into Hinduism though. Look at the link for factors that contributed. Jainism and Sikhism have survived and didn’t get absorbed into Hinduism.
- selimthegrim 3mo agoYou do know iamshs is Sikh, correct?
- rramadass 3mo agoYou might find my following earlier interaction with "selimthegrim" on this topic interesting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41526431 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41526431
- selimthegrim 3mo agoYou brought citations and so did I. There is no reason for animus. And I was talking about what happened to Ahmad Hasan Dani this time.
- rramadass 3mo ago[dead]