4 ms·
If you're talking about the shlokas most commonly recited by average people, they may amount to maybe 10-20 lines. Learning their meaning will take at best one
by r0h1n 13y ago
If you're talking about the shlokas most commonly recited by average people, they may amount to maybe 10-20 lines. Learning their meaning will take at best one hour of research/effort.
Learning Sanskrit to understand the meaning of a shloka is like learning Latin because you came across 'Cogito, Ergo Sum' or 'Veni, Vidi, Vici' on some blog. Both are pointless overkill.
- 1457389 13y agoThis average people comment isn't consistent with what I am familiar with. I regularly come across people, especially in the older generations, who have memorized literally pages of verse that they may not necessarily understand fully. The older generations in general in India seem to be multilingual as a rule and deeply interested in Vedic philosophy and ancient Indian history. Case in point the recent success of those Shivva books.