Chamu Krishna Shastry, one of the founders of Samskrita Bharati – draws a comparison between the revival of Spoken Hebrew as a spoken language by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda in Israel in the 20th century, and the revival of Spoken Sanskrit on a massive scale by the efforts of a small community of commited enthusiasts.
Vyākaraṇa-Darśana & Vākyapadīyam: Contribution to Linguistics and Philosophy – Speech by Prof. Ashok Aklujkar of the University of British Columbia, Canada
Chamu Krishna Shastry, one of the founders of Samskrita Bharati, speaks about the prakṛti-pratyaya-vibhāga (morphological transparency) that makes the Sanskrit language sanskritic, and why it is important to preserve that uniquely analytical feature of Sanskrit by coining neologisms in Sanskrit itself rather than adopt modern words (such as electricity, car, train, computer etc) from other languages into Spoken Saṃskṛtam.
Lecture: Sanskrit: A historical linguistics approach
Prof Madhav Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Chamu Krishna Shastry, one of the founders of Samskrita Bharati, explains why Sarala Saṃskṛta Paddhati is important for the spoken sanskrit movement. This is the method currently used by Samskrita Bharati the world over.
Lecture on: Indian traditions on the Vedas and Sanskrit
Prof Madhav Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Was Sanskrit merely a language of religion and ritual in ancient India? – Prof. Madhav Deshpande from the University of Michigan shares his thoughts.