Friends,
Good morning. Last week I did attend the XVIII World Sanskrit Conference that was conducted on the internet operated from Canberra, Australia,. The Conference had been postponed from 2021 because of the pandemic. Professor Dipti Tripathi of Delhi University is the new Chair of International Association of Sanskrit Studies, the organization that sponsors the Conference. My session was on Thursday afternoon, US time, under Linguistics. What we have now found and are convinced that the language grammar has its origin in the brain and we gradually discover the nuances. Panini was successful in analyzing the Vedas and discovered a good number of clues. What we do not know is how the acoustic वर्ण forms from the neural processes. I am developing a mathematical model with the assistance of a few friends. I spoke to our BVP scholar Professor Korada on the model the previous week to brief him and receive his blessings. I will post the video of my presentation when it is made public. I am attaching the presentation if anyone is interested. The process is a bit dense. The Conference was populated by a large number of young researchers engaged in Sanskrit studies around the world. I found most of them sincere and committed, but I felt that the depth in the language was thin. Sanskrit is a sound-oriented oral language. Full open throat recitation must be practiced to observe how the sound is produced. Unlike other languages it is not what you hear, but what you create. Prof Ashok Aklujkar did notice it twenty years ago when he created a fund to invite Vedic scholars to Harvard. This did not happen. With the technology, possibly such training can be done through the internet. There were some modern-oriented gender sessions which I could not attend. Mapping Valmiki to the modern society is a frivolous effort, but some can create political undertones. Some in the west or in India,who are not strongly grounded in the language do get involved in the cultural commentary. Others in BVP might comment if they witnessed the sessions. Best regards, Bijoy Misra, US -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CAL5XZor5Skcav7uKbhJrawuLhq0zE1d_yZowNJw%3DA0%2BO466CBw%40mail.gmail.com.
