The Untold Story of Sanskrit || A film on research about Sanskrit & Computing || Project SHIVOHAM

Sanskrit, one of the oldest languages in the world, native to India, used in divine worship or in Vedic rituals or language that has been used for writing ancient Indian manuscripts. This is the general perception, right? But very few people are aware of the fact that binary number system, which is the basis for modern day computing, originated from Sanskrit. How Sanskrit gave birth to 1700 plus Indian languages and how Sanskrit gave birth to a number of applications in modern day science and technology like machine learning. We made this documentary very responsibly and each and every speck of the detail that you're going to see here is fully backed with research. To keep it crisp and clear, this documentary is of three chapters. In the first chapter is about how Sanskrit originated and how is it related to the languages in India as well as outside India. And in the second chapter, we're going to see what is the link between Sanskrit and computing. We'll walk you through in detail about what is fact and what is fiction in this space. It's going to be very interesting and do not skip it at all. And the third chapter is why should we learn Sanskrit and how is it relevant for us today? Let us dig deep into these interesting stories. Let's get the first chapter on how it all started. According to the continental drift theory, this is how our earth looked like around 250 million years ago. And today, we have something like this with all the continents separated from each other. As the land masses get separated from each other, the life forms also follow the same pattern. They get distributed across the continents. They split and they evolve, diverge and evolve. This has been the pattern for everything in this world and language is no exception. According to the modern history, Proto-Indo-European language, something that existed between 4500 and 2000 BC, is the mother of all the Indo-European language families, as we know today. Around 50% of the world's spoken languages today have originated from Proto-Indo-European. Here is an example of how the word mahatar from Proto-Indo-European evolved into mother in different Indo-European languages that are spoken today. English, Scottish, Irish, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, everything originated from Latin, while Greek has its own way right from the olden times, and German from the Proto-Germanic, Norse, Proto-Slavic, Proto-Indo-Iranian. So a lot of language families that you can see here and how they originated from the Proto-Indo-European language. If we zoom into India, Sanskrit is the root language for a vast majority of the languages spoken in India today. Well, not just in India, but Sanskrit also shares similar roots as in certain European languages like Lithuania. Let's take a quick look on which all languages are very closely related to Sanskrit. A western of ancient Persia, ancient Greek of Greece, old Latin of Italy, Lithuanian and the languages of the Baltic nations, all these have a very close connect with Sanskrit. Of all these, particularly the Baltic nations and especially Lithuania shares very close roots with Sanskrit. And that's what the department of the Lithuanian studies of the University of Lithuania says, as you can read. In 2019, the government of Lithuania published a book of 10,000 common words between Sanskrit and Lithuania and presented to the vice president of India, Sri Venkaiah Naiduga. As you can see, the words how similar they are. Fire in English is Agni in Sanskrit and Ugnus in Lithuania. God in English is Deva in Sanskrit and Devas in Lithuania. Death, English. Sanskrit Mrityu or in Lithuania it is Mrtys. A day in English is Dina in Sanskrit and Diena in Lithuania. Tooth is Danta in Sanskrit and Dantys in Lithuania. In addition to the linguistic aspects, on the cultural front as well, Lithuania shares certain common roots with the ancient Vedic culture. The pagan traditions of Lithuania called as Ramuva or it derives from its root word Rom which means peace and calmness. It has interesting similarities with the Vedic culture on fire worship, worship of the elements of the nature etc. Well, that's a topic for another day. Let's get back to Sanskrit. Let's take a quick look on how all the Indian languages originated from Sanskrit. That's Proto-Indo-European and let's leave out rest of all European languages and focus only on India. From Proto-Indo-European, Vedic Sanskrit and Tamil were the first to evolve. From Vedic Sanskrit evolved the classical Sanskrit which is more commonly used as a spoken language in ancient India. From both classical Sanskrit and Tamil evolved Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu. And from classical Sanskrit evolved a wide variety of languages called Prakrits which has Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Bihari, Gujarati, Marathi, Rajasthani, Sindhi, Punjabi, Sinhali, Assamese, Konkani and Maithili. And from Sino-Tibetan family, we have Bodu and Methi which are spoken in the northeastern parts of India. And from the Indo-Iranian family, we have Urdu. All this is fine but what is the basis for the Proto-Indo-European language? As per the current history, that is the farthest that we can go back into the past. We don't know the further origins of Proto-Indo-European language. Every question has an answer and the only way to find it is to search for it. And from this point onwards, this documentary is going to take a totally different direction. And before that, I'd like to say one thing. Truth is something that always exists. It's about how we seek it. And you'll get to know why I said that. First, let's get the basics right. It is not Sanskrit. It is not Sanskrit. It is Sanskritam which means a well-perfected language. So, let's address it as Sanskritam from here on. According to the recorded history, 2600 years ago that's in 600 BC, Panini Maharshi wrote a treatise on Sanskritam grammar which is called as Ashtadhyayi. It's of eight chapters. Not just in India but across the world today, Ashtadhyayi is considered as the world's oldest living treatise on grammar and also the most complex and comprehensive one on ever known to mankind. This is the opening slogan for Panini's Ashtadhyayi. It says that Lord Shiva at the end of his cosmic dance made 14 beats out of his damaru and pronounced 14 principles which are called as Shiva Sutras. And the 14 Shiva Sutras are as follows. These 14 principles are the foundations for human speech. These are not alphabets, these are called phonemes or distinct sounds that a human vocal cord can make. Human speech is the result of an orchestrated effort of different body parts like diaphragm, vocal cord, teeth, tongue, lips, the way you breathe and all. The easiest way to understand Shiva Sutras is, these are the exhaustive list of sounds that you can make with your vocal cord. And these sounds mix among themselves to create the alphabets what we use today. Let's try again once more. And here is an undated manuscript of Panini's Ashtadhyayi. Please note that this is not the original version of Panini, but is a copy of Panini's version, but still it's few centuries old. Now let's see how Shiva Sutras gave birth to different Indian languages. As I said, these phonemes mix among themselves to create the alphabets. Let's take the first three for example, A, E, U. A drops as A for all the languages and A mixes up twice to create A and E as in 1 and E and U as in 1 and U plus U is U. So that is A, A, E, E, U, U of all the Indian languages. Like this, rest all alphabets are created as a mixture of Shiva Sutras among themselves. In my opinion, Shiva Sutras is the textbook definition of the very ethos of India which is unity in diversity. There is no other country in this world which is as linguistically diverse as India and it's incredibly surprising to see how everything rolls up to the Shiva Sutras. There you have Shiva Sutras and from Shiva Sutras came Rig Vedam, Yajur Vedam, Sama Vedam and Adharvana Vedam which has Aranyaka, Brahmana, Samhita and Upanishads as part of them. And then we have six Vedangas, Siksha, study of phonetics, Vyakarana, study of grammar, Chandas, study of rhythm and prosody, Nirukta, study of etymology, Jyotishya, study of astronomy, Kalpa, study of rituals and then we have four Upavedas, Ayurveda, study of medicine and life sciences, Gandharva Veda, study of music, art and dance, Dhanurveda, study of archery and warfare and Ardhasastra, study of business administration, commerce and political sciences. This is called as Shruti, the primordial knowledge system and this is how Shiva Sutras gave birth to the entire system and in short and more commonly all these put together are called as the Vedas. And this entire knowledge system is in Samskritam. In the field of linguistics, Samskritam always takes the center stage when it comes to research because of its antiquity as well as its comprehensiveness as a language. This is a research paper from one of the European universities and as you can read it quotes Shiva Sutras as universal admiration and also it quotes Payani's Ashtadhyay as one of the greatest monuments of human intelligence and Ashtadhyay continues to inspire modern-day linguistics as well. Here is another reference from a book that was written almost a hundred years ago by Leonard Bloomfield. He is considered as the father of American linguistics. In his book, he regards Samskritam as one of the finest linguistic achievements known to mankind. Here is another research paper from a European university again on the mathematical analysis on Shiva Sutras and as you see it quotes Payani's Ashtadhyay as one of the oldest recorded grammar in the history and also it says that Payani's Ashtadhyay continues to inspire linguistics even today. To summarize, Samskritam as we know today is a collective effort of four great gurus. As we saw, it's Payani who gave Ashtadhyay and then we have Pingala who gave Chandrashastra, a framework for constructing Sanskrit poems. He is also the We'll see that in a short while. And then we have Katyayana Maharshi who gave Vartikakara which is a further elaboration of Payani's Ashtadhyay. He is also a mathematician who gave the mensuration and geometrical principles in ancient India. And fourth we have Patanjali who gave Mahabhashyam which is an elaborate explanation of Payani's Ashtadhyay. Patanjali is also the inventor of both as we know today. It is a very unfortunate situation that all this great knowledge system which was created in Samskritam is no longer understandable by the Indians today because we lack the competence of Samskritam. Thanks to the Mughal invasions and the imperial colonization. Nonetheless, Samskritam continues to live through the mother tongues of 1.3 billion Indians today. And that's how Samskritam originated and the rest is history. And now let's see how Samskritam and computing are related to each other. Getting straight to the point. Is Samskritam and computing linked? The answer is yes and no. Remember the scene from the Interstellar? Cooper a NASA pilot chasing the Indian Air Force stray drone in the cornfields. And there let's take a pause. And that's the programming console of Cooper. Interesting in Hindi. Let me have a benefit of doubt and take it as Samskritam. That clip shows two big WhatsApp University myths about Samskritam. Number one is that NASA is doing some research about Samskritam. And second thing is you can program using Samskritam. Both are myths and totally baseless. The fact of the matter is Samskritam has already contributed to the technology that we are using today. Just that it's not well known to many of us. And now let's see what they are. Binary number system. The very foundation of this digital world today has originated from Samskritam. Combinatorics, a field of mathematics that deals with counting, has originated from Samskritam. Computational linguistics or in simple terms speech recognition. This is an area where research is going on. Samskritam for its linguistic properties. As I said we made this documentary very responsibly and every speck of detail that you're going to see in these three areas is fully backed with research and I'm going to give you references for you to go and check for yourself and only then take the word. Here is a verse from Bhavani Ashtakam. Hear me out reciting it. If you observe the letters in black take less time to pronounce and the letters in red take more time to pronounce. Let me repeat. You see that there is a wave pattern in the way the syllables are arranged in this verse thus creating a rhythmic or a rhyming effect. The art of creating a poem by arranging the letters in such a rhythmic way is called as Chandas Shastra. Chandas is one of the six Vedangas that we saw some time back. Chandas gives the tone and tenor of the Vedas the way they are recited. In addition to Samskritam, Kannada and Telugu also has this Chandas Shastra blended into the language. As Chandas gives the pleasant rhythm to the Samskritam poems it is metaphorically compared with Chand which is moon and hence the name Chandas Shastra. I will explain why we are talking about Chandas Shastra but before that one very important thing. Just like in music where every song that we listen is an arrangement of seven different notes in different combinations, same way every Samskritam poem is a huge combination of short syllables and long syllables or in other words Laghu and Guru. The rhyming and beauty of the Samskritam poem lies in how beautifully we arrange these short syllables and long syllables. Chandas Shastra written by Pingalacharya historically dated to be around gave certain algorithms to derive the way we can arrange this Guru-Laghu combinations in a Samskritam poem. Here I refer to the book Chandas Shastra by Pingalacharya, a Samskritam to English translation printed in 1874. Pingala gives three-step algorithm as Dvikaglav, Misraucha and Pradaglamishra. Let us see what they mean. Step one says Dvikaglav. It means there are two syllables Guru and Laghu as you see Dvikaglav. Second step of the algorithm says Misraucha which means mix themselves. Take Laghu and Guru and mix once with Laghu and take Laghu and Guru again and mix once with Guru. Then you have Laghu-Laghu, Guru-Laghu, Laghu-Guru and Guru-Guru and in step three it says Pradaglamishra which means mix themselves again. Basically repeat step two. Take step two result, mix once with Laghu and take step two result again and mix once with Guru. So that will give you Laghu-Laghu-Laghu, Guru-Laghu-Laghu, Laghu-Guru-Laghu and so on. All these three combinations. Take this result set and if we take Laghu as one and Guru as zero, this notation, this triplets what we're having here is nothing but the seven six five four three of a binary number system. World's oldest written record of binary numeral system Chandrashastra chapter 8, 20, 21, 22 sutras given by Pingalacharya. Now let me show you how to practically apply these algorithms of Pingala. If you want to construct a three-lettered word as part of a poem. Let's say I want to write a three-lettered word as part of the poem. I can write in a combination of all Laghus. For example Na-Ya-Na-Na-Ya-Na. All three take less time to pronounce as they are Laghus. Another possibility is Laghu-Laghu-Guru as Sa-Ra-La-Sa-Ra-La. Another possibility is Guru-Laghu-Laghu like Bha-Ra-Ta and so on. Further in Chandrashastra, Pingala says that the number of ways in which you can write an n-lettered word is 2 to the power of n. For instance, we can write a three-lettered word in 2 raised to the power of 3 which is in 8 different ways. Same way a four-lettered word can be written in 2 raised to the power of 4 which is 16 different ways and so on. This formula of 2 to the power n is the basis for expressing any kind of data in terms of binary digits of 1 and 0. The binary number system as we use today is credited to Gottfried Leibniz, a German mathematician of 17th century. You can see his paper here where he published the binary number system back in 17th century. However, mainstream academia admits that binary number system was well known to the people across the world centuries before Gottfried himself. While there is no written record about Leibniz getting inspired from Pingala's work, but those were the days when spice trade was at its peak from India to European nations. And not just wealth from India but also the knowledge sources like these from India has also got transferred from India to Europe. And I'm not speculating that he got inspired from Pingala's work, but there is another written evidence about another branch of mathematics where Gottfried Leibniz shares the credit along with an Indian mathematician called Madhava. Check about Gottfried Leibniz and Madhava's infinite series. That is the foundation for calculus and Madhava predates Gottfried Leibniz by hundreds of years. Unfortunately, the credit of calculus is given only to Leibniz and Newton while Madhava predated both these mathematicians hundreds of years before defining and disrupting the field of calculus. If you're more interested, read about the history of how binary number system originated and you will end up with Pingala. This binary number system is the very basis for assembly level programming of your microprocessors which is the very heart and soul of computing in the devices that we are using today and the rest is history. Or in very simple words, the reason why your pen drives are only 32 GB and 64 GB is because of Pingala's 2 to the power of n formula of binary number system. And that is the link between samskritam and computing. That's about the binary number system. Now let's see how samskritam contributed to the combinatorics. This is the most exciting and most interesting part of this entire documentary. Combinatorics is a field of mathematics that deals with counting or decision making or arranging things in a particular way. You probably know this with a different name called as permutations and combinations in your high school which is used in fields like statistical physics to study the atomic behavior, evolutionary biology to study the combination of chromosomes or in machine learning to study the exhaustive number of possibilities of making a decision. It is quite easy to understand combinatorics. Say you have three t-shirts and It's quite easy. It's six. Let's take a more complex problem. Imagine a cricket field where you have 25 common fielding positions and only nine fielders counting out the wicketkeeper and the bowler. So you have nine fielders in 25 positions and then you have right-handed and left-handed batsmen and right-handed and left-handed bowlers and round the wicket. With all these combinations how many exhaustive fielding setups can we have? Don't try to count. It's going to run into lakhs and crores. For these kind of complex problems combinatorics is used. Combinatorics is also used in DNA sequencing while studying human genetic variations. Like this there are many other fields where combinatorics plays a very crucial role. All this is to help you understand how important combinatorics in different fields of science and technology and now let's see how it Let's take Bhavani Ashtakam poem again. Just like how we arrange the fielders on a cricket field to get the best result, same way syllables are to be arranged in such a beautiful way that they sound very pleasant to hear. For this arrangement Pingalacharya gave six algorithms The first one prasthara is what we saw in the binary numeral system and now let us see lagha kriya which defines the combinations. We have to go back to Pingala's Chandrasastra again. This is a lengthy algorithm and I'm going to cover directly in English. If you want you can pause and read the word-to-word translation that is given in Sanskritam. First draw one square and just below that draw two more squares in such a way that half of it overlaps with the above just like it's shown here and then repeat the process at the third row again with and repeat the process again with four squares like it's shown here and continue the process to a certain level say for example four levels here we assume. In the topmost square write one and then in the next level write one and one again and in the third level write one in the extreme boxes and leave the middle one empty and the middle one should be a sum of the above two so here one plus one is two. Same way for the third level write one in the extremes and add the number above into the boxes like one plus two is three two plus one is three. This arrangement of numbers is called as Meru Prasthara. I was speechless when I first read this because this is called as Pascal's triangle in today's world written by Pingala back in 200 BC and reinvented by Pascal in the 17th century. I'll explain how Meru Prasthara became Pascal's triangle but that's not the important point. What's rather important is to understand the mathematical features of this arrangement of numbers. Firstly the name Meru Prasthara metaphorically represents the Maha Meru Yantra of Sri Chakra. Let's not get much into this topic but I'll briefly explain what it is in a little while. Let us understand why Pingala gave this numerical arrangement of numbers. Let's take a simple problem. Say if you have five coins in how many ways we can get only two heads and four tails? In how many different ways can I get this combination? We can just write it down. We can just look up this Meru Prasthara table to solve this problem. We have six coins so we have to go to row number six R6 and then the first box represents zero heads and six tails. That's in one way. You can have zero heads and all tails in just one way. So that's one. The second box says six. So basically the six is one heads and five tails in six different ways and the third one says two heads and four tails in 15 different ways. So the answer to the question is it is in 15 different ways that we can get two heads and four tails. So basically Meru Prasthara is just a lookup Now let's exactly replace the six coin problem with a six letter word. Imagine that you would like to compose a six letter word as part of a poem where you want only two gurus and four lagus. So you want a six letter word just like the coin problem. Go to the sixth row and then the third box is going to give you two gurus and four lagu combination or vice versa. So that is in 15 different ways that you can write such kind of a word which has two gurus and four lagus. In the previous algorithm 2 to the power of n gives you all the possibilities of writing a word. Here in a six letter word 2 power 6 is 64. That means you can write in 64 different ways irrespective of how many lagus or how many gurus are there. A six letter word can be written in 64 different ways. But if you specifically want two lagus and four gurus or vice versa then this table is to look up and understand how many ways you can write that expected combination of lagus and gurus and that is the purpose of Meru Prasthara. This is the worksheet of an unknown Sanskritam poet writing down the Meru Prasthara almost in the year 755. You see the combinations of guru lagu how they wrote to identify different words and their combinations. It was incredibly surprising for me to see this manuscript which is 1300 years old and this was way back in the year approximately 755 AD. This is 1000 years before Pascal quote unquote invented Pascal's triangle. Meru Prasthara has a lot of applications in different areas of mathematics. Here is one example the binomial theorem. Meru Prasthara is nothing but the arrangement of the binomial coefficients. a plus b whole square is equal to a square plus 2ab plus b square. You see the coefficients can be directly read from the table. Same way for a plus b whole cube and again a plus b to the power of four you can directly read the binomial coefficients from the Meru Prasthara. Another very important mathematical feature of Meru Prasthara is if you add up the diagonals it gives out the Fibonacci series which are in golden ratio. These series are called as Fibonacci series because an Italian mathematician Fibonacci in the 13th century wrote a book called Liber Ibbachi. This book is all about introducing Indian way of arithmetic operations to Europe. Thanks to Fibonacci he really gave credit to Indians and he did not claim any of the work as his own. Fibonacci is the first one to introduce the Indian way of mathematics or the Hindu numeral system what the whole world is using today. He is the first one to introduce that to Europe. I will do a separate documentary only focusing on Liber Ibbachi but for now let's move on. Fibonacci series is very special because we see it directly visible in the nature. For example a sunflower arranges all its seeds in a Fibonacci sequence so that it can accommodate maximum number of seeds in its womb. Same way a cauliflower also follows a Fibonacci sequence. It's a huge topic. If you are interested read about Fibonacci series. And now you know that Fibonacci series came from Meru Prasthara. Like this there are many many mathematical patterns coming out of Meru Prasthara. Even till today mathematicians are discovering new patterns with respect to Meru Prasthara or Pascal's triangle which is more commonly called today. In Hinduism the Sri Chakra Mahameru Yantra is revered as a symbol of universal motherhood and a source of energy. Sri Chakram is considered as the single source that disseminates different levels of energy. Metaphorically Meru Prasthara also disseminates different kinds of mathematical patterns. Maybe that's the reason the names are alike. Anyways let's move on. Now let's see how Pingala's Meru Prasthara became Pascal's triangle. He wrote it in 200 BCE. It was eventually translated by Omar Khayyam a Persian mathematician in 11th century, a Chinese mathematician Yanghui in 13th century and Niccolo Tartaglia an Italian mathematician in 16th century and finally by Blaise Pascal from France in 16th century. This is a classic example of how the knowledge originated in India traveled across the world contributing to the betterment of humanity. Let me be very clear on one aspect here. I'm not saying that the human intellect is a property of Indians. No that's absolutely nonsense. My only point is the credit should be given to where it rightfully belongs to period. If we roll all the way back to Shiva Sutras that's where we started. So Shiva Sutras gave birth to the four Vedas Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Adarbana Veda and Yajur Veda and these four Vedas are accompanied by six Vedangas Siksha, Nirukta, Vyakarana, Kalpa, Jyotisha and Chamdas written by Pingalacharya in which he gave six combinatorial algorithms of which we could cover only two and couple of these were translated by different mathematicians across the globe which gave rise to binary number system, algebra, combinatorics, infinite series and so on and has applications in the fields of electronic computing, statistical physics, genetical analysis, machine learning and so on. So this is the end-to-end picture of how Shiva Sutras which is the very basis of human speech and art form Samskritam which has given rise to all these mathematical and technological advancements that we are having today. This is no exaggeration, you can check each and every aspect of it for yourself. And there comes the third and the last contribution of Samskritam to technology which is in computational linguistics or speech recognition. Computational linguistics is a technology which deals with human speech recognition. Your Siri, Google home, Alexa all these are the wise assistants that run on computational linguistics. The very fundamental of computational linguistics is natural language processing that means to understand what we are speaking the machine should be able to understand what we are speaking and respond accordingly. This is an area where there has been some research on Samskritam for its linguistic properties. There are certain linguistic properties of Samskritam that sets it apart from any other language in the world. For instance, you can write Samskritam in the shortest of the form called as Sutra format. So it is a ciphered format that you can write a huge message condensed into a very small format. Here is an example that we are seeing in Panini's Ashtavadhyay. The entire Panini's Ashtavadhyay is written in a Sutra format. The rules are very condensed at the same time very deep in its meaning. Also, Samskritam has certain special properties like it can create new words by fusing existing words which is called as Samdhi. Like this there are many properties of Samskritam which are making it a special language to see how can we derive cues from its traits and make the natural language processing more effective. In the year 1985, a NASA engineer published a white paper on Samskritam and its role in artificial intelligence which is natural language processing. This is just an individual research but has no role of NASA directly involved as such and probably this white paper is the root cause for all those baseless myths about NASA and Samskritam. This white paper doesn't really hold any weight at this point in time. A more reliable source is in JNU, India. There is a department which is dedicated for computational linguistics of Samskritam and they have been doing quite some work. If you are interested, you can check the portal. So that is the link between Samskritam and computing. We tried our best to bring the factual information about Samskritam and computing to you and please help us spread this word. And last but most important of all, why do we need to learn Samskritam? Let us understand how human intelligence works. Your memories of the past plus your imagination about the future. These two will affect your decision in the present. This is a simple equation of how human intelligence works. Take a pause and think about yourself. Let me explain with a simple example. You want to decide whether you want to Your memory of the past tells you how a chocolate tastes like. It triggers a desire in you. Eventually, you will also imagine if you eat the chocolate, is that good for your diet or not? That's an imagination about the future. These two put together will finally help you take a decision whether you want to eat the chocolate at that point in time or not. And that decision of the present, good or bad, will become your memory and the loop continues. And this is what we call as So memory is very crucial for human intelligence and that part of the brain which stores the long term memory is called as hippocampus. Why I am saying this? There has been a research done on Samskritam pundits who have been memorizing and reciting Samskritam slogans for years. Apparently, there has been a positive growth in their brain. Here is a research that was Take a look. Hippocampus Group of highly specialized memorizers and reciters of Vedic Samskritam and of associated texts. Is there structural plasticity in their brains that's probably related to that practice? And we showed that for sure. We showed very dramatic differences in brain structure. This is not a magic or something. We can easily break it down. Take a look at Shruti. This entire knowledge system is an oral tradition which means the Samskritam pundits have to memorize tens of thousands of Samskritam verses, read and recite them every day. Now in which part of the in what kind of a knowledge system are people used to this kind of heavy reading, recitation and memory? There is no comparable education system which has huge amount of memory, reading and recitation like the Vedic education system. I am not trying to undermine any other education system. I am just trying to compare saying that the intensity in memorizing and reciting is at its peak in Samskritam and hence the Samskritam effect is there. This is what I understand logically. Coincidentally Gayatri Mantram which is considered as the epitome of all the mantrams in Samskritam which is recited couple of hundreds of thousands of times a day holds the same meaning as the outcome of the research. Which means empower our intellect. Samskritam in my opinion is the richest heritage of India and is the property of 1.3 billion Indians irrespective of caste or religion or any other aspect. But how can that be saved? Here is what I feel so. This verse says that if a word is a manifestation of Maa Parvati, the meaning of it is the manifestation of Lord Shiva. Just like how inseparable they are, every word and its meaning is inseparable. In simple words, every language is divine. Be it Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, French, Malayalam, Arabic, Urdu, Russian, whichever language that you take. We should never ever hate any language. Period. So first thing, stop fighting about the language supremacy. Second, your mother tongue is a relic of Samskritam. So save it by speaking it. Let me tell you one very important thing. The moment we are ashamed of our own mother tongue, that is the moment where we are killing our own self-confidence and self-respect inherently. Third and most important of all, save Samskritam by learning it or if you can effort, help people who are learning Samskritam. This is our two cents from Project Shivoham to raise awareness about Samskritam. Thank you for watching.