sanskrit

NEW DELHI: The oath-taking ceremony held on Monday at Parliament saw a different picture displaying linguistic diversity with the newly elected MPs taking their oaths in English and Indian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, Dogri, Bengali, Assamese, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Odia. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s daughter, Bansuri Swaraj, took her oath in Sanskrit as […]

There was a time when Hindus were leading the world in science. Many people will challenge this assertion, but here is what the prominent medieval Muslim Arab scholar Sa’id ibn Ahmad al-Andalusi (1029-1070 ) wrote in his book Tabaqat al-‘umam, the earliest book on the history of science: “The first people in the world to […]

The manuscript will be displayed alongside the original text of Panini’s Ashtadhyayi

China’s recent move to rename places in Arunachal Pradesh that Beijing claims as part of Southern Tibet, has been met with strong opposition from India. This is not the first time China has made such an attempt, and India has rejected it outright, stating that these invented names will not affect India’s sovereignty over the […]

ICCR and Google have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate and help improve Google’s provision of Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning language technology for the translation of Sanskrit text to various other languages and vice versa.