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Hindi, the fourth most spoken language of the world, is the direct descendant of Vedic Sanskrit. Therefore, Sanskrit is the mother of Hindi. As such it can not be taken as an invader which replaced Sanskrit. At a time when transportation facilities were not available, Shankaracharya [788CE -820CE
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Hindi, the fourth most spoken language of the world, is the direct descendant of Vedic Sanskrit. Therefore,Sanskrit is the mother of Hindi. As such it can not be taken as an invader which replaced Sanskrit. At a time when transportation facilities were not available, Shankaracharya [788CE -820CE read less
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Sanskrit was never a language of the masses. The Prakrits were. These were two parallel systems. Hindi is from a Prakrit and in the past few decades infused with a lot of Sanskrit vocabulary. If people dig up our civilisation 2000 years later, they might see the various Sanskrit slogans of government...
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Sanskrit was never a language of the masses. The Prakrits were. These were two parallel systems. Hindi is from a Prakrit and in the past few decades infused with a lot of Sanskrit vocabulary. If people dig up our civilisation 2000 years later, they might see the various Sanskrit slogans of government bodies emblazoned in pillars, our national motto from the Upanishads written in various places, the various missile names from Sanskrit etc. and could conclude that the people of 2000s AD spoke Sanskrit. But, we know that is not true. Sanskrit was a literary language and it was mostly confined to the elites. There is no evidence that common men spoke in an everyday context in Sanskrit read less
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Here are some reasons why Hindi became more popular in India than Sanskrit ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵: - Hindi is a direct descendant of Vedic Sanskrit. - Sanskrit is an ancient language that was not spoken by common people. - The British colonial strategy of pushing English as the language of administration...
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Here are some reasons why Hindi became more popular in India than Sanskrit ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵: - Hindi is a direct descendant of Vedic Sanskrit. - Sanskrit is an ancient language that was not spoken by common people. - The British colonial strategy of pushing English as the language of administration and education undercut the use of Sanskrit. - Hindi was influenced by Persian and Arabic, which were used by the Mughal rulers of India. - Hindi is written in the Devanagari script, which is also used for Sanskrit. read less
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Because it was more flexible and easy, same as why people chose prakrit over Sanskrit
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Sanskrit was never a language of the masses. The Prakrits were. These were two parallel systems. Hindi is from a Prakrit and in the past few decades infused with a lot of Sanskrit vocabulary.
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Sanskrit was never a language of the masses.ThePrakritswere.These were two parallel systems.Hindi is from a Prakrit and in the past few decades infused with a lot of Sanskrit vocabulary. read less
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Sanskrit was never a language of the masses. The Prakrits were. These were two parallel systems. Hindi is from a Prakrit and in the past few decades infused with a lot of Sanskrit vocabulary. If people dig up our civilisation 2000 years later, they might see the various Sanskrit slogans of government...
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Sanskrit was never a language of the masses. The Prakrits were. These were two parallel systems. Hindi is from a Prakrit and in the past few decades infused with a lot of Sanskrit vocabulary. If people dig up our civilisation 2000 years later, they might see the various Sanskrit slogans of government bodies emblazoned in pillars, our national motto from the Upanishads written in various places, the various missile names from Sanskrit etc. and could conclude that the people of 2000s AD spoke Sanskrit. But, we know that is not true. Sanskrit was a literary language and it was mostly confined to the elites. There is no evidence that common men spoke in an everyday context in Sanskrit. read less
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