sanskrit

How about having the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit (and preferably for me) transliterated Sanskrit (since much of the beauty comes from how it's sung)?

In the mean time, the Indologists point and laugh cuz they can tell you exactly how Sanskrit sounded all those thousands of years ago.

A few years ago I read a bunch of Sanskrit & Arabic mathematics papers from about 500-1500 BCE.

He learned Sanskrit in order to read Eastern religious texts in their original forms.

Tamil, reportedly considered equally ancient in some respects, may also have enough early differences from Sanskrit conceptions of understanding to merit a mention.

I first tried to learn Sanskrit in August 2013, but later dropped out of my study program.

Same holds for Sanskrit in ancient India, which lacks any definite article.

It's that aha moment that you can induce in people (and yourself), that leaves them baffled and amazed (the sanskrit word for this is ascarya, wonderment).

And for Malayalam there are consonant patterns which do not match itself to the Sanskrit model which makes it rather odd to write half-consonants which are full syllables (വ്യഞ്ജനം +് zwj).

Some day I will definitely look into Sanskrit and other languages that I’m least familiar with and examine how the idea of understanding is expressed, in the endeavor to understand what is understanding.

I got to be friends with a few of the H1-Bs when I was working at a large company that hired a lot of H1-Bs (mostly Indian, always knew the best places to eat, and since I'd studied Sanskrit in grad.

In Interstellar(2014 Movie), Matthew McConaughey chases an Indian Surveillance drone and hacks it through his laptop in which, all the instructions were in Sanskrit (It was a 1-2 second glimpse of the screen so don't know exactly what was there or whether it was in Devnagari).

When I was young, we wrote all our code by hand using ed in Sanskrit, printed it out and hand soldered into hardware using tools we made by smelting our own iron!".

Funny thing is that the Persians knew citrus fruits (originated in Central Asia) long before the Portuguese but they also call it portqale while the Portuguese name (laranja) comes from the sanskrit "nāraṅga" brought by the Persians themselves.

For another example, take the following statements on Taoism: 道可道非常道 ("The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao") and 名可名非常名 ("The name that can be named is not the eternal name.") It would also have been nice to see an attempt at including Sanskrit, the other obvious alternative in Asia (its vast, heavily philosophical and analytical corpus of text is likely a fertile ground for research) - eg.

Marathi/Hindi/Sanskrit (which use devanagari) have a bunch of basic consonants and some vowels (which can appear independently or as modifiers).

If a language has spiritual value (like Latin, Sanskrit, or Classical Arabic), that's tapping into a narrower but deeper source of prestige.

Not only that; it's already been tried, although using Sanskrit, not Latin.