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प्वालः । pvaal Profile picture
@pvaal2
Sep 16, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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#INDOLOGISTS Speaking Sanscreet 🗣

Indian accent is typically made fun of in Western popular culture

Lets reverse the gaze

Any non-native English/French Prof. is expected to have near-native language skill-levels

Can Indologists speak CORRECT Sanskrit with उच्चारणशुद्धिः?
संस्कृतम् emphasizes उच्चारणशुद्धिः -right pronunciation

Wrong pronunciation changes the meaning!

An entire science- शिक्षा - teaches Phonetics/Phonology

Right enunciation is a basic requirement from anyone claiming expertise in Sanskrit

Check out the Sanscreet gate-keepers! ImageImage
#१ Antonia Ruppel, Sanskrit PhD. Author of Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit

Check out her Sanskrit pronunciation

Is there room for substantial improvement?

ऋ ऌ etc
त्रयानाम् for त्रयाणाम् ->णत्वम् completely missing!
तकारः
HalanTa
Viraama
Aarjuna

OK for a teaching Prof ?
#२ “Vedic” Wendy Doniger

Wendy is claimed by acolytes to be able to speak ‘Vedic’

While a full sentence from her in spoken Sanscreet is rare as the blue moon, full-on mutilation of तकारः & ध in English speeches are aplenty

giTTa
mahabaraTTA
Art-a-shasTTra
Daarma
CamaSuTTRA
#३

Sheldon ‘Shelley’ Pollock - the GREATEST contemporary Indological Sanscreetist

Learnt Sanscreet + Old Kannada in India

His embarrassing mugged-up effort compares poorly with a SB weekend student’s spoken Sanskrit!

anu-ghsghr-stosmi !
DHHatHUm!
veeralanam
😂
#४

Now scraping the bottom of the barrel, rather the trashcan!

Check out Prof. ‘I know Sanscreet/mayku sab Sanscreet aati hai’ fame

Empty vanity is only trumped by lack of self-reflection & neuronal density!

Check out the various gems!

PARASI for Prasika!
raummundeer
daul
अनुवर्तते।

To be continued 😂

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Feb 6
Mark Singleton, one of the folks quoted by these Cultural appropriators has started walking his claims back

He now DENIES any Indian copying of Danish/Swedish physical exercises

He blames western religious / political ideologues for mis-representation of his ideas

😂🤣
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1. Continuity of ancient & modern Indian Asana practice ✅
2. Krishnamacharya did NOT copy from Bukh ✅
3. Yoga not connected to gymnastics / army exercises ✅

😂💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼


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5 am only looking at English sources 😂
6 Jason Birch has new material re Asanas 😆😆
7 My claims need some ‘adjustment - solpa adjust maadi’ 🤡

Hopefully, now Yoga will firmly remain the Devil’s favourite ‘exercise’ & will be free of Christian religious fanatical fantasies

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Jul 21, 2023
@talekaayi वर्यः raises an interesting question re: claimed provenance of कवन=water in MW

All dictionaries give कबन्धम् as उदकम् while कवन seems rare

So what gives?

To figure out, here’s a glimpse of how Indologists approached Sanskrit dictionary building

TLDR: कवनम्=उदकम्😀
As shown in Wheat & Witzel



early Indologists were sympathetic to & relied heavily on traditional पण्डिताः for their pioneering works

William Jones is a prime example

As colonialism proceeded, the approach morphed from ‘understanding’ to ‘control’ https://t.co/1YqSTujzOEindica.today/long-reads/whe…
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Question of अधिकारः became important

The principle was understood: Who defines->controls

Dictionaries became one of the key battle-grounds to re-define word meanings & control Sanskrit

🧠Find gaps+errors by natives->fill gaps+ re-define words based on your motive/philosophy
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Apr 17, 2023
Indological Honour Roll 🙏🏼

Paippalada samhita -> “little pepper AtharvaVeda”

Krishna-dvaipayana -> “Krishna of the dark island”

Jambu-dweepa -> “rose apple island”

Kakardave -> “for defecating”

Why ! You can also be an Indologist ! Its easy

Please send in your selections
To kick off the new list

१ Ramakrishna “Superlative Swan” Image
A brilliant Indological tour-de-force by @veejaysai

Harvard’s leadership in Indology under threat!

Apasthamba Prayoga ->The method of the water pillars

Uttara Mimamsa ->Answerable Memes

Yagnavalkya Smriti ->The memories of Yagnavalkya

Bhakti Yoga ->The devotional Yoga

👇🏼
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Dec 14, 2022
११ Beautiful Brilliant Spoken Samskritam

A thread ⬇️ pvaalsamskritam.com/2022/12/14/%e0…
What does naturally spoken Samskritam sound like ? What should we aspire to ?

१ Shri K S Maheshwaran provides a wonderful example of technical argumentation in Samskritam

The language used is nuanced & brilliant, yet understandable to संस्कृतम् students
For folks used to Greek/Roman logic & philosophy, Nyaya & Mimamsa debates provide a brilliant counterpoint of how sophisticated, precise language is used in Indian philosophy
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Dec 13, 2022
१० Ashtadhyayi.com

A thread ⬇️ pvaalsamskritam.com/2022/12/13/%e0…
The single greatest resource for all Samskrita students

ashtadhyayi.com is the one resource that you cannot live without.

Amazing in scope, brilliant in depth and a source of credible information
Dhatu Patha

धातुः is the root of all Sanskrit words!

An example is भू which is defined as सत्तायाम् (being, existence).

Each dhatu is categorized differently from a grammatical perspective (भ्वादि, अकर्मक etc)
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Dec 12, 2022
८ विभक्तिः

A thread ⬇️ pvaalsamskritam.com/2022/12/12/%e0…
The importance of learning विभक्तिः !

Why do we need to mug up the dreaded Vibhakti tables ? Why रामः रामौ रामाः ?

Vibhaktis are absolutely brilliant - here is why !

जंगल शाम अस्त्र घने रावण सोमवार में मारा को को एक ने राम से
Challenge: १ Unscramble this sentence! २ Also provide ‘one correct’ meaning ONLY

Even this FAMILIAR sentence takes effort to correctly bring together in Hindi!

Correct answer: राम ने रावण को घने जंगल में एक सोमवार शाम को अस्त्र से मारा
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