Category Language

The Neglect Of Kannada Language

It will be obvious to any one living in Karnataka,while in Bangalore it is the Telugu,Tamil and North Indian Community leading the Population, you will find the Belgaum area calling Maharashtra is Their Home, Raichur, Gulbarga, Bidar as belonging to Old Hyderabad,South Canara and Kodagu stating that Kannada has dominated and ruined their language,Mysore remains an Island of sorts,Hubli,Dharwar not really bothering about the rest of the State!

Part of the mistake lies in governance,because people in Bangalore think, Bangalore is Karnataka and all the developmental activities are focused in the area with a bit thrown out for Mysore.

Net result is that you do not find as any second cities as in Tamil Nadu, which has Madurai,Tiruchi,Salem,Tirunelveli,Erode,Coimbatore.

People can recall Mysore,Brindavan Gardens,Hampi,Beluru,Halebid,Sravana Belagola,aprt from Bangalore in Karnataka

You may notice that these are essentially tourist spots of interest.

The sad part or the heartwarming fact is that Kannada is at least 2000 years old, if not older, a classical language of India and is spoken by at least 38 Million people.

Yet I find Kannada speaking people in Public a rarity in Bangalore!

Sanskrit is Not From Prakrit

For an Epic with the beauty of Ramayana must have had Grammar.
A Language takes years to form and Grammar takes still more time.
Using that in an Epic, it should have taken hundreds of Years.
Hence Sanskrit precedes Prakrit.
Sanskrit mentions that Sanskrit is Deva Basha, the Language of Gods, while Prakrit was calls the Language of Man, Manusha Basha.
The inference is that while Sanskrit was used for Literary works, Prakrit was in daily usage.
Calling Sanskrit as having been derived from Prakrit is akin to declaring cockney as the Mother of English Language.
There is aview that most of the Jain Literature was written in Prakrit ans hence Sansrit is preceded by Prakrit.
What people forget is jainism is of later origin when compared to Hinduism.
Another ancient language tamil mentions Sanskrit and Prakrit and declares Sanskrit as the language of Indian Philosophy.
The argument that Sanskrit was not the original Language is pure idiotic wishful thinking.
Lets us see now why the argument Sanskrit is not from India is erroneous.