Centre of Excellence for Indian Knowledge System

1) I am interested in various usages that are either current or gradually gaining currency in Modern Sanskrit writings. Many of them do not overtly seem to comply with the idiom of Classical Sanskrit. They seem to have stemmed from the idiom of prevailing languages. However a careful study of pre-paninian and post vedic literature authenticates a few of such usages. There are other usages prevalent in Modern Sanskrit writings that don't fall under the purview of Paninian Grammar and would thus be termed as 'ungrammatical' by traditional scholars. However, they are by now too current to be discarded. There is hence a need to reinterpret the rules of Paninian Grammar with an accommodative approach in order to account for these usages. With the advent of technology, changing overall environment, patronage and readership of Sanskrit writings and similar other factors, challenges in front of Modern Sanskrit writers are of a different nature. I wish to assist them in various ways with my research. I wish to bring forth the idiom of Classical Sanskrit by analysing especially in the pre-paninian non-ornate writings. I then wish to present my findings in form of a ready reference to the writers. This study may culminate into a Sanskrit Grammar and Language Checking tool for modern Sanskrit writers.

2) Secondly I wish to devise a step by step approach towards understanding core texts in Sanskrit Grammar. This can be made possible by creating abridged versions of such texts. Sanskrit literature has been extensively translated into other languages during the last couple of decades. However, the tradition of writing Sanskrit commentaries on shastric texts has almost come to a standstill. Writing lucid Sanskrit commentaries and supplementing them with abundant examples, tables, charts and diagrams wherever necessary is another way to make them more understandable.