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Re: Vedic scholarship in India
anandr@nebfef.com (Anand Raghavendran) writes:
>In article <4hpq6t$8hv@babbage.ece.uc.edu>,
> Sankar Jayanarayanan <kartik@Eng.Auburn.EDU> wrote:
>>As my friend said, in a few years, even chanting of the Vedas would be
>history.
>>What was handed down generation after generation as the nectar of
>spirituality
>>is decaying so fast that there may be nothing at all soon.Already, in the
>north, there is almost none who knows the Vedas.
Yup. And there is noone who reads the Egyptian Book of the Dead, except as
history.
>I saw the GV Iyer movie in sanskrit on shankarAcharya and in that
>the following scene is depicted:
>Young shankara and two of his friends are watching a person clandestinely
>climbing a coconut tree and stealing the coconuts. Then, this person is
>spotted by one of the maintainers of the coconut groove. He asks this person
>to climb down from the tree. The thief is trembling with fear and does not
>know what awaits him for punishment. To the amazement of shankara and his
>friends, the other person brings him food and asks him to partake it.
