This document introduces Dr. Viswaja S. Nair, an assistant professor of Sanskrit at Sree Krishna College. It provides background information on Sanskrit, including that it is over 3,500 years old, uses the Devanagari script, and is classified into Vedic and Classical periods. It notes that Sanskrit is an official language in India and two states, and gives current statistics on Sanskrit speakers in India and Nepal. In closing, it states that Sanskrit remains widely used today in religious texts despite its complexity.

1. WELCOME
DR. VISWAJA S. NAIR
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF SANSKRIT
SREE KRISHNA COLLEGE, GURUVAYUR
ARIYANNUR P.O.
viswa.vsn@gmail.com
9447718051

2. A few words about
Sanskrit

3.  Sanskrit is an Indo-Aryan or Indic language of the ancient Indian
subcontinent with a 3,500-year history .
 Sanskrit holds a prominent position in Indo-European studies.
 Devanagari script is using to write Sanskrit.

4. Vedic and Classical Sanskrit
 Sanskrit in terms of its literary association is classified into
two different periods, the Vedic and Classical
 Vedic Sanskrit belongs to the early Old Indo-Aryan
 The earliest attested Sanskrit text is the Rigveda
 Classical Sanskrit belongs to the later Old Indo-Aryan stage

5. This is one of the oldest surviving and dated palm-leaf
manuscript in Sanskrit (828 CE).

6. Official status of Sanskrit
in India
 In India, Sanskrit is among the 22 official languages of India in the Eighth
Schedule to the Constitution.
 In 2010, Uttarakhand became the first state in India to make Sanskrit its
second official language.
 In 2019, Himachal Pradesh made Sanskrit its second official language,
becoming the second state in India to do so.

7. Presently..
 24,821 people in India and 1,669 people
in Nepal have registered Sanskrit as their
mother tongue.
 There are 2,360,821 total speakers of
Sanskrit in India.

10. And...
 An extraordinarily complex language with a
vast vocabulary, it is still widely used today in
the reading of sacred texts and hymns.

11. THANK YOU
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