Sanskrit Tidbits
by Bibek Debroy
Sanskrit was India's language for a long time ago. It is one of those few languages which are very old yet surviving in the older form. Prof. Bibek Debroy is a well known figure in the world of economics. He has been a Professsor at various top ranking institutions in the country. He is not so much known for his Sanskrit Scholarship however, he has undertaken the work to translate Mahabharata to english. We are reproducing some of his Sanskrit tidbits, which he is writing as a column on themotherindia.com.
Chapters
- Sanskrit Tidbits-43:Exploring Sanskrit Bharati’s Sanskrit Wikipedia
- Sanskrit Tidbits-41:Vedic Sanskrit and wisdom of Upanishadas
- Sanskrit Tidbits-40:The brilliance of Sanskrit poet Magha
- Sanskrit Tidbits-39:Kalidasa anecdotes
- Sanskrit Tidbits-37:Valmiki’s Poetry
- Sanskrit Tidbits-36:First Shloka of Valmiki Ramayana
- Sanskrit Tidbits-35: Durga Saptashati famous hymn sung by Gods for Goddess Durga made easy
- Sanskrit Tidbits-34:An introduction to Maarkandeya Purana
- Sanskrit Tidbits-33:Shivaashtakam made easy
- Sanskrit Tidbits-32:A shloka by Vivekananda in honour of Paramahansa
- Sanskrit Tidbits-31:Spiritual aspect of Manusmriti
- Sanskrit Tidbits-30:Manusmriti on crimes,punishments,penances and intercourse
- Sanskrit Tidbits-29:More on different Varnas-Brahman,Shudra as per ManuSmriti
- Sanskrit Tidbits-28:Manusmriti and Position of Women
- Sanskrit Tidbits-27:18 Types of cases dealt by kings as per Manusmriti
- Sanskrit Tidbits-26:Duties of a king as per Manusmriti
- Sanskrit Tidbits-25:Strictures on different kinds of food as per Manusmriti
- Sanskrit Tidbits-24:Brahmin and Sanatan Dharma as per Manusmriti
- Sanskrit Tidbits-23:Different types of Marriages as per Manusmriti
- Sanskrit Tidbits-22:An introduction to Manusmriti
- Sanskrit Tidbits-21:How Sanskrit is a two-way flow
- Sanskrit Tidbits-20:More about the sanskrit thesaurus Amarkosha
- Sanskrit Tidbits-19:An introduction to Amarkosha,the Sanskrit Thesaurus
- Sanskrit Tidbits-18:Jayadeva’s Geet Govind and erotic undertones in Radha-Krishna’s love
- Sanskrit Tidbits-17:Exploring Jayadeva’s Geet Govind
- Sanskrit Tidbits-16:Metres in Sanskrit,Fibonacci Series,Pascal’s Triangle and Binomial Theorem
- Sanskrit Tidbits-15:Poetry,Kalidasa,Jaideva and Sanskrit
- Sanskrit Tidbits-14: Deeper Nuances of Sanskrit Poetry
- Sanskrit Tidbits-13:An introduction to Vedangas
- Sanskrit Tidbits-11:Rules, Formulae and Aphorisms
- Sanskrit Tidbits-10: Fun with riddles in Sanskrit
- Sanskrit Tidbits-9:Sanskrit alphabets,phonemes and mathematics
- Sanskrit Tidbits-8: Myth behind different names of Lotus in Sanskrit
- Sanskrit Tidbits-7: Myth behind most commonly used words in hymns
- Sanskrit Tidbits-6:How innovative is Sanskrit!
- Sanskrit Tidbits-5: The Importance of Pronounciation in Sanskrit
- Sanskrit Tidbits-4:Can you detect anything wrong in this picture?
- Sanskrit Tidbits-3
- Sanskrit Tidbits-2
- Sanskrit Tidbits-1