I don't know Sanskrit, but I have heard it spoken on internet radio. I found a website that has broadcasts in many different Indian languages, and was intrigued by Sanskrit.
I could tell just from listening to it that it has a complex structure of inflectional endings on words, much like Latin, and had a pleasant harmony in its spoken delivery.
The Indian guys on this thread: can you understand this language? I am told that it is relatively close to modern Hindi, but I suppose that may mean different things to different people.
About classic Indic civilization and culture: definitely, things were better in the old days. Once the Moghul empire dissolved, the civilization lost confidence and began a long, slow decline.
It may seem incredible now, but overpopulation was not always a problem in India. The historians say that it was reasonably populated, but not crushingly so, as now. And the riches were immense: ivory, spices, precious woods (Burma), gemstones, gold, etc., etc.
I could tell just from listening to it that it has a complex structure of inflectional endings on words, much like Latin, and had a pleasant harmony in its spoken delivery.
The Indian guys on this thread: can you understand this language? I am told that it is relatively close to modern Hindi, but I suppose that may mean different things to different people.
About classic Indic civilization and culture: definitely, things were better in the old days. Once the Moghul empire dissolved, the civilization lost confidence and began a long, slow decline.
It may seem incredible now, but overpopulation was not always a problem in India. The historians say that it was reasonably populated, but not crushingly so, as now. And the riches were immense: ivory, spices, precious woods (Burma), gemstones, gold, etc., etc.