sanskrit as the mother of all european languages
  • "Dievas dave dantis, Dievas duos duonos"
    "Devas adat datas, Devas dasyati dhanas"
    (God gave us teeth, God will give us bread)

    THis is the proverb that exists in both sanskrit and lithuanian.Not a
    single aplphabet has changed.

    source: (http://www.lfcc.lt/publ/roots/node14.html)

    from http://meaindia.nic.in/foreignrelation/lithuania.htm

    Between 1970 and 1980s, Sanskrit was taught at Vilnius University by
    Prof. Ricardas Mironas, who learned and did research in Sanskrit in
    European academic institutions. He translated 13 hymns of the Rig
    Veda into the Lithuanian language and became the 3rd recipient of the
    Jawaharlal Nehru Award (the first two were poets Vacys Reimeris and
    Eduardas Miezelaitis who published their books of poems on India in
    the late 70s). Another Indologist, Vytautas Narvilas published a
    book "Distant, yet very close". In this book, Narvilas identifies an
    obvious parallelism between the trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva
    and the three ancient Baltic Gods of Perkunas, Patrim Pass and
    Pikulas (described as the Creator, Sustainer and Destroyer).
    Narvilas also sees a number of references in Lithuanian folklore
    which are similar to a number of incantations in the Rig Veda and the
    Atharva Veda.

    The Lithuanian linguists and historians believe that there is a close
    similarity between the Lithuanian and Sanskrit languages and claim to
    have very old links with India. They consider Sanskrit, along with
    Lithuanian, to be one of the most ancient languages in the world with
    an emphasis on the similarities of the two languages. The first
    direct knowledge of India reached Lithuania through Lithuanian
    Christian missionaries who served in India since the 16th century.
    Since the early 19th century, most Lithuanian intellectuals were very
    interested in India due to the linguistic affinity between Sanskrit
    and Lithuanian languages. One of the prominent Lithuanian
    philosophers and ideologists of the national movement, Vydunas (real
    name Vilhelmas Storost) was extremely interested in Indian philosophy
    and he has even created his own philosophical system closely based on
    the Vedanta. He argued that before the introduction of Christianity,
    Lithuanian spiritual culture had a lot of similarities with Hinduism.

    from http://www.lki.lt/indexeng.php?lkiEng=6

    Since the 19th century, when the similarity between Lithuanian and
    Sanskrit was discovered, Lithuanians have taken a particular pride in
    their mother tongue as the oldest living Indo-European language. To
    this day, to some Lithuanians their understanding of their
    nationality is based on their linguistic identity. It is no surprise
    then that they proudly quote the French linguist Antoine Meillet, who
    said, that anyone who wanted to hear old Indo-European should go and
    listen to a Lithuanian farmer. The 19th century maxim - the older the
    language the better - is still alive in Lithuania.

    The history of sounds explains how the Lithuanian word sûnus and the
    German Sohn, English son, and Polish syn are not loanwords from one
    language to another, but have the same origin. The same is true of
    the Lithuanian duktë, German Tochter, English daughter, and Polish
    corka.
  • Thank you Priya! Very intresting info
    It seems that influence of Sankrit spread from India
    and
    Lithuanian language must have been got from Sanskrit
    and all other european languages must have been born
    out of that

    The westerb scholars say Rig-Veda dates to 1500 BC and
    atharvana veda, last veda to 200 BC
    I think certainly there is a contradiction since
    Lithuanians and Ukranians have known Atharvana Veda,
    vedas must be very ancient than any recorded
    history,much before any supposed migration which leads
    to the conclusion that Aryan invasion theory is flawed


    as Vijay said, inverse migration would be possible,
    I feel this Sanskrit and Indian civilization must have
    reached upto Central Asia and from there European
    languages must have been formed.So, it seems that
    India is mother of many cultures
  • You know that you will immediately be branded communcal if you even
    remoely suggest anything of this sort , don't you? ; - )

    I personally think the Rig Veda dates back to at least the 3rd
    millenium BC if not earlier.

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