Sanskrit Village !!
Sanskrit as an everyday spoken language in the
village of Mattur near Shimoga in Karnataka (about 300 Km from Bangalore City)and 3 other villages in India !!
There are a number of villages in the country where
all daily activities of life are conducted only in Sanskrit. The prominent
villages in this group are Muttoor and Hosahalli in Karnataka and Jhiri and
Mohad in Madhya Pradesh where Sanskrit has truly become language of the masses.
More than 95 per cent the people of Muttoor and hundred per cent people in
Jhiri speak Sanskrit.
Muttoor (Karnataka)
Apart from Muttoor, Hosahalli and Jhiri; Mohad and Baghuwar in Madhya Pradesh
and Ganoda under Banswara district of Rajasthan are also the villages where
Sanskrit is spoken by majority of the villagers. Not only for asking well-being
of each other but even while ploughing the fields, talking on telephone,
purchasing goods from the grocer’s shop, getting the hair cut at barber’s shop,
preparing food in kitchen, etc. people freely speak Sanskrit. The containers
having spices and other things in the kitchen too contain the names in
Sanskrit. Nobody in these villages thinks what will happen by learning
Sanskrit. Whether it will help in getting a job or not. It is our language and
we have to learn it is the only feeling amongst them.
Muttoor,
the village of about 2,000 inhabitants, is located about 8 km south of Shimoga.
The Tunga river flows gently on one side of the village. Its fame as the
Sanskrit Gram has spread far and wide. Sanskrit is the spoken language of over
95 per cent of the people here. Soft and dulcet, a conversation sounds like a
Vedic recital. Though it is a journey, which began about 500 years ago, Sanskrit
has been modified as per the modern needs here by Samskrit Bharati. As one
enters the village he is greeted with " bhavatha nam kim? (What is your name?), "coffee va chaayam kim ichchhathi
bhavan? (What will you have, coffee or tea?). The pronunciation of "Hari Om" instead of
‘hello’ and "katham
asti" instead of ‘how are you?’ are common here.
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