We need a million Sanskrit schools in Bharat and I would request all the readers that one of us must plan, organise and help financially to open more schools to save our ancient Sanskrit and by that we can save our Sanskriti, culture,hertage, traditions, wisdom and ancient knowledge in Vedas, Puranas, Epics way of life and identity. I SALUTE THIS RISHI. I wish go and see him soon. Dr. s. sharma >From: Muni Trayam <munitraya@xxxxxxxxx> >To: Shreyas Sarangan <sarangan@xxxxxxxxx>, SriRangaSri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: [SriRangaSri] Sanskrit wrapped in heritage >Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 05:32:56 -0700 (PDT) > >Its great to hear that even in this materialistic world, >O.R.Rajagopalachariar swami is teaching Sanskrit for the past 50 years >without looking for a single penny. Am totally astonished by the killer >instinct of this swami. I think he is one man born for Sanskrit. >My salute to this swami. > > > >Shreyas Sarangan <sarangan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/edu/2004/06/28/stories/20040628002408 >00.htm > >Sanskrit wrapped in heritage > >The `language of the heavens' comes alive here. Mambalam Samskritha >Vidyalaya continues to build on its experience of teaching Sanskrit >for .ve decades. > >A Sanskrit class in progress at Orient Math School, West Mambalam, >Chennai. -- Photo: R. Ragu > >ADMISSION FEE to a medical college: Rs. 2,50,000 > >For a journalism programme: Rs. 1,50,000 > >For an engineering programme: Rs. 25,000 > >For Mambalam Samskritha Vidyalaya: Re. 1 > >Here, at Oriental Math School, beside the chaos on Madley Road >subway, patiently sits an 84-year-old man, whose eyes twinkle >brighter than the diamond studs on his ears. For 50 years, to over a >1,000 students, he has been teaching Kalidasa's poetry, Bhavabhuthi's >dramas and the choicest Sanskrit literature. And he has never ever >asked even a rupee from any of them as school fee. > >`Periya Master' to his students, the frail scholar OR Rajagopalan, >started this Vidyalaya beside a well 50 years ago. And he has never >missed a class, even when his wife was ill and admitted in hospital. >This vidwan has taught the schoolboy and the software professional, >the Hindi teacher and the college girl. Even if there are just two >students in the class on one fine day, Mr. Rajagopalan would not >mind. He will teach them happily, with his trademark commitment. > >Today, there is a class of youngsters, several of them college >students, hanging on to his every word. In his clear voice he takes >them through a lesson in the syllabus prescribed by the Samskritha >Bhasha Pracharini Sabha, Chitoor, which conducts Sanskrit >examinations every six months. > >Like the Hindi Prachar Sabha, this institution conducts examinations >twice a year for Sanskrit students. The course has six levels, from >Parichaya (for the beginner) to Abhigna, Vichakshana, Samartha, >Kovidha and Vidhya Bhushana, which is on a par with an MA in >Sanskrit, says OR Devanathan, a honorary lecturer at the Vidyalaya. >Classes are on from 6 p.m., thrice a week for the beginner levels and >daily for senior students. > >A specialty at the Vidyalaya is the Saturday `Vagvardhini Sabha' >where students are taught to speak in Sanskrit. "In fact, we use it >as a forum to discuss social issues," says one student. The >Vidyalaya, in many ways, is a throwback to a different age, run by an >idealistic old man who believes that Sanskrit cannot be sold. > >Dhanya Parthasarathy > >--------------------------------- >Do you Yahoo!? >New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/VkWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SriRangaSri/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: SriRangaSri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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