[INDOLOGY] Divine origin of Sanskrit

[Buchta, David]

Hi again,

A further thought: Jīva Gosvāmin (16th c), at the opening of his
Harināmāmṛtavyākaraṇa, says "nārāyaṇād udbhūto'yaṃ varṇakramaḥ." I have
long suspected that he intended to imply a contrast between the "ordinary"
sequence of sounds, which he says comes from Nārāyaṇa, and the sequence
presented by Pāṇini, which of course gets attributed to Śiva. Again, I can
dig up PDFs of a few editions of Jīva's work if needed.
--
David Buchta, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit
Department of Classics
Brown University


On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 10:26 AM Johannes Bronkhorst <
johannes.bronkhorst at unil.ch> wrote:

> I also would be happy (and surprised) to see references to a divine origin
> of Sanskrit. It is true that Sanskrit is *daivī vāk* (Bhartṛhari) “divine
> language” or “language of the gods”, but this does not mean that is has a
> divine origin. In Brahmanical circles, at least since Kātyāyana and Patañjali,
> Sanskrit is eternal and has no origin at all.
>
>  Johannes Bronkhorst
>
>
>
> On 27 Jul 2022, at 13:36, Buchta, David via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> George Cardona has a 1990 paper, "On Attitudes Towards Language in Ancient
> India" that might be helpful. It was published as #15 of the Sino-Platonic
> Papers from the Department of Oriental Studies at UPenn. I can dig up a PDF
> as needed.
>
> Best,
> Dave
> --
> David Buchta, PhD
> Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit
> Department of Classics
> Brown University
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 6:08 AM Gruenendahl, Reinhold <
> gruenen at sub.uni-goettingen.de> wrote:
>
>> Dear list members,
>>
>> I would be very grateful for any references to the concept of a divine
>> origin of Sanskrit in primary and/or secondary literature.
>>
>>
>> With thanks in advance
>>
>> and best wishes
>>
>> Reinhold Grünendahl
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