UP govt started sending out press notes in Sanskrit

The Uttar Pradesh state government has started issuing significant press releases, especially the speeches of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, in Sanskrit language, besides English, Hindi and Urdu.

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Key-Points

Sanskrit is an Old Indo-Aryan language of the ancient Indian subcontinent with a 3,500-year history.

It is the primary sacred language of Hinduism and the predominant language of most works of Hindu philosophy as well as some of the principal texts of Buddhism and Jainism.

Modern Sanskrit is traceable to the 2nd millennium BCE in a form known as Vedic Sanskrit, with the Rigveda as the earliest-known composition.

A more refined and standardized grammatical form called Classical Sanskrit emerged in the mid-1st millennium BCE with the Aṣṭādhyāyī treatise of Pāṇini.

Sanskrit is one of the 22 languages listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India.

In the 2011 Census of India, 24,821 Indians out of about 1.21 billion reported Sanskrit to be their mother tongue.

In modern times, the first Sanskrit University was Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, established in 1791 in the Indian city of Varanasi.