In life or business there are many times, when we are focused on the future growth. We come up with great plans, course of action to achieve...

Now for a lighter post, after much serious and newsie stuff :) Pun is a very powerful tool used in Sanskrit just because the language kind...

Some Sanskrit related news recently found on the web - Rare Buddhist relics on view - "The Sanskrit manuscripts are from a cache of...

The cheetah was native to India and made extinct due to excessive hunting. Now the Indian government maybe planning to bring it back to Ind...

Soap bubble = phenila-budbuda = फेनिल-बुद्बुद फेनिल = soap. That which foams. बुद्बुद = bubble. This is an onomatopoeia word, based on...

बालः क्रीडति = bAlaH krIDati = boy plays. What you see in the front is a wooden devanAgarI (देवनागरी) alphabet board. I had seen these on...

The word for color in Sanskrit is 'varNa' (वर्ण) and it actually signifies quality, one of them being color. It is also used for the...

किमार्द्रक-वणिजो वहित्र-चिन्तया kimArdraka-vaNijo vahitra-chintayA kimārdraka-vaṇijo vahitra-cintayā What [would] a ginger merchant [hav...

दीपो भक्षयते ध्वान्तं कज्जलं च प्रसूयते | यदन्नं भक्षयेन्नित्यं जायते तादृशी प्रजा || dIpo bhakShayate dhvAntam kajjalam cha prasUyate | ...

The suffix -kAra makes the 'doer of' 'maker of/by/with' स्वर्णकारः = swarNa-kAraH = maker (kAraH) [with] gold (swarNa)= gol...