Today, let us pray to Goddess Saraswati!:
सरस्वति नमस्तुभ्यं वरदे कामरुपिणि ।
विद्यारम्भं करिष्यामि सिद्धिरभवतु मे सदा॥
sarasvati namastubhyaṃ varade kāmarupiṇi ।
vidyārambhaṃ kariṣyāmi siddhirabhavatu me sadā ॥
This is a direct address to the Goddess of Learning. It means
Oh Goddess Sarasvati ! I bow down to you. You are the gracious boon-giver! You are beautiful in form! I will embark on my study, and may success come to me always!
The words used to addess the Goddess are sarasvati, varade, and kāmarupiṇi .
sarasvati Oh, Goddess Sarasvati !
varade Oh, boon-giver!
kāmarupiṇi Oh, One beautiful in form!
namaḥ I bow down
tubhyaṃ to you!
kariṣyāmi I will embark on
vidyārambhaṃ study
me to me
siddhiḥ success
bhavatu may it come
sadā always!
In Sanskrit, when we address someone, we use a special form of the noun called sambodhana which, in English, they call the Vocative case. So, I can just say, Hare! Rāma! Kṛṣṇa! Sarasvati! Varade! to say, "Oh, Hari! Oh, Rama! Oh, Krishna! Oh, Saraswati! Oh, Boon-giver goddess! This makes the message unambiguous, and I do not need to add Oh every time!
Also, we have seen many verbs so far.
karoti makes
laṅghayate makes climb
vande bow down to
upāsmahe we worship
namaḥ My obeisances (a special type of verb)
kariṣyāmi I will embark
bhavatu May it be
In Sanskrit, the verbs are in myriad forms to indicate the present, past and future tenses, as well as moods, requests and wishes and conjectures! And all these verb forms are derived from a core set of over 2,000 verb roots which were listed by Maharshi Panini (Mahaṛṣi Pāṇini) in the 3rd century BCE.
Both nouns and verbs can all be traced back 95% percent of the time to these 2000 root verbs. And the Sanskrit vocabulary is already available in millions of words. One can even coin new words to suit one's purpose readily, as long as one follows the Panini Grammar rules. Panini has been hailed as perhaps the greatest mind ever, as he was able to create a system of grammar to define this perfect language. Indeed, computer scientists and AI researchers are now studying the methods of Panini to create new forms of logic.
Did you know Mendeleev used the Panini ideas to create the Periodic Table!?
Vande mātaram ! Vande samskṛtam !
