Sanskrit set to turn into lingua franca of this Thiruvananthapuram locality

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 17 : If you order ‘Mashavadakam’ in Mani’s tea store at Karamana in Thiruvananthapuram, you’ll get a reduction of Re 1 from the the precise value of Rs 5 for the favored snack ‘Uzhunnuvada’. Mashavadakam is the Sanskrit identify for Uzhunnuvada and that is Mani’s small contribution to the event of Sanskrit language on this hamlet of Karamana.The Vishwa Samskrita Pratishthanam and the Samskrita Bharathi have joined collectively to advertise the traditional language on this space. Around 2000 individuals stay right here, and greater than half of them can perceive Sanskrit whereas a lot of them can talk within the historical language.H.G. Mahadevan, a product of Government Engineering College, Thiruvananthapuram, who has served in numerous capacities as an engineer in Europe and India, took avid curiosity in selling the language among the many individuals of this space after his retirement in 2018.Mahadevan informed IANS “Sanskrit is a language which needs to be promoted and this area has a rich background in Sanskrit from time immemorial. So we thought why not be a little more active in promoting the language? We were going smoothly with our endeavour until Covid struck.”He mentioned that the M.H. Sasthrikal Smaraka Samskrita Padana Pracharana Kendram together with the Vishwa Sanskrita Prathishtanam and Samskrita Bharathi is selling the language. Mahadevan is the son of illustrious Sankrit scholar late M.H. Sasthrikal, who was thought of as a strolling encyclopedia for Sanskrit.Two lecturers, Santhosh Kumar and Janani, are the inspiring fashions for the scholars of Sanskrit within the ‘Agraharams’ or Brahmin settlements in Karamana, which is within the coronary heart of Thiruvananthapuram metropolis.H. Ramakrishnan, a chartered accountant who lives within the Agraharam, informed IANS, “From little children to elderly people, Sanskrit is popular among all in our area right now, and the ancient language getting promoted in this manner is a tribute to the language as well as its earlier proponents like M.H. Sashtrikal, who knew the intricacies of the language in all aspects.” There are 4 white signal boards in several areas of Karamana and every day a brand new sentence in Sanskrit is written on them so that there’s freshness within the promotion of the language.Slowly however steadily, the Karamana space is popping into a serious Sanskrit hub and the Devanagari language is popping into a method assertion of this space.Mahadevan, who’s relentlessly campaigning for the promotion of the language, informed IANS, “Making each and every person in this area speak in Sanskrit is the motto and we are sure that in a few years down the line, we will achieve this dream.”The group had performed an exhibition to start out with on the Karamana group corridor wherein all the favored objects had been displayed with every product having a Sanskrit caption along with the Malayalam titles.”This made people familiar with the common materials which we use daily and finding their Sanskrit meaning made people understand the language through a first-hand experience”, Mahadevan mentioned.Another exhibition was held later and these exhibitions made individuals extra conscious in regards to the Sanskrit names of the merchandise which they use each day.Aadikesavan, a chief common supervisor on the State Bank of India and a resident of Karamana, informed IANS, “This Tamil settlement has had a long lineage of Sanskrit scholars for at least three centuries. Indeed, Karamana was the cultural hub of Thiruvananthapuram those days. The scholars were progressive and one of them, Parasurama Sastry, in fact founded the first woman’s only mutt in Thiruvananthapuram, the Bharathi Sarada Matom.”