The Sanskrit Letter

Dear Pinkal K. Bhatt of Vadodara- Gujarat, India:

I found your fascinating article today after I had been tasked by our transportation department with displaying spoken language differences in Harris County (http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/pinkal-bhatt/sanskrit-great-ancient-language-india-bharat-hindustan).

From the writings of explorer Graham Hancock, I already had an interest in ancient oral traditions passed down via Sanskrit, but your article mentioning “the only unambiguous language” and Rick Briggs (NASA) “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) quote double-double-doubled the intrigue!

Since you so kindly shared your email address with this article, I hope you do not mind this inquiry from one as yet completely ignorant of the most “amazingly rich, efflorescent” ancient mother tongue.

Twenty five years ago, I was amazed at the clarity of high-school German and its conjugations and being able to decode Goethe in his own words. Yet German is but a messy derivation of Latin, which itself is a messy derivation of Greek, which you have shown to be a messy diminution of ancient Sanskrit. Is there any truth to legends (i.e. 7 Sages) that say Sanskrit was meant to keep alive the memories and messages of human civilization and cultures through the trying times that accompanied the end of the long, stable ice age environment? I have been researching adaptation planning in response to anthropogenic climate change, most likely the cause of the latest and current great global catastrophe at the close of the past ice age. Will Sanskrit and sufficient human knowledge of the content encoded in it be able to pass on “largely unexplored” treasures along with our own civilization’s perhaps paltry science? I once suggested to learned colleagues that it stands to reason that great huge lizards would result from free ranging across a global territory stable in “hot-box” climate for many millions of years, even as the large mammals we have lost or are losing now arrived toward the end of a much shorter period of “cold-box” climate stability. It was as if ears could not hear, and no one seemed interested.

Am I correct to assume that, like the languages, current human culture has been greatly dimmed by the great disasters and near-extinctions since humans experienced the last glacial maximum? And since the surface of the sea dropped slowly over a hundred thousand years during the past ice age, would we not be likely to discover (if) any durable remains of ancient civilization rest on the seafloor approaching 120 meters below recent sea levels, perhaps at the deltas of large ice age rivers? Imagining how little of our constructions would survive underwater for 10 millennia, however, makes me think that the Sanskrit oral tradition may hold more valuable information than any physical remains ever could. What do you think are the chances that AI routines could “unearth” for English speakers today at least the broad strokes of content in these oral traditions? How do megalithic archaeological structures relate to the culture that developed ancient Sanskrit? Could some eroded megalithic remains be but the rude foundations of much more interesting constructions? Could humans have reached super sizes toward the end of the last ice age, just like the other great animals alive at the time? Could our current human bloom on Earth not be unique to our time? Does the Sanskrit record a time of giants on the Earth or ancient advanced civilizations otherwise lost entirely to our collective human memory?

Recent happenings are quite detailed in memory, yet the farther back one looks in time the less detail, color and connection events seem to exhibit in memory. There seems a natural haze within our vision of things far out in time and in space that tends to cloud the specifics. I have been struggling for several years to find a word that represents this concept, perhaps you might know one. That same concept seems to hold at larger scales, even in the most careful scrutiny of the fossil or geological record of Earth. Could this concept be true also looking into deep space, or can events there be more faithfully recorded in our perceptions of radiation emitted thirteen or fifteen billion years ago? Is ancient Sanskrit like a human radiation from the deep past, able to retain its fidelity even if the content it describes is unfamiliar to any contemporary human mind? Are meanings of oral traditions recorded in ancient Sanskrit understandable at any era with an expenditure of effort to understand them? Are such things as technological bursts of human flight and world war present in the deep history of humanity? Has any civilization ever succeeded in maintaining a peaceful existence for long periods of time? 2000 years ago, was Panini only the latest to describe the "the framework of grammar" of classical Sanskrit? Who is making sure that an ancient Sanskrit oral record continues to transmit into the future? Who is closest to being able to translate and exegete meanings beneficial to the present predicament of public affairs?

I apologize in advance if any of this stuff is plain off-track or crazy. Any enlightening responses, references, or forwarding to other knowledgeable parties regarding any of the above would be so very much appreciated. And so ends my little message in a digital bottle. Thank you for your kindness, time and attention.