Sanskrit Language: A Crying need for Primary Classes in Odisha

Abstract

Today’s children are citizens of tomorrow. The children are divine creation of god. They are fragrance of the society like theflowers in the garden. Language is needed to nourish a tender child. It can be achieved through proper learning system. Learning is a fundamentalprocess of life engaging, much of our waking hours, affecting all forms of behavior skills, knowledge, attitudes, personality, motivation, fear, mannerism etc. It is the process of gaining knowledge andexpertise. Like any muscle in the body, regularly exercising your braincan make stronger and more flexible. It allows us to think, feel, listen, speak, read and write in new ways wenever thought possible. We learn new things about ourselves. There are 78.05% of Indians speak Indo-Aryan languages, 19.64% people speaks Dravidian languages and remaining 2.31% of the populationbelongs to other language families. The Indian constitution refers to 22 languages, which arecalledscheduled languages. These are the languages that have been given official acknowledgement andsupport. It is the matter of pleasure that Seven Indian villages where people speak inSanskrit. The word ‘Sanskrit’ means adorned, refined, polished, perfected, elaborated, well or thoroughlyformed. It is called Deva Bhasha, Sura (devata) bhasha (Vidwansahvaidevah-Learned Persons always known assacred persons), Amruta Bhasha, Divya, Lalityamayee and Madhura Bhasha. To develop our reformed human attitude, behavior skills, personality and gaining the original and basic knowledge with increasing expertise nesswe must learn Sanskrit. But it is badly necessary to know how to learn this language in Primary classes i.e. in the age of the foundation of behaviour?