Prabuddha Jivan 2017 10 Matrubhasha Gandhiji ane Samprat Samay Visheshank

SR No.: 526111
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sejal Shah
Publisher: Mumbai Jain Yuvak Sangh
Publication Year: 2017
Total Pages: 60
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Prabuddha Jivan, & India
File Size: 11 MB

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"Soul bondage on a faraway terrestrial chaperoned via mother tongue!
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Prachi Dhanvant Shah
"If you talk to a man in a language that he understands, it goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes straight to his heart" - Nelson Mandela.
This is the quote almost everyone has heard of but the question is how many of us believe in it and infer on it? We know that someone speaks our language, we automatically connect to him and that binds us. But more than that, we often forget, that if don't speak the same language, what it takes to isolate us and what it takes to exclude us from that person. Be that person be a common man or your family.
Retrospecting the history, a prevailing Indo-Aryan language evolved from the Sanskrit language, is termed as "Gujarati". Although, this language has a convincing correlation with Jain religion, as this language was first encrypted by a Jain monk and an eminent scholar Acharya Shri Hemchandra-Charya, back in 12th century CE in the region of Rajput king Siddharaj Jaysinha. His dialect was originally called as "Gurjara Apabhramsa" composing mainly religious verdicts. It is eminent that the Gujarati language acclaimed its admiration by the virtues of Jain authors. The primeval Gujarati poem in 1185 'Bharatesvarabahubali Rasa' was composed by a Jain monk Shalibhadra Sur. Undeniably it can be expressed, that the Gujarati language emerged out of Jain tradition. Eventually, the Gujarati language accomplished its eminence through famous Gujarati writers, poets, and personals commencing from Narsimha Mehta in 16th Century to leaders of 19th Century like Mahatma Gandhi-the father of India, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel - the Iron Man of India and many more. In the 17th Century, the Gujarati language applauded coverage by means of Maha Kavi- A great poet of those times Shree Parmanand. He was a traveling storyteller who conveyed his message through the medium of Gujarati language in the form of long illustrated poems, precisely focusing on the story about Narasimha Mehta. Then after, many Gujarati poets and writers manifested their subsistence leading to the popularity of Gujarati Language. In the era of 19th Century, the
study of Gujarati language can be accredited to a British colonial administrator and a Gujarati scholar Alexander Kinloch Forbes who surveyed thousand years of Gujarati history and amassed many manuscripts. And how can we miscue acknowledging father Carlos G Valles? A renowned author, a mathematician born and brought up in Spain but persuaded himself with a foreign language-Gujarati. This language thrives in his soul, in every nerve of his consciousness and in every aspect of his life. Living in India since five decades, his experience with the Gujarati language strikes his lifespan with the most exquisite novels extensively in Gujarati dialects leading to a count of more than seventy books in Gujarati. Father Valles's inclination towards the Gujarati language for sure surprises me ensuring a mystical allure of this beautiful linguistic-Gujarati. A language of the soul, a language of love, a language that showers saccharinity and unveils an epitome of reverent Gujarati culture. Never the less, Gujarati culture carts the bequest of reflective and prodigious literature.
The prominence of Gujarati language in India is a precise illustrious fact. Gujarati is one of India's twenty-second official language and one of India's fourteenth official regional languages. Thereabouts in India, 30% of all Gujarati speakers are literate in a second language. Gujarati is legitimately acclaimed in the Indian constitution and is spoken by more than 46 million people around the world.
Carrying further the legacy of this esteemed and esthetic language, Gujarati culture has apprehended the Gujarati language around the diaspora just as integral. This mother tongue of Gandhi baapu is still well versed and spoken around the world. Research divulges that outside of India, the most Gujarati speaking population is found in the United Kingdom and the United States of America. And within the USA, it is acclaimed that New Jersey, New York, Texas, and California beholds majority of Gujarati speaking society. The US today is home to nearly 15 lakh individuals of Gujarati origin and more than 3.5 lakh
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