Re: Why doesn't the Gita use Vedic?

On Dec 14, 12:51 pm, Joachim Pense <s...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ranjit_math...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Dec 12, 3:15 pm, Joachim Pense <s...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Am Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:05:15 +0100 schrieb Joachim Pense:

I am unable to understand why Sanskrit was used and not Vedic under
these circumstances.

Why did Mahyana Buddhists use Sanskrit* and not Vedic?

Why should they want to use Vedic?

I guess they did not want to use Pali because that was the language of
the others. So they took the learned language that was at hand.

Many of the works were translations from Pali. So, perhaps Sanskrit
went a longer way than Pali in terms of its being understood by
learned people over a larger area even if Pali had more speakers.
Also, I have seen it said that a large proportion of Buddhist monks in
India were ex-Brahmins which might explain an affinity to Sanskrit.

But why did you bring up the Buddhists at all?

.... because the Buddhists were market driven in their choice of
language. That Hindus' choice of language was similar to the
Buddhists' choice of language shows that Hindus too were market driven
in their choice of which incarnation of Sanskrit to use.

FWIW, my question was why the
(pre-)"Hindus" did not write their later religious texts in Vedic, or even
step back trying to restore it?

Panini called Vedic Chandas (incantation language) and Bhasha the
prose language and described the two as having different features.

What is the use of artificially conserving a language (Sanskrit) and keeping
it in high esteem when it already has visibly moved away from the language
of the early scriptures (Vedic)?

Why is King's English kept in high esteem when it has moved away from
calling a forest a weald?

Is there maybe some taboo around that forbids using "pure" Vedic for
anything else than its recitation in religious rituals?

Chandas was designated as a recitation language and Bhasha (Paninian
Sanskrit being its standard form) was designated as a prose language.
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