Why Are There No Women Granthies In Darbar Sahib?

[JSinghnz]

know all, Thats made me laugh, nice one.

There's nothing Brahmanical about it bro. Why do you think it is?

What has Sankriti to do with Sikhism? It is everything to do with Brahmins.

[chatanga]

Sanskriti bro, is another word for tradition, not pertaining to the actual language of Sanskrit.

other words for tradition in Panjabi

reet, ravayat, parnali, pratha and some others as well.

[JSinghnz]

Sanskriti bro, is another word for tradition, not pertaining to the actual language of Sanskrit.

other words for tradition in Panjabi

reet, ravayat, parnali, pratha and some others as well.

And when do you plan to break free from the shackles of your old rotten traditions, reets, parnalis

pranthas and whatever and follow the path shown by our Great Gurus.

[HKaur16]

Brother I will be content if you can find any Hukumnama from Guru Sahib or any reliable GURMAT source that claims that menstruation causes a problem to suchta? I understand that touching your eyes, ears, mouth will cause problem to suchamta. But not to be explicit brother, once again there is a large difference between menstruation and touching your eyes, ears, and mouth. Brother I'm not trying to argue or debate I am just asking for a Hukumnama or any reliable GURMAT source supporting your claim.

[TigerStyleZ]

Loooooooool! Menstruation causes a problem to suchta! Great ! OMG!

Who says that? Man, what you are saying is just so Islamic and Brahman - Women are equal to us - nor they are better nor they are more worse than us! There is no reason behind that - Our gurus clearly said that we need to "recognize the WHOLE human race as ONE". Are you trying to supress women or what?

Punjabi is as old respectively older as Sanskriti did you know that , brother?

[chatanga]

And when do you plan to break free from the shackles of your old rotten traditions, reets, parnalis

pranthas and whatever and follow the path shown by our Great Gurus.

You killing me you know brother.

Punjabi is as old respectively older as Sanskriti did you know that , brother?

we're going off topic, but no it is not. Sanskrit is older than Panjabi. Where did Sanskrit begin? When did Panjabi begin?

Lets revive a previous, if existing topic on Sanskrit, or start a new one.

[TigerStyleZ]

Scholars: Punjabi is the Oldest Language?

by C.S. KANWAR

sikhchic.com | The Art and Culture of the Diaspora | Scholars: Punjabi is the Oldest Language?

"People of the Punjab were not mute when the world's oldest civilization - in the Indus Valley, which includes the modern-day Punjabs - flourished in the north-west part of the subcontinent.

"The Punjabis used to speak their own language, which is older even than the Dravadian's".

This was claimed by the eminent Punjabi litterateur Dr. Satinder Singh Noor while delivering his keynote address in the inaugural session of the 2-day national seminar on "New Perspectives of Punjabi Language, Literature and Culture" organised by the Department of Punjabi at Kurukshetra University, India.

About 30 scholars of Punjabi language and literature are participating in this seminar from Punjab, Haryana, and Delhi.

Refuting the ongoing theory that Punjabi was an Indo-Aryan language, the Vice-Chairman of the Bhartiya Sahitya Academi, Professor Satinder Singh said that Punjabi was the oldest language of the world: it existed in one form or the other before the use of Tamil and even Sanskrit because it existed before the emergence and blooming of the most ancient of the world s civilizations.

He cited examples with the help of many prevalent words using phonetics and morphological terms.

About 2000 words were being studied and scrutinised by scholars of Tamil and Telgu languages and they also agreed to the foregoing conclusions to this effect, he disclosed.

Dr. Satinder Singh said Puanjabi is spoken by the Punjabis who now live in 160 countries all over the world. The diaspora is spreading this language abroad but intermingling of words with local languages has led to coining new words like globalikaran (globalization) and glocalikaran (localization of globalization) with the change in their thoughts and practice of this language.

Quoting a report by UNESCO, the Punjabi scholar said that Punjabi has hundreds of thousands of words both spoken and written and therefore it can never die like other languages of the world; not even hybridity of words can harm it.

The Punjabi scholars residing abroad were earlier creating Punjabi literature in prose and verse, but lately they have started writing in other languages as it earned them name and fame both, but it is causing harm to the Punjabi literature abroad.

He said that though Punjabi was spreading all over the world in one way or the other, its sweetness is relished only where it is being practised in its purer form either in agriculture sector or in some parts of Punjab which the modern urbanites term as backwards.

Lt. General (Rtd.) Dr Devender Dayal Singh Sandhu, Vice-Chancellor of Kurukshetra University, said that the use of Punjabi language was increasing with the efforts of scholars and the state governments. Speaking as the chief guest, Dr . Devender Dayal Singh said that Haryana has made Punjabi its second language which has opened new vistas for its flourishing in new horizons right from schools to the universities as well as in government offices.

He assured all financial and other assistance for the promotion of the Punjabi language in the future.

Presiding over the inaugural function, the former Vice-Chancellor of Kurukshetra University, Professor Bhim Singh Dahiya emphasised the need for setting up a department of translation so that the best literature could reach the masses and the intelligentsia of the world. He said Rabinder Nath Tagore got the Noble Prize only when his Bengali lworks were translated into English and promoted by a W.B. Yeats. He also advocated setting up city universities to promote original thinking which IPunjabi youth possessed in abundance.

Professor Amarjeet Singh Kang, Director of the Seminar, said there was no threat to the popular Panjabi language from outside but the emerging pollution to our culture by the process of globalization is certainly a cause of worry for all of us to save the purity of the Punjabi language and culture.

We have to search newer ways to protect and promote this language and culture in the changing scenario. He expressed satisfaction that though the Punjabi youths mostly abroad or in the country's meroploitan centres were distracted by western culture, but some of the young scholars were emerging in Punjab these days with novel creations in Punjabi culture and literature.

http://sikhchic.com/...oldest_language

Sanskrit is alwys falsly calimed oldest language! The oldest is tamil - and from there Sanskrit etc. are from.

[chatanga]

Sanskrit is alwys falsly calimed oldest language! The oldest is tamil - and from there Sanskrit etc. are from.

A nice article. Can you tell me where Sanskrit began?

[HDSH]

Can you folks not go off topic for once?! Is it really that hard to open a new thread?

[kullykhalsa]

The "curse" of menstruating. Let me try explain a few things, you dont have to agree. The body has 10 orificies, 9 physical on the body and 1 in what we call our dasam dwar - the 10th gate.

Whatever comes from the other 9 are seen as breaking the sucham of the body, so you will see sewadars using hazooria if they need to touch their noses, eyes ears etc. If someone has a runny nose etc, it is better if they dont put themsleves in a position where they might affect suchamta.

Sorry to be crude, but if someone has loose motions and did a fart and followed through they would be sitting there dirty, how many of you would put yoursleves in this position?

The same is with menstruating, women do not know when the orifice is releasing blood, and as such it has been the tradition that when women are affected by this "curse" they dont get into places where suchamta is affected.

This is not just in Gurmat, it is a sankriti that has started from Satyug.

DisagreeYour comparing something like a runny nose to a period should we not do seva as men then as we could potentially need to urinate at any time?The concept is flawed, and very unfair on bibia. Waheguru gave them this cycle and it seems weird to demonize it as unclean/dirty