In the early 60s of the 20th century, the Indian Sanskrit scholar Durga Prasad Shastri visited Russia. After two weeks, he said to the translator (N. Guseva): Stop translating! I understand what you are saying. You are speaking here some corrupted form of the Sanskrit! (No need to translate! I understand what you are saying. You are speaking a modified form of Sanskrit!). Returning to India, he published an article on the closeness of Russian and Sanskrit.
“If I was asked which two languages of the world are most similar to each other, I would answer without any hesitation: Russian and Sanskrit. And not because some words … are similar … Common words can be found in Latin, German, Sanskrit, Persian and Russian … It is surprising that our two languages have similar word structure, style and syntax. Let's add even more similarity of grammar rules. This arouses deep curiosity among everyone who is familiar with linguistics …
“When I was in Moscow, at the hotel they gave me the keys to room 234 and said“dwesti tridsat chetire”. In bewilderment, I could not understand whether I was standing in front of a nice girl in Moscow, or whether I was in Benares or Ujjain somewhere two thousand years ago. In Sanskrit 234 will be "dwishata tridasha chatwari". Is there a greater similarity possible? It is unlikely that there are two more different languages that have preserved the ancient heritage - such a close pronunciation - to the present day.
“I happened to visit the village of Kachalovo, about 25 km from Moscow, and to be invited to dinner with a Russian peasant family. An elderly woman introduced me to a young couple, saying in Russian “On moy seen i ona moya snokha” (He is my son and she is my daughter-in-law).
“How I wish that Panini, the great Indian grammarist who lived about 2600 years ago, could be here with me and hear the language of his time, so wonderfully preserved with all the smallest subtleties!
“The Russian word seen (son) is son in English and sooni in Sanskrit … The Russian word snokha is the Sanskrit snukha, which can be pronounced in the same way as in Russian. The relationship between a son and a son's wife is also described by similar words in two languages …
“Here is another Russian expression: To vash dom, etot nash dom (That is your home, this is our home). In Sanskrit: Tat vas dham, etat nas dham … Young languages of the Indo-European group, such as English, French, German and even Hindi, directly descending to Sanskrit, must use the verb is, without which the above sentence cannot exist in any of these languages. Only Russian and Sanskrit do without the linking verb is, while remaining completely correct both grammatically and ideomatically. The word is itself is similar to est in Russian and asti in Sanskrit. And even more than that, Russian estestvo and Sanskrit astitva mean "existence" in both languages … Not only the syntax and word order are similar, the very expressiveness and spirit are preserved in these languages in an unchanged initial form …
“In European and Indian languages there are no such means of preserving ancient linguistic systems as in Russian. The time has come to intensify the study of the two largest branches of the Indo-European family and to open some dark chapters of ancient history for the benefit of all peoples."
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The call of this scientist inspired few researchers to penetrate deeper into the ancient connection of the Russian North, the ancestral home of the Indo-Europeans, with the modern cultures of Europe and Asia.
Russian language - Sanskrit (transcription in Russian letters)
And
hell (b) - hell (eat, swallow)
artel - arati (root, "rtha" - "order")
B
pampering, childishness - balatva (childhood)
white, light - balaksha to
shine - bhlas
god (merciful) - bhaga
goddess, virgin - devi, devik vigorous - bhadra
fear - bhaya, bhias
to be afraid - bhi, bhyas
abuse
- bhrat - rana, bhratra
brotherhood - bhratrtva
to take - bhr to
dawn - bhrej
eyebrow - bhruva to
wake up, awaken - budh
gurgle, dive, drown - bul
buran - bhurana bus
(fog) - beads to
be - bhu
being - bhavania, bhavya
In
vaga (weight, weight) - waha (carrying cargo)
shaft - shaft
roller - wali
vapa (paint, decoration) - vapus (beauty)
cook - var (water)
brews (cattle corral) - vara (fence)
you - you
know, introduction (knowledge) - view, ved, veda, vedana
vedun - vedin
widow - vidhava
spring - vasanta
all (village) - vish
all - vishva
wind (blowing) - vata (r), vayu hanging loop -
broadcasting post (speech) - vachana to
broadcast - vacha to
blow - to
twirl - vrt, jew's harp
water - udan, var, drive beer, lead - wad
to carry (by cart) - wah
wolf - vrka
wave, excitement - valana
hair - shaft
question (ask) - prashna, pracchh
gate, turn - vartana
rider - sadin
always - garden
to fall out - set
up avapad, remove - vishtha
knit with a loop - vesht blather
(speak) - vak
To
guess - bastard (to speak at will) to
gallop, to vomit (V. Dal) - gal (pour out)
gat (way) - gati (walking)
to say, sound - hlas
drive, beat - ghna
dialect - gavi
mountain gir, giri gir, giri
burning, ghrni flame ghrini
burn ghr ghri
throat gala gala
rob, grab, rake - hornbeam
mane, scruff - mane
thunderstorm, thunder - garja
There is no word for “beef” in Sanskrit, but a possible way of adding
this Russian word should be seen in two Sanskrit words:
“gavya” - “taken from a cow” and “adana” - “eating (eating)”.
chest - ghd
gnaw, devour - grae
gnawing, jaws - grasana
guk, call - ghu ghul
- gula
gus - hansa
D
give, give - yes, give give
- let's
press, compel - dabh
tribute, gift - the
giver is given - dada, give
two, two, two - two, move, two
door - dvar
brother-in-law - devr
virgin - devi
tar - dagdha (melted by heat)
day - dina
wood, log - gift
to keep - dhr
ten - dashan
miracle (sky, radiance) - diva
wondrous - divya
share (part) - gave a
house - I will give
to tear, to tear - dr
to tear, to run away -
wood wood, wooden -
another dravya - druha to
blow (to suck) - a
bad spirit, bad - to
blow (to go, strive) - to
blow (to blow up) - dhu
smoke - dhuma
hole - dara
hole - dryka
E
food (eating) is hell, adana
is, to eat is hell
F
sting - jal (tip)
wife - jani
alive - jiva
life (belly) - jivatva
live - jiv
(from) living, old - jita
W
Dawn (vaunted) - Jar
call - hwa, hve
anger, potion - Hel
call, rank - hwan
land - Hema
winter - Hema
winter, snow - himya
know - jnana
knowledge - jnana
noble (know) - dzhnata
connoisseur - Janaka
zorit, ruin - hr
And
go - and
yoke, yoke - south
silt - silt (soil) to
destroy, kill - a corpse
so - itas
To the
tub - kanduka (capacity) to
show (say) - katkh
how, which one, who to
whine - kan
karuna (bird of sorrow) - karuna (sorrowful)
touch, feel - chup
cough - kas
wedge, number - keel
when - kada
goat - Mack, Bucca
stake, pole - Khila
Copanca pond - kupaka
clumsy - kharva
braid (hair) - cache
which - Qatar's
purse - kosha
mount - klrip
fold - kraath
farmer - krshaka
cry - krka (throat)
blood - Kravis
bloody - Craven
crumbling - krsh
twisted - kruncha
(o) round - krukta
(so) crumbling - crushing
hook, bend - crunch
cover, cut - crunch (to do)
where - ku, kutas
fist - fist (five together)
sandpiper -
kulika kurlykat (crane) - chickens (kurankura)
curly - kurcha (curl)
kutok - kuta
heap - heap (convex)
L to
get along, play -
fondle, hug -
easy las -
sculpt laghu, stick - lime
modeling -
lie down, lie down - whether to
lick - dashing
sticky - liptaka
only (a little) - leash, lesha
catching, picking up -
babbling lava, babbling - paws
to love - lubkh to
beat (damage) - a loupe
beam, shine - hand to
cling - whether to
lalat, undead - lal
M
mastak - mastaka (head)
mother, mother, mom - matr, mata, ma
mga - magna (dying out)
honey - madhu
change - me to
die, to die - to
measure - to
fade, to darken - mrch
dead - a
month is dead - mas
fur, fleece -
stirring stirrer - stirring mekshana, stirring - stirring
mix, mixing - mishr
sack (leather) - mashaka
mlet - mlai
opinion - manas
think, believe - man
wet - mock
muzzle, shape (head) - murdkhan, murti murdhan, murti
wet - muck
mouse - fly
cheat, steal - mush
meat - mass
crush, grind - math
N
naked - nagna
sky - nabha
heaven - nabhasa
no - ned
no - no
low beads - nishka low
- nihina
low - nikun, perish - nikun (complete)
thread - nitya
nishknut, shut up -
new nikship - nava
novina (moon) - navina
us, our - us
nail - nagha
nose - nasa
night - nakta
well - well
Oh
both - ubha
fire - agni
sheep - avika
oko -
aksha ost - asthi
from - ud, ut
give - udda
to separate - udal to
clear his throat -
open duck - open utkr, opened - utkr to
sail away, move away - utchal
P
to fall - pad
fell (burning) -
daddy - daddy (defender)
steam (other) -
mouth pair - pash
pekota, heat - paka
foam - pyeong
first - purva (original)
dog - dog (hungry, eating)
oven - pack
baking - pachana
write - write
drink, nourish - pi, pa
pity - pita
swimming - swimming
to splash - plush
to swim, to swim -
floating (raft) -
full of
crooks - purna great mother - great mother -
pleasant, sweet - priya
awaken (sya) - prabudh
bend - prajna
recognize - prajna
prostrate - prastr, str
space - prastara
heat up, warm up - pratap
stretch - pratan
sprinkle prish prish
against - prati
chill out - prahlad
spin - prani
path - patha
traveler - pathika
swell, grow - push
R
to rejoice - to
dispel the cold, to whirl - a whirlwind
wound - a
wounded lie - a vranin
to grow - pox
roar - rav
roar - rav
rod, give birth - rodas (earth)
dew, juice - race
growth - rohat to
cut -
ore (red, red) - rodhra ruin
- ruh
sob - ore
prowl - pb
With
s, so - to
plant, sit - the garden
itself, the most - the
swara itself (scream, noise) - the swara to
sparkle - swar
light, whiteness - shvit (suite)
light, white - shveta (light)
your own - swat
property - matchmaker
brother-in-law - svaka
father-in-law, mother-in-law - svakr (to assimilate, to find)
heart - hard
seven (1 l.p.) - asmi
seed, grain - hirana
fortitude - sila (strength)
storyteller - kahala to
bore, mix -
merge heaps, eject - sridge
glorification - shravaniya
rumors (glory) - shrava
listen, hear - sru
mortal - march
death - death, marana
laugh - media
snow - snehya (slippery)
daughter-in-law - snusha
cathedral, meeting - sabha
meeting (general opinion) -
salty samvachana, bitter -
soaking salt, pouring out - sich, sik
sokha - sphya (stick-coral) to
sleep - swap (in Hindi - "sonna" to
sprinkle -
sleeping asleep - supta
stan, parking - sthana
(do) to catch, to ascend - stigh
pillar - stambha, stabh
stand - stha
essence, truth - satyam to
dry - shush, sush
drying - shushka, drying
son - sunu, suna
T
ta, this - that
tata, tyatya - tata
such - such
to carry, (y) to drag - tas
those, you - te
that - tad, tat
that same - tatsama
to create - to
warm the creature, to warm - tap
warmth - tapa to
rub - tinder
flow, move - tick
then - tada
torment, exhaust - there is
thin - tanuka
torit (road) - tharv
grass -
tremble
three, third - three, three three times - tris
tro - traias
three - trika
shake, tremble - tras
tight - tunga
tuz, beat - tudj
turit, drive - tour
you - tva
darkness - tama
pull - tan
We
run away, run away - the core
die - mrt
into account, be considered - cheat
tissue ducks - uta
X
walk - move to
cool, refresh - cold
chill, freshness - cool
B
slurp - cham (chew)
chomp (pig) - chushchusha
chalit (if.. from..) - Getting
chara, enchanting - goblet
cup - chashaka
four - chatvara
four - Catur
repair, commit - chi
eccentric fool - a miracle
a bit, a little bit - chut (small fry)
Sh
hut, shelter - shala
helluva
lot - shibham shiknut - kshi (calm down)
shilo - shira (tip) to
sew, © shivavat - siv
brother-in-law - shvashurya
E
eva - eva
eka, eky - eka
this, this - etad, etat
I am a
reality, a phenomenon - Java (appearance of the moon)
lamb, lamb - Yajna (sacrifice)
Yama (end) - Yama
eating, eating - Ardent adana
- Jara (lover)
in Russian and Sanskrit "s" and "sh" can be interchanged