Who created sanskrit?

Answer 1

This question though it makes sense in a very rational way, doesn't make sense in the way in which it came down. First it must be remebered that Sanskrit in a form called the Vedic Language is a language of the Scriptures. Hence a date cannot be fixed on this. If one takes the Rg Veda to be oldest Scripture taken to be about 10000 years old considering the existence of oral tradition for many centuries before even they were committed to writing, then the language must have existed for a few thousand years before that.

The current form of Sanskrit called the Classical Sanskrit which are used in the post-Vedic Age that must be about the time of Ramayana. This could be taken to be about 7000 years. There are quite a lot of disputant claims about the date of Ramayana itself. If Ramayana is pushed to antiquity upto 10000 years then we may be forced to push the date of the Vedas further back.

But then the problem is that History accepts dates based omn the availability of earliest written records. This is what Western Historians have used to date all the literature. One must take into account the powerful oral traditions in the land which is unseen elsewhere. Thus dating of Sanskrit must be done differently.

Now, the question who created Sanskrit is not all right - it could be rather applied to any language- as language does not have a single creator or a fixed date of creation. The movement form Vedic Language to Classical Sanskrit would have happened over centuries. So, also any other language. Dating could only be done for written records.

One could ask about who created a Grammar for the Sanskrit Language. That is a meaningful question. Though Panin's Grammar is the extant and complete Grammar of the language there have been many before Panini though only three inclusing Paninis are available as on date. There were supposed to have been 9 Grammarians before Panini. Panini's Grammar's date has been fixed as 500 BC.

Answer 2

Sanskrit is an ancient Indo-European language that evolved over time and has no single creator. It developed organically from an early form of Vedic Sanskrit used in ancient India. It has a rich literary tradition and is considered a sacred language in Hinduism and Buddhism.