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how and where did srila prabhupada learnt sanskrit?

Posted by PRASHANTA ARYAL on August 8, 2017 at 10:19am in Our Previous Acharyas

hare krishna.

srila prabhupada studied in college, runs his family by working in pharmacy but i didnt heard srila prabhupada that he learnt sanskrit from any sanskrit school. please help me solve my confusion about how did srila prabhupada learnt sanskrit and from where.

yours servant,

prashanta.

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  • Aniruddha Dasa October 19, 2019 at 5:07am
    Hare Krishna

    In school. In those days Sanskrit was mandatory until Matriculation (10th Grade).

    Thank You
  • Kai Prabhu October 18, 2019 at 8:54am
    Well, considering that Srila Prabhupada was from the spiritual world one might say that it was his natural tongue! ;P Hare Krsna!
  • Yoel G. Yera Mora February 21, 2019 at 5:27pm

    It say Prabhupada himself in an interview

    Prof. Gombrich: Yes. But did you yourself study Sanskrit at Vṛndāvana or...?

    Prabhupāda: No. We had studied Sanskrit in school, colleges. In our time, Sanskrit was compulsory. In our days. Nowadays, I don't think so...

    Indian man: I, I also had compulsory up to...

    Prabhupāda: Sanskrit compulsory, and additional there was Sanskrit. So I took both, compulsory and additional.

    Prof. Gombrich: I see.

    Prabhupāda: Up to my I.A., I regularly studied Sanskrit, and in my B.A., I gave up Sanskrit. I read history. (laughs) No. Not in B.A. B.A., my combination was economics and philosophy. In I.A., I.A. was intermediate. I.A. I had history and Sanskrit.

    (Interview at Macmillan with various English Reporters and Professor Gombrich), 730912IV-LONDON - September 12, 1973 )

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