Sanskrit villages

Bajaj is trying to showcase the mileage of their Bikes. So they are
coming with a series of ads that say how much India can be seen with 1
Litre of Petrol with their bikes.

Today's ad featured a Sanskrit speaking village where people "still
communicate" in Sanskrit. They claim with 1 Ltr of petrol, people can go
to this village from Mysore. The Ad shows villagers warning the biker,
in Sanskrit, about a road-block ahead that the biker doesn't understand,
and realizes after hitting the roadblock (a fallen tree).

I'm happy to see some mainstream coverage like this for our language. I
hope it results in some interest and few more enthusiasts.

 

The village is Mattur (also spelt as Mathur, Matthur etc) on the banks
of river Tunga in Shimoga District of Karnataka State.
This has been written about in almost all newspapers from time to time.

It seems there is another village, with same quality of affinity to
samskrutham in Rajgarh District of Madhya Pradesh, named Jhiri.

More details can be had here:
http://sevadarshan.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=33

 

knr
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