It is just an ancient language, now almost dead! Protected and held supremely precious in a time when public communication in the street was yet to be codified and myriads of spoken languages were still evolving. Post invasion, people must have settled down and natural assimilative factories must have led some from both the native and invading ones forging ties, blending together, finding common ground. What best way to do so if not language. I reckon language is another medium of equaliser. When everyone could understand, interpret and then respond in the same way what is being told then cycle of communication will complete. Everyone would be on same page. A semblance of rationality will prevail. But of course the invading Arayans didnt want that. They are different than the natives. They had already decimated or banished the inferior natives. The remaining ones must be kept down and use as serving hands. Assimilating both culture must be stopped which is why they needed to retain their superior position. They needed Sanskrit to remain exclusive thus meant only for few men in a strictly patriarchal set up. They needed to bestow divinity on the language itself. Like the inferior class, women were to be kept away from learning the divine songs of Vedas too. What if a learned woman is prefers a native man and share the divine knowledge with them... The claim to glorified divinity and superiority will crash like a house of card! Hence the exclusivity must be retained. Heres a paragraph from the article... The verses sung by the Aryan tribes during their settlement in North India and development of their ritual sacrifices in a royal set up were later collected into four Vedas. After their settlement across the North, they set up a social structure based on Varna and made the oppression of fellow human beings as the very foundation of Hinduism through the Smritis and Shastras, particularly the Manu Smriti. The Shudhras and women had no right to listen or speak Sanskrit, nor they had the right to study Vedas as dictated by Manu: “He (the twice born) must never read (the Vedas) in the presence of the Shudhras.”—Chapter 4, verse 99, “Women have no business with the text of the Veda.”—Chapter-9, Verse 18, “If the Shudhra intentionally listens for committing to memory the Veda, then his ears should be filled with (molten) lead and lac; if he utters the Veda, then his tongue should be cut off; if he has mastered the Veda his body should be cut to pieces.”—Chapter 13, Verse4.
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