Science in Sanskrit

    Elephant Taxonomy Salutations to Lord Ganesha, because in this blog I will be naming the taxa of elephants both alive and extinct. The cool things about elephants is that they were not always the giant creatures with a hand for a nose. They started off small but evolved to their current state. Even more remarkable was that their taxa were found even in northern Eurasia and the Americas until humans came on the scene and wiped them out.  The Elephants belong to the order Proboscidea, which literally means "having a trunk", even though the earliest members of this order had no trunk. Therefore. a more neutral name will be chosen. I propose गज​ , or elephant (without any reference to their trunks).     Now before I continue, I want to name the clade formed by Deinotheriidae and Elephantiformes, because these set of elephants have an actual trunk  proper . Therefore this clade will be called with the famous Sanskrit word:  हस्तिन् . Then the suborder...

 General Sanskrit Animal Names This blog post is not going to too deep, rather it is going to assign Sanskrit names to common animals without going too much into taxonomy. This is merely to provide a framework for when we do coin more specific taxonomic names later on. The way this works is if there is a specific species of a generic animal group, say Indian carp of the carp family, then the specifici Sanskrit word for the species becomes the generic name. To specify the specific Indian species, we add the word "Indian" ( भारतीय​ ). I will also actively borrow from other languages if I can't find a Sanskrit name for the bird. Other times I will make up a name.  Dr.Raghu Vira has done a great job in coining Sanskrit terms for Zoology and for other STEM disciplins, and I may have unknowlingly derived from him. However, I want to improve upon his works by either being more simple, more accurate, or reducing ambiguity. For example, he renders "lemur" as "night ...

When I first started this, I thought I was the first to coin science terms in Sanskrit. Well, the first to do it systematically as there were already coined words on the SpokenSanskrit dictionary.  It turns out that they come from a famous modern Sanskrit scholar Dr. Raghu Vira.  Dr. Raghu Vira has done extensive on coining technical terms in Sanskrit, many of which I have unknowlingly used or derived from. For example, the suffixes I gave for "ite", "ate", "ide" before were of his work, though at the time I didn't know that, I simply thought theyy were SpokeSanskrit's own coinings.  I do differ from him on some things though, such as shying away from using abbreviative suffixes. However, his basic word choice behind a chemistry term is something I will keep. One such is the word for Oxygen , which I rendered as  प्राणजन (प्राण्य​-) as it is conducive to respiration and life. However, Raghu Vira gave a more tenchant word that can be better made int...

  Miscelleneous Chemicals in Sanskrit This is another part in a series of blog posts where I coin some chemical names in Sanskrit. In this blog, some commonly known chemicals like Acetone, Oxalate, etc. The idea is to move away from English words in Indian langauges, while not sacrificing unity. However, I do recomend trying to translate these words into vernacular languages as much as possible, because ultimately we want people to understand science and not get tripped up by jargon. Now in my previous blog on Cellular Respiration, I have coined some of these words on the fly.  Acids Here is what I have named so far:  Acetate:  चुक्रीय Citrate:  नैम्बूकीय Succinate: धूनकीय Malate:  सेवफलीय Fumerate:  वर्मकण्टाकीय Oxalate:  लोलिकीय Oxaloacetate: लौलिकिचुक्रीय Lactate:  क्षीरीय Tartate:  द्राक्षिकीय Pyruvate:  उपद्राक्षिकीय Now technically, I can use name the acids by the functional groups and how many carbons they have, in many cases...

  Cellular Respiration in Sanskrit Cellular Respiration in most cells is when cells take glucose and break it down to get energy, which is stored as ATP. The process is complicated, but can be broken down into 4 parts: Glycolysis, Piruvate Oxidation, Citric Acid Cycle, and Oxadative Phosphoralization (Electron Transport Chain and Proton Pump and ATP Synthase.  Now words like Electron Transport Chain have already been rendered in India languages, except for the electron part, where we should use the word विद्युत्कण​. So I will name stuff like NADH or FADH2 and stuff, and any important enzymes.  Right off the bat I am going to coin a word for ATP. The full name is Adenosine Triphosphate, but I am not going to coin a word for this yet because I want to wait awhile before I try to a coin a word first for "Adenosine". So for the time being, I will call ATP  as "Energy Carrying Particle":  शक्तिधरकण or शक्तिवाहकण . Thus, ADP , one phosphate less, which is produced aft...