Question

Understanding Skills
Read the following extract from Al Beruni's
work.
The first and foremost difference is the language.
Sanskrit is a language of enormous range, both
in words and in inflections. They call one and the
same thing by various names and unless one knows
the context in which the word is spoken... Some of
the sounds of consonants are neither identical nor
resemble the Arabic and Persian. And the Hindus
write their scientific books in metrics so that they can
be committed to memory and thus prevented from
corruption. This metrical form of literary composition
makes the study of Sanskrit particularly difficult.

(i) Why does Al Beruni find Sanskrit a difficult
language?

(i) Why does he say that Hindus compose
scientific work in metrics?

(iii) What does the above extract tell you
about Al Beruni?​

Answer 1

Answer:

same thing by various names and unless one knows

the context in which the word is spoken... Some of

the sounds of consonants are neither identical nor

resemble the Arabic and Persian.