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Why Sanskrit tattoo designs? Why not Hebrew or Arabic tattoo designs? Or tattoos in other old languages? Right now, the only competitor to Sanskrit is Chinese/Japanese words used in tattoos.
So why is Sanskrit so popular in tattoo designs? Partly due to the whims and vagaries of fashion, and partly because it looks elegant. Consider the flowing curves joined by horizontal lines at the top. This makes them natural for tattoo designs. Armband tattoos, even tribal tattoos can be designed from Sanskrit words.
Compared to Sanskrit, Chinese/Japanese words tend to look blocky. They just do not flow as well. Mind you, they can represent very complex ideas in very few words. Ancient Chinese and Japanese aristocrats created beautiful and complex poems with just a few words. The most witty of them could create poems with more than one meaning. Unfortunately, all this richness of ideas is lost in the modern world today, where almost no one has the necessary depth of literary and artistic education to appreciate poetic tattoos inked in Chinese/Japanese.
It is no wonder that Sanskrit tattoo designs beat out their Chinese/Japanese counterparts, especially in this part of the world - they just look too darned good!
How Do Indian Religious Authorities View Sanskrit Tattoo Designs?
Like practitioners of other major religions, Hindus look at the human body as a creation of God which should not be defaced with tattoos and piercings. And definitely not using holy scripts.
But while the holy man condemns such mistreatment of the human body, the society around him often has different ideas. Even in India, the home of Sanskrit, piercings in the form of ear rings and nose studs are common, especially for women. While Sanskrit tattoo designs are not widely flaunted, they are present. Rules have even appeared on how these tattoos should be maintained.
For the modern Hindu who wants to sport a Sanskrit tattoo, the area he chooses to place it must be stripped of hair. This area of flesh must never be touched by dirt.
How Does The Public view Sanskrit tattoo designs?
Well, in India, tattoos inked in Sanskrit are becoming more widely accepted. You can now see people with one or two religious symbols inked as a tattoo on their flesh. The most popular of the tattoo images is the Om symbol.
Fortunately, the rest of us are not in India. So we are not subject to the same strict set of rules regarding tattoo placement as the Hindus.
A Sanskrit tattoo design quoting one of the stanzas from the Mahabharata or Bagavadgita epics sure looks very impressive. If you understand the real meaning of your tattoo, it can help to inspire you when you are striving to overcome some obstacles in your life.
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An Introduction to Japanese Kanji
Written Japanese is one of the most interesting, but perhaps most challenging aspects of the language to learn. The 26 letter Latin alphabet is of no use in learning to read and write Japanese as the language uses a completely different character set. Japanese does not use the 26 letter alphabet that we are familiar with, it has three "alphabets" of its own: Hiragana, Katakana, and Japanese Kanji. The first two, Hiragana and Katakana, are called Kana and they each consist of 46 characters. The third set of Japanese characters is a very large set of symbols called Kanji.
At least 5000 different Kanji symbols exist, but the exact number is unknown. Japanese Kanji was actually adopted from the Chinese over 2000 years ago. Much of the Kanji were changed from the Chinese predecessors and over the years many were dropped from common usage. In an effort to make things a bit easier, the Japanese government pared the list down to 1945 symbols that became the essential Kanji. The Kana as well as the list of 1945 Kanji characters need to be mastered to be considered proficient in reading and writing Japanese.
Unlike the Kana which are single syllables, each Kanji represents whole words or parts of words. Japanese Kanji are picture-like in design and many of them represent the words that they actually look like. For example, the Kanji symbol for ‘two' is two horizontal lines, the Kanji symbol for ‘tree' looks very much like a tree. Learning the Kanji that look just like the word they stand for is a good start, but unfortunately they are not all that easy.
When learning Japanese Kanji, one very important learning tool is that the Kanji can be written out "long hand" with the Hiragana syllables. If someone can read Japanese, they can figure out almost any word that is written with Hiragana so if you don't know the Kanji you can still communicate with Hiragana. Another aspect that can help the learning process is that many Kanji build on, or contain other Kanji symbols which make it easier to expand your vocabulary.
Learning Kanji is like any other language learning in that practice and repetition are the key to mastery. One big advantage that today's language students have is the wide variety of materials and programs available for studying Kanji. If you are committed to spending the time to practice, learning Japanese Kanji is a very rewarding challenge.
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Andrew Bartlett is head writer for Japanese Language Now, which provides free resources and articles about learning the Japanese language, including how to write Japanese characters.
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