Samskrita Bharati is an organisation working for Sanskrit revival. The "All-India Sanskrit Festival" (since 2002) holds composition contests. The 1991 Indian census reported 49,736 fluent speakers of Sanskrit. Sanskrit learning programmes also feature on the lists of most AIR broadcasting centres. The Mattur village in central Karnataka claims to have native speakers of Sanskrit among its population. Inhabitants of all castes learn Sanskrit starting in childhood and converse in the language. Even the local Muslims converse in Sanskrit. Historically, the village was given by king Krishnadevaraya of the Vijayanagara Empire to Vedic scholars and their families, while people in his kingdom spoke Kannada and Telugu. Another effort concentrates on preserving and passing along the oral tradition of the Vedas, www.shrivedabharathi.in is one such organisation based out of Hyderabad that has been digitising the Vedas by recording recitations of Vedic Pandits. COUNT 5
QSN1 What organization is trying to revive Sanskrit? ANS1 Samskrita Bharati QSN2 What kind of competitions does the All-India Sanskrit Festival have? ANS2 composition contests QSN3 How many speakers of Sanskrit were there by the 1991 census? ANS3 49,736 QSN4 Where in India is Sanskrit still spoken by the population? ANS4 Mattur village QSN5 Who originally gave Mattur village to Sanskrit scholars? ANS5 king Krishnadevaraya