Talk:Sanātan Dharma

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I've started the article and a lot more relevant stuff can be added here. I am a bit surprised it didn't exist already given how important this is. I've hewed pretty closely to whatever I could unambiguously reference and tried to present a balanced view. --Hunnjazal (talk) 04:28, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Ok, sanatanin seems to be properly formed Sanskrit, deriving from sanatana as yogin does from yoga. But it's not in the dictionaries, so I presume we must state that it is "Neo-Sanskrit", i.e. a possible Sanskrit word that was only coined in modern times (unless I am missing something). De facto, it is of course a Sanskritizing Hindi word.

The earliest use I found is that of Gandhi 1921, which is no doubt the origin of the word's popularity and current meaning, but of course it is possible that it was in use even before Gandhi. I would like to know if it was influenced by the term sanatana dharma (which apparently popped up in the late 19th century) or if it developed independently. At first I thougt I found a medieval precedent in Sanskrit usage, when I googled Sānātanī as mentioned by Udayana, but it turns out that this Sānātanī  (note the vrddhi) is just a given name of an author mentioned by Udayana, so we can sort of confirm that it is a possible Sanskrit word, even if it is just recorded as a proper noun, and in the long grade (but perhaps that's a patronymic, so we are to assume that there was one Sanātanī, father or ancestor of the author mentioned by Udayana; all of this has of course nothing to do with the modern term). --dab (𒁳) 11:45, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
 * For real, if we go depth, you will find the use of this term to be older, if not, then still the tradition would had been around for years(thousands of). So my opinion is, that this subject indeed deserves a separate page. Bladesmulti (talk) 14:16, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

POV
An editor (User:Radhika Prabh) has made a series of edits to this page which in my opinion are fairly non-neutral. I'd revert but there's been some effort here and I'd like to know what other people think. --Richard Yin (talk) 18:08, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Considering the level of non-neutrality and the fact that sourced content was removed for no apparent reason I've decided to go ahead and revert. --Richard Yin (talk) 18:10, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Sourcing
It's great that quotes have been provided for sources that are offline etc. The problem is, they almost always seem not to support the entirety of the statements we make. I've got the horrible feeling that there is a lot of original research in this thing. - Sitush (talk) 01:22, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

NPOV issues
The following line inserted in this article appears to violate NPOV:
 * Sanātanī (सनातनी) is a term used describe Hindu movements that adhere to ancient science which was sustainable holistic and co existing way of life.

Grammatical errors aside, the bolded part is very obviously biased in favor of Sanātanī sects. The same edit that brought us that line also brought us an unnecessary comment about how the word "Hinduism" has a Persian etymology. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PKMNLives (talk • contribs) 21:04, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

P.S.: I forgot to tell y'all that I fixed the article so that the portions I had mentioned have been fixed. --PKMNLives (talk) 21:06, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

Sanatana Dharma
Sanatana Dharma is not as limited to one culture or religion like it is mentioned here, it has a broadly high perception than just confined it to hinduism only !! ~ Rk 20:18, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Please share a reference to reliable sources on this. Thanks. --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 18:39, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

Yes, that's wright. Anand Kumar Shastri (talk) 08:43, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Sanatana Dharma page
Currently both "Sanatini" and "Sanatana Dharma" are being defined in the lead in separate paragraphs, the first topic with two supporting sections and the second topic with one supporting section, where the entire article is focused on "Sanatini". Normally you would see each of those defining paragraphs and their supporting section(s) on their own article page. For organization sake, I suggest moving "Sanatana Dharma" to its own article page so that the religion and its adherents are separately represented; similar to Hinduism with its Hindus, Christianity with its Christians, etc. Also, shouldn't "Sanatini" be renamed to "Sanatinis" to signify multiple adherent groups, similar to "Hindus" and "Christians"?

Another option would be to change the title of this page to "Sanatana Dharma" (the religion) and speak about its adherents in sections. It would be similar to the Vaishnavism religion page with its adherents spoken about in the Traditions section. Introducing the religion (Sanatana Dharma) first before the adherents and their varying beliefs would improve the flow of the article too. Jroberson108 (talk) 12:09, 18 November 2020 (UTC)


 * I've moved the Sanātanī content. Joshua Jonathan  - Let's talk!  19:35, 5 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the move. I read through it and everything looks great except the bottom of the "Etymology" section that appears to be chopped off. The section ends with "generating two corresponding types:". Jroberson108 (talk) 16:19, 10 July 2021 (UTC)


 * please improve where possible; I only sorted out the stuff. Joshua Jonathan  - Let's talk!  17:28, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

Spelling change
This article should be named Sanātana dharma and not Sanatan "dhrama". Current spelling is so wrong! Naveen Ramanathan (talk) 18:59, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it's a drama, isn't it? I've moved the Sanatan Dharma content to Sanātana Dharma - the original page. Joshua Jonathan  - Let's talk!  19:21, 5 July 2021 (UTC)