Has Sanskrit been completely deciphered?

Question

Has Sanskrit been completely deciphered?

Answer 1

Well, one thing for sure along with many other things it has been mostly deciphered.

Answer 2

It is largely known, being related to Hindi (the forerunner of Hindi) and other Indo European languages.  But we have to be careful of linguistic change so because a word means something in Hindi that does not mean it meant exactly the same thing in Sanskrit.

I do not specialize in these languages but I have experience in Near Eastern Language Decipherment.

The method one would use is to look at words in context in Sanskrit (Vedas, etc...) and see what fits and compare those forms with related forms in Near Eastern languages, to uncover if there were any borrowing, and other outgroup comparisons could be made.  If any new possibilities arise in translation then you must compare with previous translations which are more consistent with Hindi and see which makes better sense.

I am simply offering a method of how to check.  I am not taking a position on how well the language is known.  Though scholars believe it to be well known.  I have no exact opinion on that.

Based on other work in ancient language decipherment I do believe that Sanskrit is derived from Latin and Greek and is not as old as is thought.  If documents such as Vedas are supposed to be much older than 2,000 years then I believe they were translated from a previous language into Sanskrit.  This belief of mine is not upheld by any other scholar that I know of.

I specialize in the morphology of ancient languages. (particularly Ancient Egyptian and Ancient Hebrew).