Sanskrit Tattoo Designs: Let Your Skin Breathe Life Into This Ancient Language

Tattoos cycle in and out of favor with society. At one time, large magnificent tattoos like tribal tattoos, dragons and tigers were popular. This time around, smaller more subtle tattoo art is being popularized by Hollywood stars - Sanskrit tattoo designs, Celtic cross tattoos and dreamcatcher tattoos.

For women, lower back tattoos in Sanskrit make for an eye-catching and interesting conversation piece. It is certainly an interesting change from the usual hearts or rose tattoos you usually see there.

Because Sanskrit was originally used for religious purposes, it has a well-regulated grammar and precise meaning. You won't find the same ambiguous interpretations as in English, the deliberately multi-meaninged Chinese sentences, or the deliberately ambiguous Japanese. This makes it ideal if you want to inscribe a lucky charm or prayer as a tattoo. You don't have to worry about receiving the wrong wish.

Sanskrit tattoos make ideal in memory tattoo designs to remember your lovers. Just translate your girlfriend or boyfriend's name into Sanskrit and get it tattooed. If you should ever break up and get a new lover, there is no embarrassing evidence left behind.

Are you a history buff? Do you like old things with a rich history? Then you will love Sanskrit and tattoos in Sanskrit. This is an ancient language, dated back to 1500 BC, possibly even older. Some linguists consider it the mother of all languages. Sir William Jones, the father of Indo-European studies, believes that it shares a common root language with ancient Greek and Latin.

One of the oldest surviving religious texts in the world is the Rig Veda, in Sanskrit. The Ramayana, in Sanskrit, inspired one thousand years of epic poetry in India and South East Asia. The two longest epic poems in the world are the Mahabharata and Bagavadgita, also in Sanskrit.

Sanskrit can be written in several different scripts, but the most widely accepted is the Devanagara system. In this script, the alphabets are horizontal, with a bar on top and curves at the bottom. You can easily link up all the characters and turn it into an armband tattoo. If you want a more elaborate tattoo, the rich mythos associated with Sanskrit should easily inspire you to come up with something you are happy with.

Sanskrit tattoo designs can be as simple as you like, or as complex as a tapestry. It is entirely dependent on your own creativity.