| Like any other fashion fad, tattoos come and go. | | | | girlfriend why you have someone else's name |
| Today, the time for tattoos has come again. The | | | | tattooed on your buttocks. |
| sleeve tattoos in tribal designs of yester-year is out | | | | One of the major religions in the world, Hinduism, |
| of fashion, relegated to punks and rebels. Fashionable | | | | uses Sanskrit for its religious texts. Another major |
| tattoos today are more subtle and spiritual, like | | | | religion, Buddhism, also has religious texts in Sanskrit |
| Sanskrit tattoo designs. | | | | (Although it mostly uses Pali). If you want to |
| Sanskrit is the origin of many modern languages in | | | | commemorate some wonderful event or miracle in |
| South Asia, East Asia and South East Asia. According | | | | your life, why not do it using Sanskrit tattoo designs. |
| to Sir William Jones, the noted 18th century | | | | Of course, if you are Christian, using Latin in your "in |
| philologist, Sanskrit, ancient Greek and Latin all share a | | | | memory" tattoo design is perfectly fine too. |
| common root. Sanskrit script is horizontal in nature, | | | | The oldest surviving Hindu religious text is the Rig |
| with a bar on top and many curved edges. It is | | | | Veda, written in Sanskrit, dated to 1500 BC. Two |
| elegant and perfect for artistic rendering. You can | | | | other great Hindu epics exist - the Ramayana and |
| have a single word like "Om" (often interpreted as | | | | Mahabharata. Sanskrit tattoo designs using some of |
| universal peace in modern spiritual writings) in lower | | | | the magnificent verses from these ancient writings |
| back tattoos, or a motto (like "Satyameva Jayate" - | | | | would make a great conversation piece. So would |
| "Truth alone triumphs") in an armband tattoos. | | | | using some of the beautiful "sutra" Buddhist verses, |
| Do you have someone you would like to remember | | | | written in Pali or Sanskrit. Tattoos like these are ideal |
| forever? Translate his or her name into Sanskrit and | | | | for someone more spiritually inclined. |
| have it inked into your "in memory" tattoo design. It | | | | Sanskrit tattoo designs make for a beautiful |
| is more unique than using our everyday Roman | | | | alternative to other popular tattoo images like the |
| alphabet, and you do not have to make any | | | | celtic cross or flower tattoos. |
| awkward explanations to your future boyfriend or | | | | |