Context: 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.

Question: What organization is trying to revive Sanskrit?
Answer: Samskrita Bharati

Question: What kind of competitions does the All-India Sanskrit Festival have?
Answer: composition contests

Question: How many speakers of Sanskrit were there by the 1991 census?
Answer: 49,736

Question: Where in India is Sanskrit still spoken by the population?
Answer: Mattur village

Question: Who originally gave Mattur village to Sanskrit scholars?
Answer: king Krishnadevaraya

Question: What organization is working to get rid of the use of the Sanskrit language?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: How many fluent Sanskrit speakers were reported in 2002?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What village claims that it no longer has native Sanskrit speakers?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Which local population refuses to use Sanskrit as a language?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Which village did Vedic scholars give to king Krishnadevaraya?
Answer: Unanswerable