Sanskrit : Our Mother Tounge

Sanskrit literature is exceptionally rich both in form and content, and one is amazed to have a look at the diverse forms that originated in the early hours of human civilization and also at the analysis made of these diversities by literary theoreticians. Sanskrit literary theory has described Rasa as the center of gravity of Poetic Art, and in introducing the nature of this element has explained in as total fragmented beauty, the experience of which generates delight, because Beauty and Bless conjointly constitute part and parcel of Absolute, the Infinite, even the partial reflection of which inducts special charm to a specimen of Art and makes its pleasurable and enjoyable.
The sacred literature of India, inferior to none in variety of extent, is superior to many in nobility of thought, in sanctity of spirit and in generality of comprehension. In beauty or proximity, it can vie with any other literature ancient and modern despite the various impediments to the steady development of the language, despite the successive disturbances, internal and external, which India had to encounter ever since the dawn of history, she has successfully held up to the world her archaic literary map, which meager outline itself favorably compares with the literature of any other nation of the globe. The beginnings of her civilization are yet in obscenity Relatively to any other language of the ancient world, the antiquity of Sanskrit has an unquestioned priority “Yet such is the marvelous continuity” says Max Muller “between the past and the present of India, that in spite of repeated social convulsions, religious reforms and foreign invasions, Sanskrit may be said to be still the only language that is spoken over the whole extent of the vast country.
So says Mr. Winternitz “Sanskrit is not a ‘dead’ language even today. There are still at the present day a number of Sanskrit periodicals in India, and topics of the day are discussed in Sanskrit pamphlets. Also, the Mahabharata is still today rears aloud publicity. To this very day poetry is still composed and works written in Sanskrit, and it is language in which Indian scholars converse upon scientific questions. Sanskrit at the least plays the same part in India still, as Latin in the Middle Ages in Europe, or as Hebrew with the Jews”

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