Page 14 - Appreciating Sanskrit

The Ancient and most magnificent, the

classical creations of the most perfect and

Sanskrit tongue both in wonderfully sufficient

quality and in body and literary instruments

abundance of developed by the human

excellence, in their mind, at once majestic

potent originality and and sweet and flexible,

force and beauty, in their strong and clearly-

substance and art and formed and full and

structure, in grandeur vibrant and subtle, and

and justice and charm of its quality and character

speech and in the height would be of itself a

and width of the reach of sufficient evidence of the

their spirit stand very character and quality of

evidently in the front the race whose mind it

rank among the world’s expressed and the

great literatures. The culture of which it was

language itself, as has the reflecting medium.

been universally (Sri Aurobindo, CWSA,

recognized by those 20, 314-315)

competent to form a

judgment, is one of the