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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
recognized by those Sri Aurobindo,
CWSA, 20, 314-315
competent to form a
judgment, is one of the