Page 7 - Appreciating Sanskrit

Sanskrit ought still to have a future as a language of the

learned and it will not be a good day for India when the

ancient tongue ceases entirely to be written or spoken. But if

it is to survive, it must get rid of the curse of the heavy

pedantic style contracted by it in its decline with the

lumbering impossible compounds and the overweight of hair-

splitting erudition.

(Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, 1:612-613)