Pancamrtam

Sanskrit is a very rich language with a large number of roots and primary and secondary derivatives. Because of this, it is easy to express accurately any idea in this tongue. Indeed our administrative and technical terms can be derived from Sanskrit. Before the integration of the princely states into the Indian Union there was at least one state, the state of Baroda, which successfully used Sanskrit words for administrative purposes.

The need for a knowledge of the classics has been recognized by modern educationists in the West, despite the emphasis laid there on science and social studies. The great mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead took great pains to plead for classical education in one of the chapters of his book, "The Aims of Education'. The Radhakrishnan Commission on University Education in India Quotes the following words from the book,' The Classical Tradition.'