Make Sanskrit language of common man: Guv

Describing Sanskrit as one of the greatest and most scientific languages of the world, Uttarakhand Governor Aziz Qureshi today called for steps to re-established it internationally as a language spoken by common people.
"It is unfortunate that the language despite being the most scientific and one of the greatest languages of the world has become the property of a special section of scholars whereas it should be the language of the common people," he said releasing 'Shodh Pragya' - a bi-annual research journal brought out by Uttarakhand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya.
Asking University authorities to make a beginning in this direction from Uttarakhand by launching a campaign to take the language from the closed chambers of universities to the common man, he said the Vice Chancellor of the Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya should ensure that free of cost evening classes in Sanskrit are started in Haridwar.

He said the exercise can subsequently be extended to other districts.
Noting that many languages of the world either had their origin in Sanskrit or used derivatives from the ancient language, the Governor said 90 per cent of Indonesian population was Muslim and yet the Indonesian language had 40 per cent of its words from Sanskrit.