A History Of Sanskrit Literature
Surendra Nath Dasgupta · Motilal Banarsidass
Sanskrit is indeed the language not only of Kavya of literature but of all the Indian sciences, and excepting the Pali of the Hinayana Buddhists and the Prakrit of the jains, it is the only language in which the last 2 or 3 thousand years, and it has united the culture of Indian and given it is synchronous form in spite of general differences of popular speech, racial and geographical, economical and other differences. It is the one ground that has made it possible to develop the idea of Hindu nationhood in which kinship of culture plays the most important part. Under the shadow of one Vedic religion there has indeed developed many subsidiary religions, Saiva, Vaisnava, Sakta, etc., and within each of these, there had been many sects and sub sects which have often emphasized the domestic quarrel, but in spite of it all there is a unity of religions among the Hindus, for the mother of all religious and secular culture had been Sanskrit.
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