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Our Sanskrit friend handed his manuscript to his Pandit copyists, 

 and then there were three ! I have little doubt that there was now 

 a plentiful crop of various readings for collation which in footnotes 

 would give an edition quite a critical appearance. 



The remedy for this deplorable state of things appears to me to 

 be in the first place the nomination of a few trained European 

 scholars to Sanskrit chairs in each presidency to insure the spread 

 and continuity of scientific methods of teaching and research in 

 India. In the second place, a committee of experts might be ap- 

 pointed to examine the whole question of the teaching of Sanskrit 

 in Indian schools and colleges, and to make recommendations with 

 a view to securing an adequate curriculum and the publication of 

 suitable text-books in connection with it. I believe that by such 

 means Sanskrit, the classical language of the Hindus, could be made 

 a potent agency not only in stimulating and training the intellectual 

 faculties, but also, by enabling the Hindus to understand their own 

 civilization historically, in spreading that enlightenment which will 

 be the surest means of delivering the Indian people from the bondage 

 of caste which has held them enthralled for more than 2000 years. 

 Before the advance of such knowledge the mass of irrational prejudice 

 which so cruelly divides class from class must gradually disappear, as 

 the mists of night melt away before the rising sun. Sanskrit learning 

 might thus be made to contribute to that elevation of the human 

 race which is the ultimate aim of all the arts and sciences repre- 

 sented and coordinated at this great and unique Congress. 



