CANADA-SANSKRIT 2LST

Sanskrit has an unbroken literary tradition of at least
three thousand years. As the lingua franca of India’s
cultural growth and the principal vehicle of its thought,
Sanskrit has a unique position in Indian identity, Haksar
added.
A number of students were of the view that Sanskrit may
be considered a so-called dead language in India, and said:
"For Canadians, to learn Sanskrit is a challenge."
Sanskrit is the "mother" of the so-called "Indo-Aryan"
languages, a branch of Indo-European (to which also English
and most other European languages belong), they added. PTI