Sanskrit Is India's Heritage. Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Sanskrit is the oldest language on earth.
Vedas, Upanishads, Epics and classics
Were in Sanskrit, a musical language,
A five thousand year old Indo-Aryan.

It gave birth to languages in the North.
It gave grafts to languages in the South.
It is the root of European languages.
It made India proud for its heritage.

Sanskrit is written in Devanagari. (script)
Except Tamil, all Indian languages
Are proud of sanskritization of words.
Sanskrit, a refined one, went desolate.

Every language spoken in India
And its neigbouring countries has got
Many words drawn from Sanskrit and reminds
Of Sanskrit as the child does its father.
21,07.2016