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We Indians are always fascinated by such stories but ourselves fail to realize the underlying significance. We are proud of our Aryabhatta, Nagarjuna, Chanakya, Brahmagupta, Shushruta but how many of us actually know what they wrote or what they accomplished? Had it not been the effort of the Arabs and Persians, much of their pioneering works would have faded into obscurity before 1st millennium CE. We nearly forgot the glory of our ancient past until Western scholars like William Jones, James Prinsep, Arthur Schopenhauer or Max Mueller took a renewed interest to know about ancient India. They accomplished so by the study of Sanskrit. It was due to the pioneering works of the Western scholars, that the great works in Sanskrit were restored. Sadly, this ignorance about our own heritage was not a recent trend. It is said that when Alexander the Great came to India, he was surprised by the fact that India in spite of being a great civilization had no properly recorded history. It is to be stressed that the initiative by the MHRD to introduce Sanskrit education in the IITs has nothing to do with the alleged saffronization of higher educational institutes. Sanskrit is the heritage