Tilak

[Madhav Deshpande]

Tilak was well versed in Sanskrit as is clear from his Giitaarahasya and
writings on Indian astronomy.  In the Giitaarahasya, he is engaged in a
serious debate with Zankara's Bhaa.sya.  He had extensively read Sanskrit
literature of different kinds.  I do not know of an independent Sanskrit
work by Tilak, but he composed a dedicatory verse in Sanskrit at the
beginning of his Giitaarahasya, which ends with the line:
        zriizaaya janataatmane
which nicely combines the dedication to God who is of the nature of the
people of India.  Best,
                                Madhav Deshpande

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Swaminathan Madhuresan wrote:

>  Did Tilak have knowledge of enough Sanskrit to publish writings
>  in it? or, he used Sanskrit as is used by politicos?
>
>  Regards,
>  SM
>
> --- Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at UMICH.EDU> wrote:
> > Tilak published the newspaper Kesari in Marathi, and Marhatta in English,
> > but nothing in Sanskrit.
> >                                                 Madhav Deshpande
> >
> > On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Vidyasankar Sundaresan wrote:
>
> > > In case you didn't know, Tilak published one newspaper in
> > > Marathi, and another in Sanskrit. [snip]
>
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