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An appreciative evaluation by Dewan Bahadur SHL S RAMASWAMI SASTRICAL Retired District Judge, Madras I have perdsed with much pleasure and profit the book of Sanskrit poems entitled PADYA-PUSHPANJALT by MI V Subrewanga Iyer Principal Rameswaram Dev49- thanam Patasala Madurai 'That such a work should appear in 1950 15 itself proof of what Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru describes as the VITALITY AND PERSISTENCE OF SANSKRIT in his immortal work cotitted The Discovery ol Ida I am trung tlus appreciative cvaluation of these excellent and stignal forms on 26th January 1950 which is the day of the inauguration of the Indian Republic a fact which sytnLolital of the new Sprzat pervading these proeros as the Republic is symbolic of the new spirit peryacing tlıç Infe of India Tot centurtes past Sansint poetry has been merely the pouring of mental molted metal into old moulds Tradi- ttunal themes and conventional sentiments ru.cd the minds from generatioo tn generation The author of this work back Lroken new ground and expresses the variegated panoranu of modem Indian ble with a refreshing modernity al outlet without in any way achining Indian ideals or deſlating the etlucal and spieltal values of Indian thought and lực