NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court turned down a request to make Sanskrit the official language on Friday. For the "sake of publicity," a bench of Justices M.R. Shah and Krishna Murari decided not to give notice of the petition.
The court ruled that the matter fell under the purview of policy and called for constitutional modifications, which required extensive debate in Parliament not in the courtroom.
The petitioner's attorney referred to Sanskrit as a "mother language" that served as an inspiration for other tongues. He constantly cited the work of ancient language researcher Sir William Jones and the orientalist Sir William Jones in an effort to make his case.
The Bench pronounced, "We recognise that many languages have borrowed words from Sanskrit, but that does not mean that we can designate it to be a national language."
When the petitioner persisted in convincing the court that Sanskrit ought to be declared the national language at the very least through an executive order, the Bench at one point ordered him to speak a paragraph in the language. Finally, the lawsuit was dismissed by the court.
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