Examples of wide scope
Post-1947
Popular and award-winning novels encompassing history (Eg. Bhairappa’s sArtha) and science fiction (bhuvanam AnIta) have been published.
Pre-1947
- James R. Ballantyne wrote Iṅglaṇḍīya-bhāṣā-vyākaraṇam
The Pandit (काशीविद्यासुधानिधिः), a Monthly Journal (1866 to 1920), of the Benares College, devoted to Sanskrit Literature carried the following:
- translations into Sanskrit of John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- Bishop Berkeley’s A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
- Vitthala Shastri’s Sanskrit commentary on Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum
Misconception examples
In post-colonial India, no single Brahmin has written any meaningful modern book in Sanskrit.
- Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd, 2023