Sanskrit scholars (Books)

Expressions researched:
"Sanskrit great scholar" |"Sanskrit scholarship" |"sanskrit scholar" |"sanskrit scholars" |"scholar in Parsi and Sanskrit" |"scholar in Sanskrit" |"scholar in Urdu, Farsi, Sanskrit" |"scholar of the Sanskrit" |"scholars in Sanskrit" |"scholars of Sanskrit" |"scholars, in Sanskrit" |"scholars, not only in Sanskrit"

SB Canto 1

SB 1.10.20, Purport:

Anything sung in the praise of the Lord is Śruti-mantra. There are songs of Ṭhākura Narottama dāsa, one of the ācāryas in the Gauḍīya-sampradāya, composed in simple Bengali language. But Ṭhākura Viśvanātha Cakravartī, another very learned ācārya of the same sampradāya, has approved the songs by Ṭhākura Narottama dāsa to be as good as Vedic mantras. And this is so because of the subject matter. The language is immaterial, but the subject matter is important. The ladies, who were all absorbed in the thought and actions of the Lord, developed the consciousness of Vedic wisdom by the grace of the Lord. And therefore although such ladies might not have been very learned scholars in Sanskrit or otherwise, still whatever they spoke was more attractive than the Vedic hymns. The Vedic hymns in the Upaniṣads are sometimes indirectly directed to the Supreme Lord. But the talks of the ladies were directly spoken of the Lord, and thus they were more pleasing to the heart. The ladies' talks appeared to be more valuable than the learned brāhmaṇas' benedictions.