
Once sir William Johns was Kolkata’s judge. He was fond of study
and learning new languages since childhood. When he came to India he wanted to
learn Sanskrit but nobody agreed to teach him.
One day a priest kept some conditions and
decided to teach him Sanskrit. The condition was that there should be two
chairs and one table in the class room. The class room should be cleaned every
day.
He should leave eating meat. He should
make arrangements of the mat of priest. In the beginning Sir Johns had some
problems he knew some Hindi words only and did not knew a single words of
English. But in few days the priest saw sir William’s hard work, care and interest
and felt very happy. After the hard work of one year he became intelligent in
Sanskrit. He translated the very famous Sanskrit play ‘ Abhigyan Shakuntalam’
to English.