Dr. C. Rajendran, senior Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Calicut presently working as the Dean of Sanskrit Literature and Adjunct Faculty of the Department of Sanskrit Sahitya. Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit Kalady, is a universally accepted scholar and is the teacher of all of us for the last thirty or more years. He has written a number of books in English. Malayalım and of course in Sanskrit. His areas of interest are not in Sanskrit alone, but in world literature as a whole which is evidenced in all his writings.