Election 161 years ago |! Boden Prof of Sanskrit at University of Oxford

In school curriculum – languages, we with curiosity heard of ‘Rama Shabdam’.  Shabda,  is the Sanskrit word for "speech sound” referring to an utterance in the sense of linguistic performance. the grammarian Katyayana stated that shabda ("speech") is eternal (nitya), as is artha "meaning", and that they share a mutual co-relation.   Sad, my acquaintance with ‘Sanskrit’ was too short lived !  .. .. BUT do you know or imagine the importance ‘Sanskrit’ was accorded by the Westerners !! – and the relevance to an election held this day, 161 years ago !