This refers to the article, “Sanskrit-Buddhism: A saas-bahu equationIJ” (April 20) by Rajesh Singh. In Buddhist circles, opinion goes that Sanskrit was grammatically and structurally complicated for an average citizen. Hence, derivatives such as Hindi and Prakrit came to the fore. Assuming that the Buddha disliked Sanskrit because he didn’t like Vedic scriptures, is not correct; he merely discarded some aspects of it and kept others.