For all his studies in European culture and his Latin training, he surrendered to the charm of the freshly-developing Marathi language. “Like a jewel among pebbles,” he wrote, “like a sapphire among jewels, is the excellence of the Marathi tongue. Like the jasmine among blossoms, the musk among perfumes, the peacock among birds, the Zodiac among the stars, is Marathi among languages.”
