India has a large cultural tradition comprising her literature, philosophy and other lore starting from the age-old days of the Rgveda. The post-Vedic language in which the first poetic spark was flashed in the earliest epic, viz., the Ramayana by the primordial poet (adikavi) Valmiki, was the classical Sanskrit language. It started its onward march with this great epic (mahakavyam) followed by another great and more voluminous epic viz., the Mahabharata, by Vedavyasa. The Sanskrit language gave birth to a long and rich literary tradition of legendary literature, the Puranas. Simultaneously, a great enlightening tradition of philosophical speculations and other technical literature like architecture, painting and sculpture, law and jurisprudence, grammatical literature and literary criticism developed and continued - all in the classical Sanskrit language.
As we have stated in our Mission statement, the most important mission of Sreekrishnapuram V.T. Bhattathiripad College is to “propagate value education based on Indian tradition” and it is imperative that learning of this classical language is the only way of doing that. The Department of Sanskrit, Sreekrishnapuram V.T. Bhattathiripad College, is as old as the College itself having come into existence in 1982, the year the College came into being. The College was having only Pre degree as course study at that time and Sanskrit was taught as a second language, later in 1991 when the College was allotted an undergraduate programme the first affiliated degree course was Sanskrit. And the department became a full-fledged one. The Department of Sanskrit provides students with an opportunity to develop competence in Sanskrit through which, the literature, the religious and philosophical traditions, the aesthetic and artistic traditions, and the moral and social traditions of India could be studied.