yes. Studying bits of things is OK, but one of the best things about university is getting obsessively fascinated with some little corner. That's the only way you move beyond just paraphrasing what you've read in textbooks, and get to contribute original research.
One of the big problems with academic Sanskrit (outside India) is that people mostly come to it via some other route - generally, Latin and Greek, but sometimes theology. That means they end up with a fairly warped perspective. The advantage of starting on Sanskrit as an undergraduate is that you get the chance to study your subject in itself, not as a spin-off.
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Date: 2006-10-17 12:15 pm (UTC)One of the big problems with academic Sanskrit (outside India) is that people mostly come to it via some other route - generally, Latin and Greek, but sometimes theology. That means they end up with a fairly warped perspective. The advantage of starting on Sanskrit as an undergraduate is that you get the chance to study your subject in itself, not as a spin-off.