In parallel, he dedicated much time to improving himself, for example he began to study Sanskrit, and to work on other smaller projects.

Students may study Sanskrit, which is offered as a foreign language.

In his student years he also studied classical Sanskrit.

He left home at a young age and studied Sanskrit in Varanasi for four years.

At 15 he began to study Sanskrit and Arabic on his own.

He could be writing a book, for God's sake, or studying Sanskrit.

He has studied Sanskrit and Nātyasāstra in the traditional way.

There he read biographies, studied history, astronomy, modern science, and Sanskrit.

In 1850 he went to Germany, and for three years studied Sanskrit.

This inspired him to study Sanskrit in order to gain a better understanding of the text, as the available translation was quite poor.