 and wrote about how Sanskrit has come to this point.Observing the changes in the use of Sanskrit in 12th-century Kashmir, 16th-century Vijayanagara, and 17th-century Varanasi, Pollock argued that Sanskrit came to serve the purposes of "reinscription and restatement," while truly creative energies were directed elsewhere.According to an Indian-American author of severals books Rajiv Malhotra , Sheldon-Pollock came up with a novel idea of “Literarization” of the Sanskrit language that “"gets endowed with certain structures that make it an elite language of power over the masses".” Furthermore, in his book called “The Battle For Sanskrit” , Rajiv Malhotra criticizes Sheldon Pollock in making a deliberate attempt to remove the sacredness of the Sanskrit language and look at it from a narrow yet inferior lens and a biased point of view.