"I feel thence competent to express an opinion as to Pandit Nityanand’s great merits as a scholar.

"On my recommendation, a number of distinguished Sanskritists of Europe and America who visited Kashmir, after I turned myself to another field of oriental research on my Central Asian explorations, were glad to avail themselves of Pandit Nityanand’s help as a teacher and collaborator and formed a very high opinion of his scholarship.

"In the same way Sir George Grierson,O. M., K. C. I. E., the greatest authority on Indian languages, was glad to utilize Pandit Nityanand’s scholarly knowledge of Kashmiri when preparing his great work, the Dictionary of Kashmiri Language published by the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal. Sir George Grierson just as my self would have been very glad to see Pandit Nityanand’s merits as a Sanskrit scholar recognized long ago by an appropriate title.” - Sir Aurel Stein.

(in a D.O .Note dated July 14, 1938, to Diwan Swami Gopal Iyengar, the Prime Minister, Jammu 7 Kashmir State.) NS Mss, Nityanand Shastri Library Collection.