Beaming Facets of Sanskrit

BEAMING FACETS OF SANSKRIT

“This (i.e. Panini’s) grammar, which dates from somewhere round 350 to 250 BC, is one of the greatest monuments of human intelligence. It describes with the minutest detail, every inflection, derivation and composition, and every syntactic usage of its author’s speech. No other language, to this day, has been so perfectly described.

L. Bloomfield, Language : p.11

“The Romans…….did not know how to derive the stems of the word from a comparison of the various inflectional forms and Greeks in this respect were no wiser. But the Indian grammarians were never capable of floundering in such confusion. They derived the stem correctly from inflectional forms, the root from the several groups of the related words, they ascertained the laws of derivation and composition and so forth.”

Holger Pederson, The Discovery of Language, p. 22.3

“The technique of Panini (and his school) is of interest for those who are working towards an axiomation of grammar. In this respect Panini’s grammar represents a model that has no equal in antiquity”

L. Renon, Panini – Current Trends in Linguistics

“Sanskrit as the oldest Indo-European language with a great literature, has a unique importance even for the people of Indo-European speech outside India. It was the inspiration from Sanskrit which had led to the establishment of the Indo-European world,

and had brought in a new conception of history.

Sanskrit Commision’s report ………1956

“…….a knowledge of the common origins of our ways of thought is a desirable thing to have in a world which must unite or perish…………one might, on similar grounds, advocate the teaching of Sanskrit in all Indo-European...