OPINIONS.
"I wish I could procure the other four works of yours in
the domain respectively of pure literature, astronomy, and
history."
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R. D. Ranade Esq., Asstt. to the Professor of Sanskrit,
Deccan College, Poona, writes to the author :-" As I went
through the book, I was greatly struck by the new mould, in
which the sutras of Panini have been once again entirely recast.
The new arrangement of the sutras is entirely your own, and it
clearly shows what time and trouble it must have cost you.
The number of the original sutras has been happily minimised,
and the sutras themselves have been most lucidly explained.
The elegant introduction which you have appended to the book
clearly shows that the Sanskrit Language, in the hands of
scholars like yourself, need no longer bear the stigma of a "dead"
language. One feels indeed that it has the entire freshness of
life restored to it once again. Though I suppose that a little
bit of injustice has been done to the name of Patanjali in
the Introduction, I am entirely at one with you in holding
that a new method like your own is necessary, in order that
Sanskrit Grammar may be adapted to present-day require-
ments. Your book, I am confident, will not only be useful as an
introduction to the higher works on Grammar like the Paribha-
shendusekhara and the Mahabhashya itself, but will also be
sufficient, and more than sufficient, for introducing a beginner in
Sanskrit, whether Indian or European, to Sanskrit literature
in general. Those who have taken the trouble of studying
Sanskrit Grammar by means of the Kaumudi and the Tattva-
bodhini, are sure to feel that a lot of their trouble would have
been saved if they had your book by them at the commence-
It is so simple, so lucid, and so
ment of their studies.
entirely sufficient."
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