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भारतीय साम्राज्य. [ भाग काय, पण अखिल जगानें, सदैव, आपली अत्यंत कृत- ज्ञताच दर्शविली पाहिजे. तथापि, प्रोफेसर रॉथला त्याचे इतके महत्व कोठें वाटते आहे ? त्यानें बिचाऱ्या साथ- णाचार्यास अगदी मागें ठेवून, आपलेंच घोडें पुढें ढकॅल्ले आहे; आणि त्या विद्वन्मुकुटमण्यास मूर्ख ठरवून, आपल्याच भोवती टेंभा पौजळला आहे. त्यानें असें प्रति- पादन केले आहे की, वेदाचा अर्थ युरोपस्थांस जितका चांगला आणि बरोबर समजतो, तितका सायणाचार्याला देखील समजला नाहीं. १. “But the assurance with which he implies that Sàyana was not capable of mastering ten or twenty passages which are at the command of Professor Roth, presupposes, indeed, in his readers a degree of imbecile credulity which is, no doubt, a happy condition of mind for those who rejoice in it, and perhaps that best fitted for reading assertions like these, but which may not be quite so universal as he seems to assume.” * * * – “In short, the great Mádhava, we are told, had not the proficiency of combining in his mind or otherwise those ten or twenty passages of his own Veda, which Professor Roth has the powerful advantage of bringing to gether by means of his little memoranda! " (Goldstucker on Panini P. P. 249--250). २. “We (says Roth) believe that a conscientious European exegete might understand much more correctly and thoroughly the sense of the Veda than Sayana." (Goldstucker on Panini. P. 254),