२०२ भारतीय साम्राज्य. [ भाग त्या त्या देशाचे खरोखर अमूल्य अलंकारच होत, यांत बिलकुल संशय नाहीं. गोल्ड्स्टकरसारख्या सरळ आणि विद्वान पंडितास देखील, आम्हा भारतीयांच्या पौराण- त्वाविषयीं, तसेंच त्यांचें पांडित्य, विद्वत्ता, शास्त्र, आणि कला, इत्यादिकांविषयीं बहुत अभिमान वाटतो. व हिंदू १. “But whence was it that they ( European scholars ) were able to unfold to us the first secrets of ancient Hindu religion, of ancient Hindu philo- sophy and scientific researches ? It was through the aid of the commentaries, in the first rank of which stands that of Pantanjali; in the second, the works of those master minds, the most prominent of whom are Sänkara and Mädhava Säyana. Without the vast information these commentators have disclosed to us, -- with outtheir method of explaining the obscurest texts,--in one word without their scholarship, we sh- ould still stand at the outer-doors of Hindu antiquity." (Goldstucker on Panini. P. P. 241-242. ) २. “Still a Provocation of this kind alone would have as little induced me to take up my pen now as it did heretofore; but when I see the public told authoritatively, yet without any proof, that Sayana teaches that understandering of the Veda which was current in India no longer than a few centuries ago; — when I see that the most distin- guished and the most learned Hindu scholars and divines — the most valuable, and sometimes the only source of all our knowledge of ancient India पुढे चाल:
