१४वा ] महाभारत. २०३ भगीरथ प्रयत्न आणि त्यांचें बुद्धिप्रागल्भ्य, त्यांचें मति- वैभव आणि निरुपम वैदग्ध्य, इत्यादिकांविषयीं ते वारं- वार स्तुति करितात. मागील पृष्ठावरून पुढे चालू. are scorned in theory, mutilated in print, and, as a consequence, set aside in the interpretation of Vaidik texts; when I see that the most ancient readers of Hindu antiquity are interpreted to the Europeon public in such a manner as to cease to be that which they are; -when a clique of Sans- kritists of this description vapours about giving us the sense of the Veda as it existed at the com-- mencement of Hindu antiquity;-when I see that the very forms of the language are falsified, and that it is made a principle to slur the grammar of Panini, and to ridicule those who lay stress on it;- when I see that one of the highest grammatical authorities of India is schooled for a "want of prac- tice and skill", while this censure is passed with. out even an understanding of the work to which it refers when I see that they who emphatically claim the epithet of "veracious" make statements which are the very reverse of truth;-and when I consider that this method of studying Sanskrit philology is pursued by those whose words apparently derive weight and influence from the professorial position they hold; and when, moreover, depart- ing from rule and precedent, I see the journal of a distinguished Society-I fully hope through an पुढे चालू.
