● २१० भारतीय साम्राज्य. [ भाग he most complete that ever was employed in arranging the elements of human speech. " (History of India. P. 282.) जर्मनी देशांत आजकाल संस्कृत भाषेचा अभ्यास विशेष जारीने सुरू असून, तो तिकडील गुणज्ञ लोक फा रच परिश्रम घेऊन करितात. त्यामुळे त्यांस आमच्या गीर्वाण भाषेचें खरें स्वरूप, व यथार्थ तत्व, हीं कलून आली आहेत. प्रोफेसर वेबर हे एक तद्देशस्थच शोधक आणि विद्वान् पंडित असून, ते पाणिनीच्या व्याकरणा- विषयीं असे लिहितात की:- - "And we at once pass into the magnificent edifice which bears the name of Panini as its archi- tect, and which " justly commands the wonder and admiration of every one who enters. Pánini's grammer is distinguished above all similar works of other countries, partly by its thoroughly exhaustive investigation of the roots of the language and the formation of words; partly by its sharp precision of expression, which indicates with an enigmatical succintness whether forms come under the same or different rules. This is rendered pos- sible by the employment of an algebraic terminology of arbitrary contrivance, the several parts of which stand to each other in the closest harmony, and whicb, by the very fact of its sufficing for all the
