१४वा ] व्याकरणशास्त्र. २११ phenomena which the language presents, bespeaks at once the marvellous ingenuity of its inventor, and his profound penetration of the entire material of the language." (History of Indian Literature. P. 216.) आमच्या संस्कृत व्याकरणशास्त्राविषयीं प्रोफेसर मोक्ष- मुलर हे असे लिहितात कीं:- “The achievements of the Brahmins in gram- matical analysis, which date from six centuries before Christ, are still unsurpassed by any nation. " (D. N. Speeches and Essays. P. 5.) - ज्या काली शब्दव्युत्पत्ति आणि भाषातत्व, यासंबंधाने पृथ्वीवरील यच्यावत् राष्ट्र केवल अज्ञानांधकारांत होतीं, अशा वेळी, ह्मणजे सुमारे २२५० वर्षांपूर्वी, आमचें भाषाशास्त्र अगदी पूर्णत्वास जाऊन पोहोंचलें होतें; आणि आमची व्याकरणमीमांसा ही शास्त्रीय विवेच नाच्या अत्युच्च शिखराप्रत जाऊन ठेपली होती यावि- षयी डाक्तर हंटर असें ह्मणतात की:- - “The science of Language, indeed, had been reduced in India to fundamental principles at a time when the grammarions of the West still treated it on the basis of accidental resemblances; and modern philology dates from the study of Sanskrit by Enropean scholars. Panini was the architect of sanskrit grammar; but a long succs- sion of grammarions must have laboured before
