७६ भारतीय साम्राज्य. [ भाग वेबर असे ह्मणतात की, “ ज्यांची ह्मणून लेखी माहिती आपणास उपलब्ध आहे, त्या सर्वांत ही जुनाट आहे, व ती यथान्यायच आहे. " संस्कृत भाषा, संस्कृत विद्या, आणि ज्यांपासून ती उद्भवली ते आर्य लोक, यांविषयी काही काही पाश्चात्य फारच गौरवाने व अभिमानपूर्वक लिहितात. ज्यांचे आदिविचार वेदरूप दर्पणांत दृष्टीस पडतात, ज्यांनीं तत्वविवेचनांत आपले सर्व आयुष्य खर्च केले, जे धर्माच्या १ “ The literature of India passes generally for the mostancient literatures of which we possess written records, and justly so. ( History of Indian Literature P. 2 by Pro. A. Weber. ) "} २ “ The Aryans of India, the framers of the, most wonderful language the Sanskrit, the fellow- workers in the construction of our fundamental concepts, the fathers of the most natural of natural religions, the_makers of the most transparent of mythologies, the inventors of the most subtle philo- sophy, and the givers of the most elaborate laws.” ( What can India teach us. P. 15 By Max Muller.) “ And a study of Sanskrit literature has its own ●purpose; but what I feel convinced of, and hope to convince you of, is that Sanskrit literature, if studied only in the right spirit, is full of human interests, full of lessons which even Greek could never teach as, a subject worthy to occupy the leisure, and more than the leisure, of every Indian Civil Servant;"
