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INTRODUCTION.
India can well be proud of its philosophy, its science of poetics and aesihteics and its grammar, the science of language. Philosophy as propounded by the Vedantic and the Jain Schools, intuitive as it is, has arrived at such ultimate principles which seem to anticipate the latest scientific thought, In the field of, poetics and aesthetics, the recent pronouncements on the fundamental nature of artistic creation seem to echo the tenets of our ancient science of poetics, when, for instance, Mrs. Susanne K. Langer arrived at the conclusion that what an artist creates is virtual emotive experience, Sanskrità scholars are reminded of their age-old theory of a which regards the function of att to be emotive. In the domain of linguistics, as a well-known modern linguist says,
"So far as our knowledge goes, the science of linguistics was founded or put on its present basis by one Panini in India several centuries before Christ. Its earliest form anticipated its most recent one.”
