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NARAYAN PRASAD
SAMBODHI
Curator, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune, for his suggestion to write to the Editor, New Catalogus Catalogurum, University of Madras, in regard to the details of MSS on SKĀ. The author is also thankful to Dr. P. G. Lalye, who made available for reference a copy of the unpublished thesis of Dr. K. Neelakantham. Dr. Narayan Kansara, Ex-Director of Maharshi Academy of Vedie Sciences, Ahmedabad, deserves special thanks, who provided the required information on SKĀ through correspondence from time to time.
This paper is dedicated to late Mahāmahopādhyāya Pt. Yudhisthir Mīmāṁsak who has been a great inspiration to the author regarding svādhyāya (self-study) and who created interest in research on SKĀ, the result of which is the state-of-art in this field, presented for the first time, especially the details of MSS, which would be of grear help to the future researchers on SKĀ. ;'
Notes
1. "Samsār bhar mem kisi bhi itar prācin athva arvācin bhāṣā kā aisä pariskt
vyākaran aj tak nahīm banā" - Pt. Yudhisthir Mimāṁsak, Saṁskṛt Vyākaran-Śāstra kā Itihās, 4th edition, Ram Lall Kapoor Trust, Vol. I, 1984,
p. 192, lines 13-15 (in Hindi). 2. Commenting on Panini's extraordinary work and about one hundred and
fifty grammarians and annotators who followed in the footsteps of the great Father of Sanskrit grammar, Monier Williams (1819-1899) remarks
- “It cannot be wondered .... that the science of Sanskrit grammar should have been refined and elaborated by the Hindus to a degree wholly unknown in the other languages of the world”, A Practical Grammar of the Sanskrit Language, Third Edition, The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1864, p
xii, (Reprint The Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series. Vol. XXI, 1962). 3. “For no language of the past have we a record comparable to Pāṇini's
record of his mother-tongue, nor is it likely that any language spoken today will be so perfectly recorded.” – Review by Leonard Bloomfield of Bruno Liebich's "Konkordanz Panini-Candra”, Language : Journal of the
Linguistic Society of America, Vol. V, 1929, p. 274. 4. Commenting on the works of Pāņini and his successors T. Burrow remarks
- "The importance of the grammarians in the history of Sanskrit is unequalled anywhere in the world. Also the accuracy of their linguistic
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