Table Of ContentA Reader on the Sanskrit Grammarians
Studies in 1. A Reader on the Sansk
Linguistics J. F. Staal, editor
edited by
Samuel
Jay
Keyser
A Reader on the Sanskrit Grammarians
Edited by J. F. Staal
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A reader on the Sanskrit grammarians.
Bibliography: p.
I. Sanskrit philology—Collections. 2. Scholars, Sanskrit—Collections.
I. Title.
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anantaparam kila sabdasastram
svalpam tathàyur bahavas ca vighnäh/
säram tato grähyam apäsya phalgu
hamsair yathä ksJram ivämbumadhyätH
Boundless Indeed is the science of language,
but life is short and obstacles are numerous.
Hence take what is good and leave what is worthless,
as geese take milk from the midst of water.
Preface xi
Notes on the Frontispiece xvi
Note on Sanskrit Transliteration xviii
The Sanskrit Alphabet xix
Abbreviations xx
Table of the Sanskrit Grammarians xxiv
1. Hsüan Tsang (602-664) 4
A. Records of the Western Countries (Seventh Century) 6
B. Hwui Li : The Life of Hsüan Tsang (Seventh Century) 7
Early
Accounts
2. I Tsing (634-713) 11
1
The Method of Learning in the West (691-692) 12
3. Fa Tsang (643-712) 18
Account of Exploring the Mysteries of the Avatamsaka Sütra
(Seventh Century) 19
4. Abü Raihánal-Bírüni (973-1048) 20
An Accurate Description of All Categories of Hindu Thought
(1030) 22
5. Täranätha (born 1573) 23
A. Geschichte des Buddhismus in Indien (1608): I 24
B. Geschichtedes Buddhismus in Indien (1608): II 24
2 6. Jean François Pons (1698-1752) 30
Richesse et énergie de la langue Samskret, et comment et par
qui elle a été réduite en Grammaire (1740) 31
The 7. Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765-1837) 33
Foundations
of Western On the Sanskrit and Prácrít Languages (1803) 35
Scholarship
27
3
8. August Wilhelm von Schlegel (1767-1845) 49
A. Ueber den gegenwärtigen Zustand der indischen Ph ilologie
(1819) 51
The
B. Réflexions sur l'étude des langues asiatiques (1832) 52
Romantic
Period
C. Controversy with H. H. Wilson 57
47
9. Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) 59
A. Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues
(1836) : I 60
B. Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues
(1836): II 61
4 10. RamkrishnaGopal Bhandarkar (1837-1925) 70
A. Review of Goldstücker's Pön/n/ (1864,1877) 72
B. On the Date of Patañjali and the King in Whose Reign He
The Lived (1872) 78
Golden
Days C. Äcärya, the Friend of the Student, and the Relations between
the Three Äcär/as (1876) 81
65
D. Development of Language and of Sanskrit, First Wilson
Lecture (1883) 87
E. Relations between Sanskrit, Pali, the Präkrts, and the Modern
Vernaculars, Seventh Wilson Lecture (1883) 94
11. Franz Kiel horn (1840-1908) 102
A. Der Grammatiker Pänini (1885) 103
B. The Authorities on Grammar Quoted in the Mahäbhäsya
(1887) 106
C. The Text of Pänini's Sütras, as Given in the Käsikä-Vrtti,
Compared with the Text Known to Kätyäyanaand Patañjali
(1887) 115
D. Some Devices of Indian Grammarians (1887) 123
5
12. William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894) 138
A. The Study of Hindu Grammar and the Study of Sanskrit
(1884) 142
The
B. Franz Kielhorn : Book Notice of Whitney's Roots, Verb-forms
Skeptics
and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language (1886) 155
and Their
Critics
13. Bruno Liebich (1862-1939) 158
135 A. Prüfung der Argumente Prof. Whitney's (1891) 159
l. William Dwight Whitney: On Recent Studies in Hindu
Grammar (1893) 165
14. Otto Boehtüngk (1815-1904) 185
Whitney's letzte Angriffe auf Pänini (1893) 186
15. Georg Bühler (1837-1898) 193
The Roots of the Dhatupatha Not Found in Literature
(1894) 194
6
16. Bernhard Geiger (1881-1964) 207
Mahabhasya zu P. VI, 4, 22 und 132 nebst Kaiyata's Kommentar
(1909) ' 209
The
Transition
205
7
17. Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) 264
On Some Rules of Pänini (1927) 266
18. Barend Faddegon (1874-1955) 273
The
Modern
The Mnemotechnics of Pänini's Grammar I : The Siva-Sütra
Period
(1929) 275
261
19. Kshitish Chandra Chatterji (1896-1961) 286
The Critics of Sanskrit Grammar (1934) 287
20. Paul Thieme (born 1905) 298
A. Bhäsyazu värttika 5 zu Pänini 1.1.9 und seine einheimischen
Erklärer (1935) 299*
B. On the Identity ofthe Värttikakära (1937-1938) 332
21. Pierre Boudon 357
Une Application du raisonnement par l'absurde dans l'inter-
prétation de Pänini (les jnäpakasiddhoparibhäsä) (1938) 358
22. K. A. Subramania Iyer (born 1896) 392
The Point of View ofthe Vaiyäkaranas (1948) 393
23. John Brough (born 1917) 401
A. Theories of General Linguistics in the Sanskrit Grammarians
(1951) 402
B. Some Indian Theories of Meaning (1953) 414
24. YutakaOjihara (born 1923) 424
Jäti 'genus' et deux définitions pré-patañjaliennes (1967) 425
25. Louis Renou (1896-1966) 432
A. Les connexions entre le rituel et lagrammaire en sanskrit
(1941-1942) 435
B. Grammaire et Védanta (1957) 470
C. Grammaire et poétique en sanskrit (1961) 478
D. La théorie des temps du verbe d'après les grammairiens
sanskrits (1960) 500
Bibliography 526
Index of Names 539
Index of Sanskrit Terms 544
Index of Sutras 550
