Louis Renou on the Sanskrit Grammarians in L’Inde Classique, vol. II, beginning and end of par. 1519 (p. 86) on The origins (Les origines):<\/p>\n
If the work of P\u0101\u1e47ini, the oldest treatise on Sanskrit grammar that survived for us, probably predates the Vedic works on phonetics and etymology (para. 609), it nonetheless implies a whole development, of which the progress can be discovered all through Vedic literature.<\/p>\n
(Si l’ouvrage de P\u0101\u1e47ini, le plus ancien trait\u00e9 de grammaire sanskrite qui nous soit conserv\u00e9, est probablement ant\u00e9rieur aux ouvrages v\u00e9diques sur la phon\u00e9tique et l’\u00e9tymologie (par. 609), il n’en implique pas moins toute une \u00e9volution dont le progr\u00e8s se laisse d\u00e9celer \u00e0 travers la litt\u00e9rature v\u00e9dique.) <\/p>\n
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To adhere to Indian thought is first of all to think as a grammarian.<\/p>\n
(Adh\u00e9rer \u00e0 la pens\u00e9e indienne, c’est d’abord penser en grammairien.) <\/p>\n
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