Sir William Jones. Who was
also a Sanskrit scholar, a grammarian, a poet repute, a translator, who
introduced Sanskrit classics to the western world, and founder of the Asiatic
Society of Bengal. Jones served the East India Company as a judge of the
Supreme Court in Calcutta from 1783 to 1794.
The Sanskrit language,”
he wrote, “whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure, more perfect
than Greek, more copious than Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either;
yet bearing to both of them a strong affinity, in roots of verbs and forms of
grammar.”
Courtesy: The Hindu dated 3rd March 2017.
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/visitor-who-turned-scholar/article17399549.ece
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/visitor-who-turned-scholar/article17399549.ece
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