Sanskrit language in comparison with Greet and Lathin

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.

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