Pāṇini citations

Panini est un grammairien de l'Inde antique né à Chalatura au Gandhara. Il est célèbre pour avoir formulé en 3 959 sutras, connues sous le nom d'Ashtadhyayi et également appelées Paniniya, les règles de morphologie, de syntaxe et de sémantique du sanskrit. L'Ashtadhyayi reste un ouvrage de référence sur la grammaire du sanskrit,. Wikipedia  

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Pāṇini: Citations en anglais

“Though its fame is much restricted by its specialized nature, there is no doubt that Panini's grammar is one of the greatest intellectual achievements of any ancient civilization, and the most detailed and scientific grammar composed before the 19th century in any part of the world.”

Professor A. L. Basham in: Daya Kishan Thussu Communicating India's Soft Power: Buddha to Bollywood https://books.google.co.in/books?id=Ab_QAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA47, Palgrave Macmillan, 24 October 2013, p. 47.

“English translation:
A lion took the dear life of Panini, author of the grammatical treatise.”

In Panchtantra quoted in: Maurice Winternitz, Moriz Winternitz History of Indian Literature http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ql0BmInD1c4C&pg=PA462, Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1 January 1985, p. 462.

“The medicine of Sushruta is considerably older than the ninth century; and the grammar of Panini probably precedes Christianity.”

Horace Hayman Wilson in: The Vishńu Puráńa: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition https://books.google.co.in/books?id=rpVTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR38, J. Murray, 1840, p. 38.

“We pass at once into the magnificent edifice which bears the name of Panini as its architect and which justly commands the wonder and admiration of everyone who enters, and which, by the very fact of its sufficing for all the phenomenon which language presents, bespeaks at once the marvelous ingenuity of its inventor and his profound penetration of the entire material of the language.”

Albrecht Weber in: Progress in Drug Research / Fortschritte der Arzneimittelforschung / Progrès des Recherches Pharmaceutiques http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/268/bfm%253A978-3-0348-7078-8%252F1.pdf?auth66=1419562349_15c515850884730be93b3e4cadfc447d&ext=.pdf, springer.com