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The Sanskrit Language:
an Overview
History and structure,
linguistic and philosophical representations,
uses and users
Translated from the French by
TK. Gopalan
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TRoten Cover illustration: Sanskrit manuscript of Yoga Vasistha Sara
Original title: Le Sanskrit
© Presses Universitaires de France, 1992
Coilection Que sais-je? n° 1416
© This edition: 2000
Indica Books
D 40/18 Godowlia
Varanasi - 221 001 (U.P.)
India
ISBN: 81-86569-17-0
Published with the assistance of
the Cultural Section of the Embassy of France in India
Acknowledgements ofthe Translator:
Lam grateful, among several friends, to Dr. V. Kameswari, and especially to
‘T.V. Vasudeva, of the Kuppuswamy Sastri Research Institute, Chennai, for
helping with the citations in Chapters | and 2, oT. Jayaraman of the
cemment Arts College, Mannargndi for exhaustively going through the it
tial draft ofthe translation and offering numerous eitical comments, to Pro-
fessor PS. Filiozat for eadingboth the intial and the subsequent drafts and
clearing my doubts and to Dominik Wujastyk ofthe Wellcome Institute for
the History of Medicine, London, for going through the final version with
meticulous care and suggesting a number of corrections, and for providing
‘an original translation ofthe passage from Caraka figuring in chapter 3.
‘TK.Gopalan
Printed in India by Rekha Printers Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi 110 020 CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter I. The Language
1. The history of the language
1. The Vedic language
2. Bvolution and preservation of Vedic.
The recitation of the Vedas
3. Panini, Katyayana, Pataijali
4, The stabilisation of Sanskrit
II. The structure of Sanskrit
1. The name of Sanskrit
2. The Paninian structures
3. The script
Chapter II. Representations of Sanskrit
and philosophy of speech
I. Sanskrit and other languages
IL The place given to Sanskrit
in the world and in society
IIL, Sanskrit and the transcended speech.
1, Sanskrit, the eternal word .
2. The transcended word
3, Sanskrit as a way to religious salvation
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