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12 Works of Pandit Guru Datta Vidyarthi
"Noma cha dhatujamah Nirukte Vyakarane Shakatasya cha tokam.
Naigama rurhi bhavam hi susadhu."
1)
which means:
Etymologically speaking, there are three classes of words, the
yaugika,
the
rurhi
and the
yoga-rurhi.
But the authors of the
Niruktas,
Yaska and others; and Shakatayana, among the grammarians, believe
all the words to be derived from
dhatus,
that is, believe them to be
yaugikas
and
yoga-rurhis,
and Panini and others believe them to be
rurhis
also. But all the
Rishis
and
Munis,
ancient authors and
commentators, without exception, regard Vedic terms to be
yaugikas
and
yoga-rurhis
only; and the
laukika
terms to be
rurhis
also.
The above is clear and definite statement of the Mahabhashya
to the effect that the Vedic terms are all
yaugikas.
It is not difficult to
prove by numerous and long quotations from Nirukta, Sangraha and
other older writings, that all of them agree as to the nature of the Vedic
terms.
Without going, then, into the details of this subject, it may be
assumed, that the Vedic writers of older epochs do not agree with those
of modem times.
It is a strange thing to find our modern professors of Sanskrit,
well-versed philologists, and professed antiquarians so forcibly
asserting the value of the "Antiquarian Method," and yet blundering
at the very outset of this momentous question.
After the remarks we have made, it is not surprising to find that
our modem scholars should think of finding mythological data of the
Vedas, or, of having come across the facts of ruder bronze age, or
golden
age,
in that book of barbaric hymns.
Note by the Editor (Dr. Ram Prakash)
This book was dedicated by the learned author to Swami Dayanand in
the following words:
DEDICATED
TO THE MEMORY OF
THE ONLY VEDIC SCHOLAR
OF HIS
TIME,
SWAMI DAYANANDA SARASWATI,
BY HIS SINCERE AND DEVOTED
ADMIRER, THE AUTHOR
LAHORE : 12 FEB. '88. GURU DATTA VIDYARTHI