This book has rare distinction of being both an introductory book and a new ground-breaking study.It is an Introductary book because thereader getr an accurate overview of the language, and it is alos a ground-breaking study because Filliozat's approach harmonizes two different and complementary stands that often have been at war: the Western historical and comparative approach and the indigenous pandita tradition. Sanskrit is described here from these two points of view:what the natiove speakers knew and felt about their language,and comparative quest. (IND. BOOKS)