Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.s2.t3.15

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of *Sanskrit Grammar* was not difficult for him and became as important a scholarly text as Max Mueller’s original. The original English version was furnished by Chen Duxiu. When the first volume of the *Sanskrit Grammar* was completed, Zhang Taiyan and Liu Shipei separately wrote an introduction for him, while Chen Duxiu composed a poem to praise him, “start a millennium-old learning from today, and strive for the best to benefit the people. Excellent writing once existed, and then Siddham’s heavenly language disappeared. Here, “millennium-old learning” means Sanskrit study, and “heavenly language” refers to Sanskrit.