Pāṇini - wikipedia Pāṇini This article is about an ancient Sanskrit scholar from Indian subcontinent. For other uses, see Panini ( disambiguation ). Pāṇini ( Sanskrit ; IPA : ( paːɳin̪i ) ) fl. 4th century BCE Notable work Aṣṭādhyāyī ( Classical Sanskrit ) Region Northwest Indian subcontinent Main interests Grammar, Linguistics A 17th - century birch bark manuscript of Pāṇini 's grammar treatise from Kashmir Panini ( IAST Pāṇini, fl. 4th century BCE ) is the name of an ancient Sanskrit philologist, grammarian, and a revered scholar in Hinduism. Considered the father of Indian linguistics, Pāṇini likely lived in the northwest Indian subcontinent during the early Mahajanapada era. Pāṇini is known for his text Ashtadhyayi, a sutra - style treatise on Sanskrit grammar, 3,959 `` verses '' or rules on linguistics, syntax and semantics in `` eight chapters '' which is the foundational text of the Vyākaraṇa branch of the Vedanga, the auxiliary scholarly disciplines of the Vedic period. His aphoristic text attracted numerous bhashya ( commentaries ), of which Patanjali 's Mahābhāṣya is the most famous in Hindu traditions. His ideas influenced and attracted commentaries from scholars of other Indian religions such as Buddhism. Pāṇini 's analysis of noun compounds still forms the basis of modern linguistic theories of compounding in Indian languages. Pāṇini 's comprehensive and scientific theory of grammar is conventionally taken to mark the start of Classical Sanskrit. His systematic treatise inspired and made Sanskrit the preeminent Indian language of learning and literature for two millennia. Pāṇini 's theory of morphological analysis was more advanced than any equivalent Western theory before the 20th century. His treatise is generative and descriptive, and has been compared to the Turing machine wherein the logical structure of any computing device has been reduced to its essentials using an idealized mathematical model. 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Contents 1 Date and context 1.1 Biography and location 1.2 Legends and later reception 2 Aṣṭādhyāyī 2.1 Rules 2.2 List of IT markers 2.3 Auxiliary texts 2.3. 1 Shiva Sutras 2.3. 2 Dhatupatha 2.3. 3 Ganapatha 2.4 Commentary 2.5 Editions 3 Bhaṭṭikāvya 4 Modern linguistics 4.1 De Saussure 4.2 Leonard Bloomfield 4.3 Comparison with modern formal systems 5 Other works 6 In popular culture 7 See also 8 Notes 9 References 9.1 Bibliography 10 External links Date and context Father of linguistics The history of linguistics begins not with Plato or Aristotle, but with the Indian grammarian Panini. -- Rens Bod, University of Amsterdam Nothing definite is known about when Pāṇini lived, not even in which century he lived. Most scholarship suggests he lived in or before mid-fourth century BCE ( floruit ), possibly in the sixth or fifth century BCE. Pāṇini 's grammar defines Classical Sanskrit, so Pāṇini is chronologically placed in the later part of the Vedic period. According to Rens Bod, a professor of Humanities specializing in comparative history, Pāṇini must have lived sometime between seventh and fifth centuries BCE. Some proposals have attempted to date Pāṇini from references within the text. The first proposal is based on sutra 2.1. 70 of Pāṇini, which mentions kumāraśramaṇa, with the word śramaṇa interpreted to imply that he may have had `` Buddhist nuns '' in mind, and therefore he should be placed after Gautama Buddha. Other scholars question this theory because nuns in the Indian traditions existed outside of and before Buddhism, such as in Jainism. The second proposal is based on the occurrence of the word yavanānī ( in 4.1. 49, either `` Greek woman '', or `` Greek alphabet '' ). This occurrence of yavanānī, some suggest a terminus post quem as 519 BCE, i.e. the time of Darius I 's Behistun Inscription that included the province of Gandhara ( IAST : Gandhāra ). However, in 1862 Max Müller objected to this interpretation with the statement that there is no reason to assume that yavana meant `` Greek '' before and in the century Pāṇini lived, and it could as well might have been a reference in a Semitic or a South Indian context. More recently, Patrick Olivelle -- a professor of Sanskrit and Indian religions, concurs and states that the term yona or yavana in Pāṇini is `` merely linguistic and does not necessarily indicate that he knew or was in contact with Greek settlers '', adding that while Pāṇini is generally estimated around the 5th century BCE, placing Pāṇini in a century `` is an educated guess ''. It is not certain whether Pāṇini used writing for the composition of his work, though it is generally agreed that he knew of a form of writing, based on references to words such as lipi ( `` script '' ) and lipikara ( `` scribe '' ) in section 3.2 of the Aṣṭādhyāyī. Pāṇini cites ten grammarians and linguists before him, none of whom can be chronologically placed with any certainty. The ten Vedic scholar names he quotes are of Apisali, Kashyapa, Gargya, Galava, Cakravarmana, Bharadvaja, Sakatayana, Sakalya, Senaka and Sphotayana. Both Brihatkatha and Mañjuśrī - mūla - kalpa mention Paninit to have been a contemporary with the Nanda king. While Pāṇini is considered a Hindu scholar of grammar and linguistics, his text is also an important historical source of cultural and geographical information. His work is significant such as in including the word Vasudeva ( 4.3. 98 ), which scholars disagree whether it refers to a deity or a person. The concept of dharma is attested in his sutra 4.4. 41 as, dharmam carati or `` he observes dharma ( duty, righteousness ) '' ( cf. Taittiriya Upanishad 1.11 ). Biography and location Also spelled without diacritics as Panini in scholarly literature, nothing certain is known about Pāṇini 's personal life. According to the Mahābhāṣya of Patanjali, his mother 's name was Dākṣī. Patañjali calls Pāṇini Dākṣīputra ( meaning son of Dākṣī ) at several places in the Mahābhāṣya. Rambhadracharya gives the name of his father as Paṇina, from which the name Pāṇini derives. In an inscription of Siladitya VII of Valabhi, he is called Śalāturiya, which means `` man from Salatura ''. This means Panini lived in Salatura of ancient Gandhara, which likely was near Lahur, a town at the junction of Indus and Kabul rivers. According to the memoirs of 7th - century Chinese scholar Xuanzang, there was a town called Suoluoduluo on the Indus where Pāṇini was born, and he composed the Qingming - lun ( Sanskrit : Vyākaraṇa ). According to Hartmut Scharfe, Pāṇini lived in Gandhara close to the borders of the Achaemenid Empire, and Gandhara was then an Achaemenian satrap. He must therefore have been technically a Persian subject, but states Scharfe, his work shows no trace of Persian. Inferences, however, vary between scholars. According to Patrick Olivelle, Pāṇini 's text and references to him elsewhere suggest that `` he was clearly a northerner, probably from the northwestern region ''. Legends and later reception Panini is mentioned in Indian fables and ancient texts. The Panchatantra, for example, mentions that Pāṇini was killed by a lion. Pāṇini was depicted on a five - rupee Indian postage stamp in 2004. Aṣṭādhyāyī The Aṣṭādhyāyī is the central part of Pāṇini 's grammar, and by far the most complex. The Ashtadhyayi is the oldest surviving complete linguistic and grammar text of Sanskrit, and Pāṇini refers to previous texts and authors such as the Unadisutra, Dhatupatha, and Ganapatha some of which have not survived. It complements the Vedic ancillary sciences such as the Niruktas, Nighantus, and Shiksha. Regarded as extremely compact without sacrificing completeness, it would become the model for later specialist technical texts or sutras. The text takes material from lexical lists ( Dhatupatha, Ganapatha ) as input and describes algorithms to be applied to them for the generation of well - formed words. It is highly systematised and technical. Inherent in its approach are the concepts of the phoneme, the morpheme and the root. His rules have a reputation for perfection -- that is, they tersely describe Sanskrit morphology unambiguously and completely. A consequence of his grammar 's focus on brevity is its highly unintuitive structure, reminiscent of modern notations such as the `` Backus -- Naur form ''. His sophisticated logical rules and technique have been widely influential in ancient and modern linguistics. The Aṣṭādhyāyī was not the first description of Sanskrit grammar, but it is the earliest that has survived in full. The Aṣṭādhyāyī became the foundation of Vyākaraṇa, a Vedanga. In the Aṣṭādhyāyī, language is observed in a manner that has no parallel among Greek or Latin grammarians. Pāṇini 's grammar, according to Renou and Filliozat, defines the linguistic expression and a classic that set the standard for Sanskrit language. Pāṇini made use of a technical metalanguage consisting of a syntax, morphology and lexicon. This metalanguage is organised according to a series of meta - rules, some of which are explicitly stated while others can be deduced. The Aṣṭādhyāyī consists of 3,959 sutras or `` aphoristic threads '' in eight chapters, which are each subdivided into four sections or padas ( pādāḥ ). This text attracted a famous and one of the most ancient Bhasya ( commentary ) called the Mahabhasya. The author of Mahabhasya is named Patanjali, who may or may not be the same person as the one who authored Yogasutras. The Mahabhasya, literally `` great commentary '', is more than a commentary on Ashtadhyayi. It is the earliest known philosophical text of the Hindu Grammarians. Non-Hindu texts and traditions on grammar emerged after Patanjali, some of which include the Sanskrit grammar text of Jainendra of Jainism and the Chandra school of Buddhism. Rules The first two sutras are as follows : 1.1. 1 vṛddhir ādaiC ( वृद्धिरादैच् । १ । १ । १ ) 1.1. 2 adeṄ guṇaḥ ( अदेङ्गुणः । १ । १ । २ ) In these sutras, the capital letters are special meta - linguistic symbols ; they are called IT ( इत् ) markers or, in later writers such as Katyayana and Patanjali, anubandhas ( see below ). The C and Ṅ refer to Shiva Sutras 4 ( `` ai, au, C '' ) and 3 ( `` e, o, Ṅ '' ), respectively, forming what are known as the pratyāhāras `` comprehensive designations '' aiC, eṄ. They denote the list of phonemes ( ai, au ) and ( e, o ) respectively. The त् ( T ) appearing ( in its variant form / d / ) in both sutras is also an IT marker : Sutra 1.1. 70 defines it as indicating that the preceding phoneme does not represent a list, but a single phoneme, encompassing all supra - segmental features such as accent and nasality. For further example, आत् ( āT ) and अत् ( aT ) represent आ ( ā ) and अ ( a ) respectively. When a sutra defines a technical term, the term defined comes at the end, so the first sutra should have properly been ādaiJ vṛddhir instead of vṛddhir ādaiC. However the order is reversed to have a good - luck word at the very beginning of the work ; vṛddhir happens to mean ' prosperity ' in its non-technical use. Thus the two sūtras consist of a list of phonemes, followed by a technical term ; the final interpretation of the two sūtras above is thus : 1.1. 1 : ( ā, ai, au ) are called vṛ́ddhi. 1.1. 2 : ( a, e, o ) are called guṇa. At this point, one can see they are definitions of terminology : guṇa and vṛ́ddhi are the terms for the full and the lengthened Indo - European ablaut grades, respectively. List of it markers its or anubandhas are defined in P. 1.3. 2 through P. 1.3. 8. These definitions refer only to items taught in the grammar or its ancillary texts such at the dhātupāţha ; this fact is made clear in P. 1.3. 2 by the word upadeśe, which is then continued in the following six rules by anuvṛtti, Ellipsis. As these anubandhas are metalinguistic markers and not pronounced in the final derived form, pada ( word ), they are elided by P. 1.3. 9 tasya lopaḥ -- ' There is elision of that ( i.e. any of the preceding items which have been defined as an it ). ' Accordingly, Pāṇini defines the anubandhas as follows : Nasalized vowels, e.g. bhañjO. Cf. P. 1.3. 2. A final consonant ( haL ). Cf. P. 1.3. 3. 2. ( a ) except a dental, m and s in verbal or nominal endings. Cf. P. 1.3. 4. Initial ñi ṭu ḍu. Cf. P 1.3. 5 Initial ṣ of a suffix ( pratyaya ). Cf. P. 1.3. 6. Initial palatals and cerebrals of a suffix. Cf. P. 1.3. 7 Initial l, ś, and k but not in a taddhita ' secondary ' suffix. Cf. P. 1.3. 8. A few examples of elements that contain its are as follows : suP nominal suffix Ś - IT Śi strong case endings Ślu elision ŚaP active marker P - IT luP elision āP ā - stems CāP ṬāP ḌāP LyaP ( 7.1. 37 ) L - IT K - IT Ktvā luK elision saN Desiderative C - IT M - IT Ṅ - IT Ṅí Causative Ṅii ī - stems ṄīP ṄīN Ṅī'Ṣ tiṄ verbal suffix lUṄ Aorist lIṄ Precative S - IT GHU class of verbal stems ( 1.1. 20 ) GHI ( 1.4. 7 ) Auxiliary texts Pāṇini 's Ashtadhyayi has three associated texts. The Shiva Sutras are a brief but highly organised list of phonemes. The Dhatupatha is a lexical list of verbal roots sorted by present class. The Ganapatha is a lexical list of nominal stems grouped by common properties. Shiva sūtras Main article : Shiva Sutras The Shiva Sutras describe a phonemic notational system in the fourteen initial lines preceding the Ashtadhyayi. The notational system introduces different clusters of phonemes that serve special roles in the morphology of Sanskrit, and are referred to throughout the text. Each cluster, called a pratyāhara ends with a dummy sound called an anubandha ( the so - called IT index ), which acts as a symbolic referent for the list. Within the main text, these clusters, referred through the anubandhas, are related to various grammatical functions. Dhatupatha The Dhatupatha is a lexicon of Sanskrit verbal roots subservient to the Ashtadhyayi. It is organised by the ten present classes of Sanskrit, i.e. the roots are grouped by the form of their stem in the present tense. The ten present classes of Sanskrit are : bhū - ādayaḥ ( root - full grade thematic presents ) ad - ādayaḥ ( root presents ) juhoti - ādayaḥ ( reduplicated presents ) div - ādayaḥ ( ya thematic presents ) su - ādayaḥ ( nu presents ) tud - ādayaḥ ( root - zero grade thematic presents ) rudh - ādayaḥ ( n - infix presents ) tan - ādayaḥ ( no presents ) krī - ādayaḥ ( ni presents ) cur - ādayaḥ ( aya presents, causatives ) The small number of class 8 verbs are a secondary group derived from class 5 roots, and class 10 is a special case, in that any verb can form class 10 presents, then assuming causative meaning. The roots specifically listed as belonging to class 10 are those for which any other form has fallen out of use ( causative deponents, so to speak ). Ganapatha The Ganapatha ( gaṇapāṭha ) is a list of groups of primitive nominal stems used by the Ashtadhyayi. Commentary After Pāṇini, the Mahābhāṣya ( `` great commentary '' ) of Patañjali on the Ashtadhyayi is one of the three most famous works in Sanskrit grammar. It was with Patañjali that Indian linguistic science reached its definite form. The system thus established is extremely detailed as to shiksha ( phonology, including accent ) and vyakarana ( morphology ). Syntax is scarcely touched, but nirukta ( etymology ) is discussed, and these etymologies naturally lead to semantic explanations. People interpret his work to be a defence of Pāṇini, whose Sūtras are elaborated meaningfully. He also attacks Katyayana rather severely. But the main contributions of Patañjali lies in the treatment of the principles of grammar enunciated by him. Editions Rama Nath Sharma, The Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini ( 6 Vols. ), 2001, ISBN 8121500516 Otto Böhtlingk, Panini 's Grammatik 1887, reprint 1998 ISBN 3 - 87548 - 198 - 4 Katre, Sumitra M., Astadhyayi of Panini, Austin : University of Texas Press, 1987. Reprint Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass, 1989. ISBN 0 - 292 - 70394 - 5 Misra, Vidya Niwas, The Descriptive Technique of Panini, Mouton and Co., 1966. The Ashtadhyayi. ( of Pāṇini ) Translated into English by Srisa Chandra Vasu ( 1897 ), from this archive. Bhaṭṭikāvya Main article : Bhaṭṭikāvya The learning of Indian curriculum in late classical times had at its heart a system of grammatical study and linguistic analysis. The core text for this study was the Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini, the sine qua non of learning. This grammar of Pāṇini had been the object of intense study for the ten centuries prior to the composition of the Bhaṭṭikāvya. It was plainly Bhaṭṭi 's purpose to provide a study aid to Pāṇini 's text by using the examples already provided in the existing grammatical commentaries in the context of the gripping and morally improving story of the Rāmāyaṇa. To the dry bones of this grammar Bhaṭṭi has given juicy flesh in his poem. The intention of the author was to teach this advanced science through a relatively easy and pleasant medium. In his own words : This composition is like a lamp to those who perceive the meaning of words and like a hand mirror for a blind man to those without grammar. This poem, which is to be understood by means of a commentary, is a joy to those sufficiently learned : through my fondness for the scholar I have here slighted the dullard. Bhaṭṭikāvya 22.33 -- 34. Modern linguistics Pāṇini 's work became known in 19th - century Europe, where it influenced modern linguistics initially through Franz Bopp, who mainly looked at Pāṇini. Subsequently, a wider body of work influenced Sanskrit scholars such as Ferdinand de Saussure, Leonard Bloomfield, and Roman Jakobson. Frits Staal ( 1930 -- 2012 ) discussed the impact of Indian ideas on language in Europe. After outlining the various aspects of the contact, Staal notes that the idea of formal rules in language -- proposed by Ferdinand de Saussure in 1894 and developed by Noam Chomsky in 1957 -- has origins in the European exposure to the formal rules of Pāṇinian grammar. In particular, de Saussure, who lectured on Sanskrit for three decades, may have been influenced by Pāṇini and Bhartrihari ; his idea of the unity of signifier - signified in the sign somewhat resembles the notion of Sphoṭa. More importantly, the very idea that formal rules can be applied to areas outside of logic or mathematics may itself have been catalysed by Europe 's contact with the work of Sanskrit grammarians. De Saussure Pāṇini, and the later Indian linguist Bhartrihari, had a significant influence on many of the foundational ideas proposed by Ferdinand de Saussure, professor of Sanskrit, who is widely considered the father of modern structural linguistics and with Charles S. Peirce on the other side, to semiotics, although the concept Saussure used was semiology. Saussure himself cited Indian grammar as an influence on some of his ideas. In his Mémoire sur le système primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo - européennes ( Memoir on the Original System of Vowels in the Indo - European Languages ) published in 1879, he mentions Indian grammar as an influence on his idea that `` reduplicated aorists represent imperfects of a verbal class. '' In his De l'emploi du génitif absolu en sanscrit ( On the Use of the Genitive Absolute in Sanskrit ) published in 1881, he specifically mentions Pāṇini as an influence on the work. Prem Singh, in his foreword to the reprint edition of the German translation of Pāṇini 's Grammar in 1998, concluded that the `` effect Panini 's work had on Indo - European linguistics shows itself in various studies '' and that a `` number of seminal works come to mind, '' including Saussure 's works and the analysis that `` gave rise to the laryngeal theory, '' further stating : `` This type of structural analysis suggests influence from Panini 's analytical teaching. '' George Cardona, however, warns against overestimating the influence of Pāṇini on modern linguistics : `` Although Saussure also refers to predecessors who had taken this Paninian rule into account, it is reasonable to conclude that he had a direct acquaintance with Panini 's work. As far as I am able to discern upon rereading Saussure 's Mémoire, however, it shows no direct influence of Paninian grammar. Indeed, on occasion, Saussure follows a path that is contrary to Paninian procedure. '' Leonard Bloomfield The founding father of American structuralism, Leonard Bloomfield, wrote a 1927 paper titled `` On some rules of Pāṇini ''. Comparison with modern formal systems Pāṇini 's grammar is the world 's first formal system, developed well before the 19th century innovations of Gottlob Frege and the subsequent development of mathematical logic. In designing his grammar, Pāṇini used the method of `` auxiliary symbols '', in which new affixes are designated to mark syntactic categories and the control of grammatical derivations. This technique, rediscovered by the logician Emil Post, became a standard method in the design of computer programming languages. Sanskritists now accept that Pāṇini 's linguistic apparatus is well - described as an `` applied '' Post system. Considerable evidence shows ancient mastery of context - sensitive grammars, and a general ability to solve many complex problems. Frits Staal has written that `` Panini is the Indian Euclid. '' Other works Two literary works are attributed to Pāṇini, though they are now lost. Jāmbavati Vijaya is a lost work cited by one Rajashekhar in Jahlana 's Sukti Muktāvalī. A fragment is to be found in Ramayukta 's commentary on Namalinganushasana. From the title it may be inferred that the work dealt with Krishna 's winning of Jambavati in the underworld as his bride. Rajashekhara in Jahlana 's Sukti Muktāvalī : नमः पाणिनये तस्मै यस्मादाविर भूदिह । आदौ व्याकरणं काव्यमनु जाम्बवतीजयम् ॥ namaḥ pāṇinaye tasmai yasmādāvirabhūdiha । ādau vyākaraṇaṃ kāvyamanu jāmbavatījayam ॥ Ascribed to Pāṇini, Pātāla Vijaya is a lost work cited by Namisadhu in his commentary on Kavyalankara of Rudrata. In popular culture India released a stamp in honour of Pāṇini in 2004. See also Sanskrit grammarians Bhaṭṭikāvya Pingala seṭ and aniṭ roots List of Indian mathematicians Notes Jump up ^ According to George Cardonna, the tradition believes that Pāṇini came from Salatura in northwest part of the Indian subcontinent. This is likely to be ancient Gandhara. Jump up ^ Pāṇini 's use of the term lipi has been a source of scholarly disagreements. Harry Falk in his 1993 overview states that ancient Indians neither knew nor used writing script, and Pāṇini 's mention is likely a reference to Semitic and Greek scripts. In his 1995 review, Salomon questions Falk 's arguments and writes it is `` speculative at best and hardly constitutes firm grounds for a late date for Kharoṣṭhī. The stronger argument for this position is that we have no specimen of the script before the time of Ashoka, nor any direct evidence of intermediate stages in its development ; but of course this does not mean that such earlier forms did not exist, only that, if they did exist, they have not survived, presumably because they were not employed for monumental purposes before Ashoka ''. According to Hartmut Scharfe, Lipi of Pāṇini may be borrowed from the Old Persian Dipi, in turn derived from Sumerian Dup. Scharfe adds that the best evidence, at the time of his review, is that no script was used in India, aside from the Northwest Indian subcontinent, before around 300 BCE because Indian tradition `` at every occasion stresses the orality of the cultural and literary heritage. '' Kenneth Norman states writing scripts in ancient India evolved over the long period of time like other cultures, that it is unlikely that ancient Indians developed a single complete writing system at one and the same time in the Maurya era. It is even less likely, states Norman, that a writing script was invented during Ashoka 's rule, starting from nothing, for the specific purpose of writing his inscriptions and then it was understood all over South Asia where the Ashoka pillars are found. Jack Goody states that ancient India likely had a `` very old culture of writing '' along with its oral tradition of composing and transmitting knowledge, because the Vedic literature is too vast, consistent and complex to have been entirely created, memorized, accurately preserved and spread without a written system. Falk disagrees with Goody, and suggests that it is a Western presumption and inability to imagine that remarkably early scientific achievements such as Pāṇini 's grammar ( 5th to 4th century BCE ), and the creation, preservation and wide distribution of the large corpus of the Brahmanic Vedic literature and the Buddhist canonical literature, without any writing scripts. Johannes Bronkhorst disagrees with Falk, and states, `` Falk goes too far. It is fair to expect that we believe that Vedic memorisation -- though without parallel in any other human society -- has been able to preserve very long texts for many centuries without losing a syllable. (... ) However, the oral composition of a work as complex as Pāṇini 's grammar is not only without parallel in other human cultures, it is without parallel in India itself. (... ) It just will not do to state that our difficulty in conceiving any such thing is our problem ''. Jump up ^ The earliest secondary literature on the primary text of Pāṇini are by Katyayana ( ~ 3rd century BCE ) and Patanjali ( ~ 2nd century BCE ). References ^ Jump up to : The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica ( 2013 ). Ashtadhyayi, Work by Panini. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 23 October 2017., Quote : `` Ashtadhyayi, Sanskrit Aṣṭādhyāyī ( `` Eight Chapters '' ), Sanskrit treatise on grammar written in the 6th to 5th century BCE by the Indian grammarian Panini. '' ^ Jump up to : Frits Staal ( 1965 ), Euclid and Pāṇini, Philosophy East and West, Vol. 15, No. 2 ( Apr., 1965 ), pp. 99 - 116 ^ Jump up to : Cardona, George ( 1998 ), Pāṇini : A Survey of Research, Motilal Banarsidass, p. 268, ISBN 978 - 81 - 208 - 1494 - 3 ^ Jump up to : Steven Weisler ; Slavoljub P. Milekic ( 2000 ). Theory of Language. MIT Press. p. 44. ISBN 978 - 0 - 262 - 73125 - 6., Quote : `` The linguistic investigations of Panini, the notable Hindu grammarian, can be... 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Journal of Central Eurasian Studies. 1 : 5, 1 -- 13. Jump up ^ Rita Sherma ; Arvind Sharma ( 2008 ). Hermeneutics and Hindu Thought : Toward a Fusion of Horizons. Springer. p. 235. ISBN 978 - 1 - 4020 - 8192 - 7. Jump up ^ Falk, Harry ( 1993 ). Schrift im alten Indien : ein Forschungsbericht mit Anmerkungen ( in German ). Gunter Narr Verlag. pp. 109 -- 167. Jump up ^ Salomon, Richard ( 1995 ). `` Review : On the Origin of the Early Indian Scripts ''. Journal of the American Oriental Society. 115 ( 2 ) : 271 -- 278. doi : 10.2307 / 604670. access - date = requires url = ( help ) Jump up ^ Scharfe, Hartmut ( 2002 ), Education in Ancient India, Handbook of Oriental Studies, Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, pp. 10 -- 12 Jump up ^ Oskar von Hinüber ( 1989 ). Der Beginn der Schrift und frühe Schriftlichkeit in Indien. Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur. pp. 241 -- 245. OCLC 22195130. Jump up ^ Jack Goody ( 1987 ). The Interface Between the Written and the Oral. Cambridge University Press. pp. 110 -- 124. ISBN 978 - 0 - 521 - 33794 - 6. Jump up ^ Johannes Bronkhorst ( 2002 ), Literacy and Rationality in Ancient India, Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques, 56 ( 4 ), pages 803 - 804, 797 - 831 Jump up ^ Pāṇini ; Sumitra Mangesh Katre ( 1989 ). Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini. Motilal Banarsidass. pp. xix -- xxi. ISBN 978 - 81 - 208 - 0521 - 7. Jump up ^ ( A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India : From the Stone Age to the 12th Century, Upinder Singh, Pearson Education India, 2008 p. 258 ) Jump up ^ Morris Halle ( 1971 ). The Sound Pattern of Russian : A Linguistic and Acoustical Investigation. Walter de Gruyter. p. 88. ISBN 978 - 3 - 11 - 086945 - 3., Quote : `` The problem was, however, faced by the Hindu grammarian Panini, who apparently was conscious of the grammatical implications of his phonetic classificatory scheme. '' Jump up ^ R.G. Bhandarkar ( 1910 ), Vasudeva of Panini IV, iii, 98, The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Cambridge University Press, ( Jan., 1910 ), pp. 168 - 170 Jump up ^ Rama Nath Sharma ( 1999 ). The Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini : english translation of adhyāyas four and five. Munshiram Manoharlal. p. 377. ISBN 978 - 81 - 215 - 0747 - 9. ; Sanskrit : ४. ४. ४१ धर्मं चरति ।, अष्टाध्यायी ४, Wikisource Jump up ^ Peter Scharf ( 2014 ). Ramopakhyana - The Story of Rama in the Mahabharata. Routledge. p. 192. ISBN 978 - 1 - 136 - 84655 - 7. ^ Jump up to : Mishra, Giridhar ( 1981 ). `` प्रस्तावना '' ( Introduction ). अध्यात्मरामायणेऽपाणिनीयप्रयोगाणां विमर्शः ( Deliberation on non-Paninian usages in the Adhyatma Ramayana ) ( in Sanskrit ). Varanasi, India : Sampurnanand Sanskrit University. Retrieved 21 May 2013. ^ Jump up to : Hartmut Scharfe ( 1977 ). Grammatical Literature. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. pp. 88 with footnotes. ISBN 978 - 3 - 447 - 01706 - 0. Jump up ^ Singh, Nagendra Kr., ed. ( 1997 ), Encyclopaedia of Hinduism, New Delhi : Centre for International Religious Studies : Anmol Publications, pp. 1983 -- 2007, ISBN 978 - 81 - 7488 - 168 - 7 Jump up ^ Patrick Olivelle ( 1999 ). Dharmasutras. Oxford University Press. pp. xxvi -- xxvii. ISBN 978 - 0 - 19 - 283882 - 7. Jump up ^ George Cardona ( 1997 ). Pāṇini : a survey of research. The verse reads siṃho vyākaraṇasya kartur aharat prāṇān priyān pāṇineḥ `` a lion took the dear life of Panini, author of the grammatical treatise ''. The context is a list of scholars killed by animals, siṃho vyākaraṇasya kartur aharat prāṇān priyān pāṇineḥ / mīmāṃsākṛtam unmamātha sahasā hastī muniṃ jaiminim / / chandojnānanidhim jaghāna makaro velātaṭe piṅgalam / ajñānāvṛtacetasām atiruṣāṃ ko'rthas tiraścām guṇaiḥ / / Translation : `` A lion killed Pāṇini ; an elephant madly crushed the sage Jaimini, Mimamsa 's author ; Pingala, treasury of knowledge of poetic meter, was killed by a crocodile at the water 's edge. What do senseless beasts, overcome with fury, care for intellectual virtues ? '' ( Pañcatantra II. 28, sometimes ascribed to Vallabhadeva ) Jump up ^ Bhattacharyya, D.C. ( 1928 ). `` Date of the Subhasitavali ''. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland ( 1 ) : 135 -- 137. doi : 10.2307 / 25221320. Jump up ^ Winternitz, Moriz ( 1963 ). History of Indian Literature. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. p. 462. ISBN 978 - 81 - 208 - 0056 - 4. ; Nakamura, Hajime ( 1983 ). A History of Early Vedānta Philosophy. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. p. 400. ISBN 978 - 81 - 208 - 0651 - 1. Jump up ^ `` Stamps 2004 ''. Indian Department of Posts, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology. 23 April 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2015. Jump up ^ James Lochtefeld ( 2002 ), `` Vyakarana '' in The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Vol. 2 : N-Z, Rosen Publishing, ISBN 0 - 8239 - 2287 - 1, pages 476, 744 - 745, 769 Jump up ^ Jonardon Ganeri, Sanskrit Philosophical Commentary ( PDF ) `` Udayana states that a technical treatise or śāstra, in any discipline, should aspire to clarity ( vaiśadya ), compactness ( laghutā ), and completeness ( kṛtsnatā ). A compilation of sūtras maximises compactness and completeness, at the expense of clarity. A bhāṣya is complete and clear, but not compact. A group of sūtras, a ' section ' or prakaraṇa of the whole compilation, is clear and compact, but not complete. The sūtras achieve compactness i ) by making sequence significant, ii ) letting one item stand for or range over many, and iii ) using grammar and lexicon artificially. The background model is always Pāṇini 's grammar for the Sanskrit language, the Aṣṭādhyāyī, which exploits a range of brevity - enabling devices to compose what has often been described as the tersest and yet most complete grammar of any language. '' The monumental multi-volume grammars published in the 20th century ( for Sanskrit, the Altindische Grammatik 1896 -- 1957 ) of course set new standards in completeness, but the Ashtadhyayi remains unrivalled in terms of terseness. Jump up ^ In the 1909 Imperial Gazetteer of India, it was still possible to describe it as `` at once the shortest and the fullest grammar in the world ''. Sanskrit Literature, The Imperial Gazetteer of India, vol. 2 ( 1909 ), p. 263. Jump up ^ Bloomfield, L., 1929, `` Review of Liebich, Konkordanz Pāṇini - Candra, '' Language 5, 267 -- 276. Jump up ^ Harold G. Coward 1990, pp. 13 - 14, 111. Jump up ^ Louis Renou & Jean Filliozat. L'Inde Classique, manuel des etudes indiennes, vol. II pp. 86 -- 90, École française d'Extrême - Orient, 1953, reprinted 2000. ISBN 2 - 85539 - 903 - 3. Jump up ^ Angot, Michel. L'Inde Classique, pp. 213 -- 215. Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 2001. ISBN 2 - 251 - 41015 - 5 Jump up ^ George Cardona 1997, pp. 243 - 259. ^ Jump up to : Harold G. Coward 1990, p. 16. Jump up ^ Tibor Kiss 2015, pp. 71 - 72. Jump up ^ Harold G. Coward 1990, pp. 16 - 17. Jump up ^ `` The Astadhyayi of Panini ( 6 Vols. ) by Rama Nath Sharma at Vedic Books ''. www.vedicbooks.net. Retrieved 2016 - 09 - 22. Jump up ^ Filliozat. 2002 The Sanskrit Language : An Overview -- History and Structure, Linguistic and Philosophical Representations, Uses and Users. Indica Books. Jump up ^ Fallon, Oliver. 2009. Bhatti 's Poem : The Death of Rávana ( Bhaṭṭikāvya ). New York : Clay Sanskrit Library ( 1 ). 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( in Sanskrit ) ( in English ) O'Connor, John J. ; Robertson, Edmund F., `` Pāṇini '', MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews. 2000. Prince, Alan ; Smolensky, Paul ( 15 April 2008 ). Optimality Theory : Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978 - 0 - 470 - 75939 - 4. T.R.N. Rao. Pāṇini - backus form of languages. 1998. Tiwary, Kapil Muni 1968 Pāṇini 's description of nominal compounds, University of Pennsylvania doctoral dissertation, unpublished. Ingerman, Peter Zilahy ( March 1967 ). `` '' Pāṇini - Backus Form '' Suggested ``. Communications of the ACM. Association for Computing Machinery. 10 ( 3 ) : 137. doi : 10.1145 / 363162.363165. Retrieved 24 September 2014. Ingerman suggests that the then - called Backus normal form be renamed to the Pāṇini -- Backus form, to give due credit to Pāṇini as the earliest independent inventor. 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Question: who wrote a famous treatise on sanskrit grammer
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