Panini

…bce by the Indian grammarian Panini. This work set the linguistic standards for Classical Sanskrit. It sums up in 4,000 sutras the science of phonetics and grammar that had evolved in the Vedic religion. Panini divided his work into eight chapters, each of which is further divided into quarter chapters.…

…culminates with the grammar of Panini, of the 5th century bce. There are three major ways in which the Sanskrit tradition has had an impact on modern linguistic scholarship. As soon as Sanskrit became known to the Western learned world, the unravelling of comparative Indo-European grammar ensued, and the foundations…

” Panini, a 5th-century-bce grammarian, stated that the former is one who believes in a transcendent world (asti paralokah) and the latter is one who does not believe in it (nasti paralokah). Astika may also mean one who accepts the authority of the Vedas; nastika then…

In the works of Panini, a Hindu grammarian, the sutra style reached a perfection never attained before and only imperfectly approximated by the later practitioners. The sutra literature began before the rise of Buddhism, though the philosophical sutras all seem to have been composed afterward. The Buddhist sutra (Pali…

…time of the Sanskrit grammarian Panini, if not before, had arrived at a much more comprehensive and scientific theory of phonetics, phonology, and morphology than anything achieved in the West until the modern period.

…the language is ascribed to Pāṇini (5th or 6th century bc), whose grammar has remained normative for the correct language ever since. This language is called Sanskrit (Tongue Perfected). Sanskrit has had a scarcely interrupted literature from about 600 bc until today, but its greatest efflorescence was in the classical…

…appear in the writings of Panini, the Sanskrit grammarian of the 5th century bce, and references to actors, dancers, mummers, theatrical companies, and academies are found in Kautilya’s book on statesmanship, the Artha-shastra (4th century bce). But classical structure, form, and style of acting and production with aesthetic rules were…

The current language Pāṇini describes is very close in structure to the late Vedic found in certain Brāhmaṇa texts. As noted earlier, scholars have recognized other varieties of Sanskrit. Epic Sanskrit is so called because it is represented principally in the two epics, Mahābhārata (“Great Epic of the…