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According to some modern era Indian scholars such as P.V. Sharma, the two medical scholars named Patanjali may be the same person, but completely different person from the Patanjali who wrote the Sanskrit grammar classic Mahābhashya. [23] Patanjali is one of the 18 siddhars in the Tamil siddha tradition. [24]
Mahabhashya (Sanskrit: महाभाष्य, IAST: Mahābhāṣya, IPA: [mɐɦaːbʱaːʂjɐ], "Great Commentary"), attributed to Patañjali, is a commentary on selected rules of Sanskrit grammar from Pāṇini's treatise, the Aṣṭādhyāyī, as well as Kātyāyana's Vārttika-sūtra, an elaboration of Pāṇini's grammar.
Pāṇini's grammar is the world's first formal system, [citation needed] 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 ...
The grammar of the Sanskrit language has a complex verbal system, rich nominal declension, and extensive use of compound nouns.It was studied and codified by Sanskrit grammarians from the later Vedic period (roughly 8th century BCE), culminating in the Pāṇinian grammar of the 4th century BCE.
[32] [note 2] Non-Hindu texts and traditions on grammar emerged after Patañjali, some of which include the Sanskrit grammar by the Jain author Jainendra and the Cāndra grammar by the Buddhist Candragomin. [34] Patanjali's Great Grammatical Discourse [Vyakrana-Mahābhāṣya] is regarded as the classical model for academic texts. It is written ...
The Aṣṭādhyāyī (/ ˌ æ s t ə d ˈ j ɑː (j) i /; Sanskrit: अष्टाध्यायी [ɐʂʈaːdʱjáːjiː]) is a grammar text that describes a ...
Aryendra Sharma, Kasika - a commentary on Pāṇini's grammar by Vamana and Jayaditya.Hyderabad : Osmania University, Sanskrit Academy 1969–1985. P. Haag and V. Vergiani (eds.), Studies in the Kāśikāvṛtti : the section on pratyāhāras ; critical edition, translation and other contributions, Firenze : Società Editrice Fiorentina ; New Delhi : Manohar, 2009, ISBN 978-88-6032-114-5.
Pāṇini's grammar, according to Renou and Filliozat, is a classic that defines the linguistic expression and sets the standard for the Sanskrit language. [94] Pāṇini made use of a technical metalanguage consisting of a syntax, morphology and lexicon.