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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.
Sanskrit has, together with Ancient Greek, kept most intact among descendants the elaborate verbal morphology of Proto-Indo-European.Sanskrit verbs [α] thus have an inflection system for different combinations of tense, aspect, mood, voice, number, and person.
The injunctive mood is a grammatical mood in Sanskrit that was characterized by secondary endings but no augment, and usually looked like an augmentless aorist or imperfect. [1] It typically stood in a main clause and had a subjunctive or imperative meaning; for example, it could indicate intention, e.g. índrasya nú vīryā̀ṇi prá vocam ...
Arthur Coke Burnell, a renowned orientologist, in his 1875 book, "On the Aindra school of Sanskrit grammars", describes this school. Burnell believed that most non-Pāṇinian systems of Sanskrit grammar were traceable to this school of grammar, believed to be the oldest and reputed to be founded by Indra himself.
The Classical Sanskrit with its exacting grammar was thus the language of the Indian scholars and the educated classes, while others communicated with approximate or ungrammatical variants of it as well as other natural Indian languages. [120] Sanskrit, as the learned language of Ancient India, thus existed alongside the vernacular Prakrits. [120]
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. It is dated to ...
The pitch accent of Vedic Sanskrit, or Vedic accent (Vedic: स्वराः svarāḥ) for brevity, is traditionally divided by Sanskrit grammarians into three qualities, udātta उदात्त "raised" (acute accent, high pitch), anudātta अनुदात्त "not raised" (unstressed, or low pitch, grave accent) and svarita स्वरित "sounded" (high falling pitch ...
A Sanskrit Grammar for Students. Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN 81-246-0094-5. Monier-Williams, Monier. A Sanskrit Dictionary. Oxford Clarendon Press. Rajpopat, Rishi Atul (2021). In Pāṇini We Trust: Discovering the Algorithm for Rule Conflict Resolution in the Aṣṭādhāyī (PDF) (PhD dissertation). University of Cambridge. doi:10.17863/CAM ...