Panini
Sign in to savePanini (, ) was a Sanskrit grammarian, logician, philologist, and revered scholar of Ancient India during the mid-1st millennium BCE, dated variously by most scholars between the 6th–5th and 4th centuries BCE.
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Panini was an ancient Indian scholar who lived sometime between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE and is famous for his work in Sanskrit grammar, logic, and language study. He is considered one of the most important figures in the history of linguistics because of his influential contributions to understanding and standardizing the Sanskrit language.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 0520-00-00
- Died
- 0460-00-00
- Works
- 41
Top works
- The Ashtadhyayi
- Sanskrit Grammar in Sanskrit and English (Ashtadhygyj)
- Madhaviyadhatuvrittih
- The Ashtadhyayi Translated Into English by Srisa Chandra Vasu
- Vyākaraṇamitākṣarā ; Annaṃbhaṭṭapraṇīta ; Śrīparavastu Śrīnivāsa Jagannāthasvāmibhirāryavaragurubhistatputreṇa Bhaṭṭanātha Svāmi Vidyāratnena ca saṃśodhitā
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- 2,449
- Total plays
- 15,735
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Article
18 sectionsContents
- Biography
- Dating
- Location
- Legends and later reception
- ''Ashtadhyayi''
- ''Bhaṭṭikāvya''
- Legacy
- Modern linguistics
- De Saussure
- Comparison with modern formal systems
- Other works
- See also
- Glossary
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
Panini (, ) was a Sanskrit grammarian, logician, philologist, and revered scholar of Ancient India during the mid-1st millennium BCE, dated variously by most scholars between the 6th–5th and 4th centuries BCE.
The historical facts of his life are unknown, except only what can be inferred from his works, and legends recorded long after. His most notable work, the Ashtadhyayi (Aṣṭādhyāyī) (Devanagari: अष्टाध्यायी), is conventionally taken to mark the start of Classical Sanskrit. His work formally codified Classical Sanskrit as a refined and standardized language, making use of a technical metalanguage consisting of a syntax, morphology, and lexicon, organised according to a series of meta-rules.