Question

The two great ____ of this period were Panini and ___​

Answer 1

Answer:

The two great grammarians of this period were Panini and Patanjali.

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Answer 2

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Pāṇini (Sanskrit: पाणिनि) (pronounced [paːɳɪnɪ], variously dated between fl. 4th century BCE[1][2][3][4] and "6th to 5th century BCE"[5][6][web 1][note 1]) was an ancient Sanskrit philologist, grammarian, and a revered scholar in ancient India.[7][9][10]

Pāṇini

Sanskrit: पाणिनि

Birch bark MS from Kashmir of the Rupavatra Wellcome L0032691.jpg

A 17th-century birch bark manuscript of Pāṇini's grammar treatise from Kashmir

Notable work

Aṣṭādhyāyī (Classical Sanskrit)

Era

fl. 4th century BCE;[1][2][3];

fl. 400–350 BCE[4];

6th–5th century BCE[5][6][web 1][note 1]

Region

Northwest Indian subcontinent[note 2]

Main interests

Grammar, linguistics[8]

Since the discovery and publication of his work by European scholars in the nineteenth century, Pāṇini has been considered the "first descriptive linguist",[11] and even labelled as “the father of linguistics”.[12][13][14] Pāṇini's grammar was influential on such foundational linguists as Ferdinand de Saussure and Leonard Bloomfield.[15]