Which text is considered as mother of grammar in ancient india?
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Pāṇini
This article is about an ancient Sanskrit scholar from the Indian subcontinent. For other uses, see Panini (disambiguation).
Pāṇini (pronounced [paːɳin̪i], fl. 4th century BCE[5] or "6th to 5th century BCE"[4] ) was an ancient Sanskrit philologist, grammarian, and a revered scholar in ancient India.[5][7][8] Considered the father of Indian linguistics,[9] Pāṇini likely lived in the northwest Indian subcontinent during the Mahajanapada era.[2] He is said to have been born in what is now Pakistan, in Shalatula near Attock, not far from Taxila, in what was then a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire following the Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley, which technically made him in all probability a Persian subject.[10][11][12]
Pāṇini
Native name
Sanskrit: पाणिनि
Notable work
Aṣṭādhyāyī (Classical Sanskrit)
Era
fl. 4th century BCE[1][2][3] or "13th to 12th century BCE"[dubious – discuss][4]
Region
Northwest Indian subcontinent[note 1]
Main interests
Grammar, Linguistics[6]
A 17th-century birch bark manuscript of Pāṇini's grammar treatise from Kashmir
Pāṇini is known for his text Ashtadhyayi, a sutra-style treatise on Sanskrit grammar,[8][4][5] 3,959 "verses" or rules on linguistics, syntax and semantics in "eight chapters" which is the foundational text of the Vyākaraṇa branch of the Vedanga, the auxiliary scholarly disciplines of the Vedic period.[13][14][15] His aphoristic text attracted numerous bhashya (commentaries), of which Patanjali's Mahābhāṣya is the most famous in Hindu traditions.[16][17] His ideas influenced and attracted commentaries from scholars of other Indian religions such as Buddhism.[18]
Pāṇini's analysis of noun compounds still forms the basis of modern linguistic theories of compounding in Indian languages. Pāṇini's comprehensive and scientific theory of grammar is conventionally taken to mark the start of Classical Sanskrit.[19] His systematic treatise inspired and made Sanskrit the preeminent Indian language of learning and literature for two millennia.[17]
Pāṇini's theory of morphological analysis was more advanced than any equivalent Western theory before the 20th century.[20] His treatise is generative and descriptive, and has been compared to the Turing machine wherein the logical structure of any computing device has been reduced to its essentials using an idealized mathematical model.[4]
The name Pāṇini is a patronymic meaning descendant of Paṇina.[21] His full name was "Dakṣiputra Pāṇini" according to verses 1.75.13 and 3.251.12 of Patanjali's Mahābhāṣya, with the first part suggesting his mother's name was Dakṣi.[22]
This article is about an ancient Sanskrit scholar from the Indian subcontinent. For other uses, see Panini (disambiguation).
Pāṇini (pronounced [paːɳin̪i], fl. 4th century BCE[5] or "6th to 5th century BCE"[4] ) was an ancient Sanskrit philologist, grammarian, and a revered scholar in ancient India.[5][7][8] Considered the father of Indian linguistics,[9] Pāṇini likely lived in the northwest Indian subcontinent during the Mahajanapada era.[2] He is said to have been born in what is now Pakistan, in Shalatula near Attock, not far from Taxila, in what was then a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire following the Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley, which technically made him in all probability a Persian subject.[10][11][12]
Pāṇini
Native name
Sanskrit: पाणिनि
Notable work
Aṣṭādhyāyī (Classical Sanskrit)
Era
fl. 4th century BCE[1][2][3] or "13th to 12th century BCE"[dubious – discuss][4]
Region
Northwest Indian subcontinent[note 1]
Main interests
Grammar, Linguistics[6]
A 17th-century birch bark manuscript of Pāṇini's grammar treatise from Kashmir
Pāṇini is known for his text Ashtadhyayi, a sutra-style treatise on Sanskrit grammar,[8][4][5] 3,959 "verses" or rules on linguistics, syntax and semantics in "eight chapters" which is the foundational text of the Vyākaraṇa branch of the Vedanga, the auxiliary scholarly disciplines of the Vedic period.[13][14][15] His aphoristic text attracted numerous bhashya (commentaries), of which Patanjali's Mahābhāṣya is the most famous in Hindu traditions.[16][17] His ideas influenced and attracted commentaries from scholars of other Indian religions such as Buddhism.[18]
Pāṇini's analysis of noun compounds still forms the basis of modern linguistic theories of compounding in Indian languages. Pāṇini's comprehensive and scientific theory of grammar is conventionally taken to mark the start of Classical Sanskrit.[19] His systematic treatise inspired and made Sanskrit the preeminent Indian language of learning and literature for two millennia.[17]
Pāṇini's theory of morphological analysis was more advanced than any equivalent Western theory before the 20th century.[20] His treatise is generative and descriptive, and has been compared to the Turing machine wherein the logical structure of any computing device has been reduced to its essentials using an idealized mathematical model.[4]
The name Pāṇini is a patronymic meaning descendant of Paṇina.[21] His full name was "Dakṣiputra Pāṇini" according to verses 1.75.13 and 3.251.12 of Patanjali's Mahābhāṣya, with the first part suggesting his mother's name was Dakṣi.[22]
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