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PANINI'S SCHOOL Panini's work became widely influential, and he later Sanskrit grammarians added to the work by considering various issues such as the nature of the word-meaning mapping, processes of linguistic acquistition, etc. However, his is not the earliest thinking on grammar, as is known from references in the Ashtadhyayi itself. His work is still referred to in the teaching of Sanskrit today. Panini's grammar consists of several parts, of which the Ashtadhyayi, containing the morphological rules, forms the core:
Commentators on Panini and some of their views:
Predecessors referred to in Ashtadhyayi include Sakatayana , and Gargya . Other Indian linguists :
EARLY ACCOUNTS The earliest external historical accounts of Indian grammatical tradition is from Chinese Buddhist pilgrims to India from the 7th Century .
The ''Indica'' of Abu Raihan Al-Biruni (973-1048), dating to ca. 1030 contains detailed descriptions of all branches of Hindu science. Similar to the Chinese Buddhists, Tibetan Buddhism aroused interest in India among its followers. Taranatha (born 1573) in his treatise of the history of Buddhism in India (completed around 1608 ) speaks about Panini and provides some information about grammars, but not in the manner of a person familiar with their content. BEGINNING OF WESTERN SCHOLARSHIP 19TH CENTURY
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