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Pāṇini

Type Figure Region South Asia Time c. -520–-460 Also known as Pāṇini、Panini、帕尼尼

Pāṇini (c. 520–460 BCE) was ancient India's greatest Sanskrit grammarian. His Aṣṭādhyāyī systematically describes Sanskrit morphology through roughly…

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  1. c. -520–-490Salatura · Northwestern IndiaBorn in the Gandhara region of northwestern India, he studied Sanskrit and early grammatical traditions from childhood, apprenticing under local grammatical schools, laying the foundation for his later systematic grammar.
  2. c. -490–-470Northwestern India · Northwestern IndiaHe composed the Aṣṭādhyāyī, describing Sanskrit inflection through roughly four thousand Sanskrit rules and metalinguistic symbols, creating a highly formalized grammatical system that surpassed earlier scattered grammatical works.
  3. c. -470–-460Indian subcontinent · IndiaHis grammatical system was annotated and expounded by later scholars, becoming the orthodoxy of traditional Indian linguistics and profoundly influencing the linguistic analysis and educational transmission of Buddhist and Hindu scriptures.

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