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Pāṇini

Type Figure Region Gandhara Time c. -520–-460 Also known as the grammarian Pāṇini

Pāṇini (c. 520–460 BCE) was ancient India's greatest Sanskrit grammarian, traditionally regarded as active in the Gandhara region.…

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  1. c. -520–-490Gandhara · GandharaPāṇini is traditionally placed in the Gandhara region; according to later commentaries he studied under earlier grammarians, systematically researching Vedic and Sanskrit materials and accumulating the scholarly foundation for compiling a normative grammatical system.
  2. c. -490–-460Northwestern India · GandharaPāṇini completed the Aṣṭādhyāyī, giving roughly four thousand grammatical rules and meta-rules in highly compressed sutra form, covering inflection, derivation, and syntactic derivation, accompanied by auxiliary works such as the Dhātupāṭha, which became the authoritative paradigm for later Sanskrit studies.

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