Panini sutras memorized by 3 year-olds.

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Two additions to the comments made by Professors Madhav M. Deshpande and

Michael Witzel on this topic;

 

An accented text of the A.s.taadhyaayii is printed at the end of: Dahiya,

Yajanveer.1995. Paa.nini as a Linguist: Ideas and Patterns. Delhi: Eastern

Book Linkers. This book is written in problematic English. The author's

logic is frequently not clear. His remark on p. 213 ("I have, therefore,

marked the accent in the original text of the AP [= A.s.taadhyaayii of

Paa.nini]) may be interpreted to mean that the author reconstructed the

accents (lost, in his view, by Pata;njali's time). However, the remark does

not rule out the possibility that he (Dahiya) borrowed the marks from some

other printed or manuscript source known to him. A comparison with the

sources mentioned by Deshpande and Witzel for an accented text of the

A.s.taadhyaayii is called for.

 

Mnemonic ;sr:nkhalaas are found also at the end of the adhyaayas of the

Nigha.n.tu and the Nirukta.

 

ashok aklujkar

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INDOLOGY, Ashok Aklujkar <aklujkar@I...> wrote:

> Mnemonic ;sr:nkhalaas are found also at the end of the adhyaayas of

the

> Nigha.n.tu and the Nirukta.

>

 

 

VA: On this topic, I read in a work by Pandit Yudhishthira Mimamsaka

that the Pingala sutras are also transmitted orally amongst

Maharashtrian Rgvedin Brahmins. Is there a printed edition of the

same?

Is there a laghu and a brhad paaTha of these sutras?

 

Finally, which is considered the oldest bhasya on the chhandasutras?

Halayudha? In his works, Swami Dayananda Sarasvati recommends the

study of 'pingalacharyakrta channdasutras together with the bhashya'.

Did he mean an autocommentary? Does any exist? (However, upon

researching his private correspondence with various other Pandits, he

seems to quote Halayudha).

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Vishal