Stamp in honour of Vedic Mathematician Panini

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Srinivasan Kalyanaraman <kalyan97@g...> wrote:

Stamp Issued to Honor Sanskrit Grammarian Panini

http://www.pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=3583

 

DELHI, INDIA, August 30, 2004: The Department of Posts has released

a

postage stamp today in commemoration of India's Heritage in Grammar

and

Mathematics which was influenced by the accomplishments of Panini,

one

of the greatest grammarians of all time whose work revolutionized

the

use of language not only in India but also in the rest of the world.

 

The stamp is in the denomination of Rs. 5. Panini, whose lifetime

was

believed to be between 520 BC and 460 BC, was born in Shalatula, a

town

near Taxilla on the Indus river in the present-day North-West

Province

in Pakistan. Panini's brilliant account of the structure of the

Sanskrit language seeks to provide a complete, maximally concise and

theoretically consistent analysis. It unfolds a theory of human

language where the infinite language is generated by finite grammar

which modern linguistic acknowledges as the most complete,

generative

grammar of any language yet written.

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