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Candragomin

Candragomin (a.k.a. Candrācārya) was possibly a Buddhist from Bengal. Candragomin was the founder of the Cāndra grammatical school, a non-Pāṇinian grammatical school in the Sanskrit grammatical tradition (vyākaraṇa).

Name

Candragomin

Alternative Name

Candrācārya

Location

Bengal

Date Active

c. 450 A.D.

References

Liebich, Bruno (ed.) (1918), Candra-vṛtti. Der Original-Kommentar Candragomin’s zu seinem grammatischen Sūtra. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus.

Linguistic Notions

Argument structure

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Texts

The Cāndrasūtra (aka Cāndravyākaraṇa) is a foundational text of the Cāndra grammatical school, a non-Pāṇinian grammatical school in the Sanskrit grammatical tradition (vyākaraṇa). The Cāndrasūtra i...

Authors

Dharmadāsa is the author of the Cāndravṛtti.

Linguistic Traditions

Apāṇinīya vyākaraṇa

Apāṇinīya vyākaraṇa (non-Pāṇinian grammar) refers to the various Sanskrit grammatical traditions based on root texts other than Pāṇini’s Aṣṭādhyāyī. The extant non-Pāṇinian gra...