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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.
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Linguistic Notions

  • Argument structure
    1. Introduction Argument structure concerns the processes and relations involved in the syntactic realization of the semantic dependents of a predicate. Crucial notions in many treatme...

Texts

  • Candrasūtra
    The Candrasūtra (a.k.a. Cāndravyākaraṇa) is a foundational text of the Cāndra grammatical school, a non-Pāṇinian grammatical school in the Sanskrit grammatical tradition (vyākaraṇa). The Candrasūtr...
  • Candravṛtti
    The Candravṛtti is an auto-commentary on the Candrasūtra. The Candravṛtti is a foundational text of the Cāndra grammatical school, a non-Pāṇinian grammatical school in the Sanskrit grammatical trad...

Linguistic Traditions

  • Apāṇinīya vyākaraṇa
    A linguistic tradition
Cite this page:
Shen, Yiming (2021). 'Candragomin'. . First published on 04 Aug 2021. Last updated on 04 Aug 2021.
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