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Āpiśali

The Āpiśaliśikṣā is attributed to Āpiśali.

Name

Āpiśali

Date Active

Possibly predating the Mahābhāṣya (on dating the Āpiśaliśikṣā, see e.g. Van Nooten 1973: 409)

References

van Nooten, B.A. (1973), 'The structure of a Sanskrit phonetic treatise.' Acta et commentationes Universitatis Tartuensis: Oriental Studies 2.2: 408-436.

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Āpiśāliśikṣā

The Āpiśāliśikṣā is a work on Sanskrit phonetics, possibly in the Pāṇinian grammatical school.

Linguistic Traditions

Prātiśākhya and śikṣā

Śikṣā (literally ‘instruction’, particularly ‘instruction in reciting’) is the native tradition of phonetics, teaching proper articulation and pronunciation of Vedic texts. Traditionall...