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Prātiśākhya and śikṣā

Linguistic Tradition Group

• Ancient Indian linguistics
  A group of linguistic traditions

Texts

• Atharvavedaprātiśākhya
  The Atharvavedaprātiśākhya, ascribed to Śaunaka, is the prātiśākhya work of the Atharvaveda.
• Pāṇinīyaśikṣā
  The Pāṇinīyaśikṣā is a work on Sanskrit phonetics. It is in several versions, which include a versified form and a sūtra form. It is attributed to Pāṇini or Piṅgala. It is one of the most influenti...
• Sāmavedaprātiśākhya
  The Sāmavedaprātiśākhya (a.k.a. Ṛktantra) is a prātiśākhya work of the Sāmaveda (Kauthumaśākhā). It is ascribed to Śākaṭāyana or Audavraji.
• Taittirīyaprātiśākhya
  The Taittirīyaprātiśākhya is a prātiśākhya work of the Kṛṣṇa (Black) Yajurveda.
• Vājasaneyiprātiśākhya
  The Vājasaneyiprātiśākhya, ascribed to Kātyāyana, is a prātiśākhya work of the Śukla (White) Yajurveda.
• Āpiśāliśikṣā
  The Āpiśāliśikṣā is a work on Sanskrit phonetics, possibly in the Pāṇinian grammatical school.
• Ṛgvedaprātiśākhya
  The Ṛgvedaprātiśākhya, ascribed to Śaunaka, is a prātiśākhya work of the Ṛgveda.

Authors

• Audavraji
  The Sāmavedaprātiśākhya (a.k.a. Ṛktantra) is ascribed to Śākaṭāyana or Audavraji.
• Kātyāyana
  The Vājasaneyiprātiśākhya is ascribed to Kātyāyana.
• Piṅgala
  The Pāṇinīyaśikṣā is attributed to Pāṇini or Piṅgala.
• Pāṇini
  Pāṇini (also referred to as Dākṣīputra and Śālāturīya), the author of the Aṣṭādhyāyī, was possibly from Gandhāra, which is the north-western area of the Indian subcontinent. In addition, the Pāṇinī...
• Āpiśali
  The Āpiśaliśikṣā is attributed to Āpiśali.
• Śaunaka
  The Ṛgvedaprātiśākhya and the Atharvavedaprātiśākhya are ascribed to Śaunaka.
• Śākaṭāyana
  The Sāmavedaprātiśākhya (a.k.a. Ṛktantra) is ascribed to Śākaṭāyana or Audavraji.

Linguistic Fields

• Phonetics
  Phonetics is the study of linguistic sound in its physical aspects, articulatory and auditory/acoustic. Already by an early period, the phonetic analysis of Sanskrit had reached an advanced stag...
• Phonology
  Phonology is the study of the (abstract) sound systems underlying the physical (articulatory and acoustic) aspects of speech. Phonology plays a central role in Pāṇini’s Aṣṭādhyāyī, which...