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Aṣṭādhyāyī

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Text Passages

• Aṣṭ. 1.2.45
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• Aṣṭ. 2.4.82
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• Aṣṭ. 4.1.2
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• Aṣṭ 2.1.4
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• Aṣṭ 3.3.10
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• Aṣṭ 3.4.26
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• Aṣṭ. 1.1.3
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• Aṣṭ. 1.1.51
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• Aṣṭ. 1.1.60
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• Aṣṭ. 1.2.64
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• Aṣṭ. 1.2.67
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• Aṣṭ. 1.2.67
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• Aṣṭ. 1.2.69
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• Aṣṭ. 1.2.69
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• Aṣṭ. 1.2.70
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• Aṣṭ. 1.2.71
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• Aṣṭ. 1.2.72
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• Aṣṭ. 1.3.13
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• Aṣṭ. 1.3.63
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• Aṣṭ. 1.4.1-2
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• Aṣṭ. 1.4.105
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• Aṣṭ. 1.4.107
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• Aṣṭ. 1.4.108
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• Aṣṭ. 1.4.2
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• Aṣṭ. 1.4.23-55
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• Aṣṭ. 1.4.37
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• Aṣṭ. 1.4.38
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• Aṣṭ. 1.4.49
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• Aṣṭ. 1.4.50
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• Aṣṭ. 1.4.51
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• Aṣṭ. 1.4.52
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• Aṣṭ. 2.1.1
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• Aṣṭ. 2.1.2
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• Aṣṭ. 2.2.29
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• Aṣṭ. 2.2.38
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• Aṣṭ. 2.3.1
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• Aṣṭ. 2.3.13
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• Aṣṭ. 2.3.14
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• Aṣṭ. 2.3.18
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• Aṣṭ. 2.3.2
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• Aṣṭ. 2.3.28
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• Aṣṭ. 2.3.3
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• Aṣṭ. 2.3.36
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• Aṣṭ. 2.3.46
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• Aṣṭ. 2.3.52
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• Aṣṭ. 2.4.41
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• Aṣṭ. 2.4.42–44
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• Aṣṭ. 2.4.81
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• Aṣṭ. 2.4.85
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• Aṣṭ. 3.1.33
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• Aṣṭ. 3.1.35–39
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• Aṣṭ. 3.1.40
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• Aṣṭ. 3.1.67
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• Aṣṭ. 3.1.87
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• Aṣṭ. 3.2.124-126
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• Aṣṭ. 3.3.148-151
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• Aṣṭ. 3.3.159
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• Aṣṭ. 3.3.167
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• Aṣṭ. 3.4.1
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• Aṣṭ. 3.4.21
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• Aṣṭ. 3.4.23
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• Aṣṭ. 3.4.65
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• Aṣṭ. 3.4.66
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• Aṣṭ. 3.4.67
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• Aṣṭ. 3.4.69
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• Aṣṭ. 3.4.84
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• Aṣṭ. 5.3.60
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• Aṣṭ. 6.1.66
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• Aṣṭ. 7.3.77
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• Aṣṭ. 7.3.78–9
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• Aṣṭ. 7.3.84
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• Aṣṭ. 7.4.50–52
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• Aṣṭ. 8.1.20–23
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• Aṣṭ. 8.1.29
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• Aṣṭ. 8.1.63
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• Aṣṭ. 8.1.66
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References

• Bauer, L (2006), Compound.
  Miscellaneous
• Böhtlingk, Otto (ed.) (1998), Pāṇini’s Grammatik. Herausgegeben, übersetzt, erläutert und mit verschiedenen Indices versehen. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
  Book
• Katre, Sumitra Mangesh (1968, 1968, 1969), Dictionary of Pāṇini. Poona: Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute.
  Book
• Ramanathsharma (2002, 2000, 2002, 1999, 2001, 2003), The Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini. Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal.
  Book

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...
• Compounding
  A compound can be defined in very basic terms as a word that is made up of two or more words. Compounds thus show properties of both morphological formation (the whole constitutes a word) and sy...
• Control
  In modern linguistics, the term control refers to a construction (or family of constructions) in which there is coreference between an argument of a matrix predicate and an argument of...
• Coordination
  The term coordination refers to the juxtaposition of two or more words or phrases under a single phrasal node, often linked by a conjunction such as and or or. Unlike...
• Ellipsis
  The term 'ellipsis' in grammatical theory most generally refers to linguistic material being omitted, deleted, or simply left unpronounced. The omitted material is needed for the full interpreta...
• Grammar
  1. The term 'grammar' As discussed by Aarts (2006: 113), the term grammar can be used in a variety of ways. In a broad sense, grammar can refer to syntax and morpholo...
• Lexical vs Functional Categories
  1. Introduction The distinction between lexical and functional categories is a well-known one in Western linguistics. It is both long-standing (possibly dating back...
• Objecthood
  1. Introduction Like the closely related notion of 'subject', the notion of 'object' is an ancient one in the Western linguistic tradition, and in modern Western linguistics 'object',...
• Passive
  1. Introduction The term 'passive' refers to an argument structure alternation or operation common in languages with nominative-accusative morphosyntactic alignment, and to verb forms...
• Periphrasis
  1. Introduction The term 'periphrasis' broadly refers to constructions in which a syntactic sequence of two (or more, at least in principle) words can be considered to represent the in...
• Relative clauses
  1. Introduction Research on relative clauses in modern Western linguistics includes both more descriptive/typological angles such as distinguishing the different semantic and syntactic...
• Subjecthood
  1 Introduction The notion 'subject' is an ancient one in the Western linguistic tradition, going back to at least Aristotle. In modern Western linguistics, the notion of 'subject' rema...
• Suppletion
  1. Introduction Although its original reference is to the diachronic process by which two previously unrelated words or word stems come to be associated, resulting in a new, mixed para...

Texts

• Bhāṣāvṛtti
  The Bhāṣāvṛtti is a relatively concise partial commentary on the Aṣṭādhyāyī, not commenting on the sūtras treating the Vedic language. Its author is Puruṣottamadeva.
• Kātantrasūtra
  The Kātantrasūtra (a.k.a. Kalāpasūtra) is a foundational text of the Kātantra grammatical school, a non-Pāṇinian grammatical school in the Sanskrit grammatical tradition (vyākaraṇa). The Kātantrasū...
• Kāśikāvṛtti
  The Kāśikāvṛtti (a.k.a. Kāśikā) is (one of) the most important commentaries on the Aṣṭādhyāyī. It is the oldest extant full commentary on the Aṣṭādhyāyī. It comments on the Aṣṭādhyāyī following its...
• Uṇādisūtra
  The Uṇādisūtra is a set of sūtras giving primary suffixes (kṛt) and deriving words not found taught in the Aṣṭādhyāyī. Pāṇini has mentioned the term uṇādi in two of his Aṣṭādhyāyī sūtras, namely 3....
• Vyākaraṇamahābhāṣya
  The Vyākaraṇamahābhāṣya (a.k.a. Mahābhāṣya, Bhāṣya) consists of Kātyāyāna's vārttikas (short sūtra-like statements commenting on Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī) and Patañjali's commentary on both Kātyāyāna's...
• Śabdakaustubha
  The Śabdakaustubha is a commentary on the Aṣṭādhyāyī. The extant text of the Śabdakaustubha covers the following portions of the Aṣṭādhyāyī: 1.1−4, 2.1−4, 3.1−2, 4.1−4. The Śabdakaustubha has recei...

Authors

• 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...

Linguistic Traditions

• Pāṇinīya vyākaraṇa
  Pāṇinīya vyākaraṇa (Pāṇinian grammar) refers to the Sanskrit grammatical tradition including and based on Pāṇini's grammar the Aṣṭādhyāyī (c. 400 BC). The Aṣṭādhyāyī...

Linguistic Fields

• 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...