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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 Candrasūtra is believed to be based on Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī, with changes such as the incorporation of a vārttika of Kātyāyana as a sūtra into the Candrasūtra. The author of the Candrasūtra is Candragomin.

Alternative Name

Cāndravyākaraṇa

Approximate Date of Creation

450 A.D.

Location

Bengal

Author

Candragomin

Text Type

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References

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

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

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...

Authors

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 tra...

Linguistic Traditions

Apāṇinīya vyākaraṇa

A linguistic tradition