Kātantrasūtra

Text Type

• Treatise
  A type of text

Text Passages

• K 3.1.3
  From the text: Kātantrasūtra
• K 3.1.4
  From the text: Kātantrasūtra
• K. 2.4.10-15
  From the text: Kātantrasūtra
• K. 2.4.17-42
  From the text: Kātantrasūtra
• K. 2.4.8
  From the text: Kātantrasūtra
• K. 3.1.30
  From the text: Kātantrasūtra

References

• Eggeling, Julius (ed.) (1874 (fasciculi 1−4), 1878 (fasciculi 5−6)), The Kātantra. With the commentary of Durgasiṃha. Calcutta: The Asiatic Society of Bengal.
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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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...

Texts

• Aṣṭādhyāyī
  The Aṣṭādhyāyī is the foundational sūtra text of the Pāṇinian grammatical school, and also (one of) the most important text in the Sanskrit grammatical tradition (vyākaraṇa) and the Indian literary...
• Durgasiṃhavṛtti
  The Durgasiṃhavṛtti is a commentary on Śarvavarman's Kātantrasūtra. It is a foundational text of the Kātantra grammatical school, a non-Pāṇinian grammatical school in the Sanskrit grammatical tradi...

Authors

• Śarvavarman
  Śarvavarman was the founder of the Kātantra grammatical school, a non-Pāṇinian grammatical school in the Sanskrit grammatical tradition (vyākaraṇa).

Linguistic Traditions

• Apāṇinīya vyākaraṇa
  Apāṇinīya vyākaraṇa (non-Pāṇinian grammar) refers to the various Sanskrit grammatical traditions based on root texts other than Pāṇini’s Aṣṭādhyāyī. The extant non-Pāṇinian gra...