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.
Bālamanoramā
The Bālamanoramā is a commentary for the less advanced on Bhaṭṭojidīkṣita's Siddhāntakaumudī. Its author is Vāsudevadīkṣita.
Bṛhacchabdenduśekhara
The Bṛhacchabdenduśekhara is a commentary on Bhaṭṭojidīkṣita's Siddhāntakaumudī (a commentary on Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī). A younger and shorter version of the Bṛhacchabdenduśekhara is the Laghuśabdend...
Cāndravṛtti
The Cāndravṛtti is a commentary on the Cāndrasūtra. The Cāndravṛtti is a foundational text of the Cāndra grammatical school, a non-Pāṇinian grammatical school in the Sanskrit grammatical tradition...
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...
Gaṇaratnamahodadhi
A grammar work, consisting of a metrical enumeration of the words in the Gaṇapāṭha of Pāṇini, written by Vardhamāna, a Jain grammarian of the 12th century, who is believed to have been one of the s...
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...
Laghuśabdaratna
The Laghuśabdaratna (a.k.a. Śabdaratna) is a commentary on Bhaṭṭojidīkṣita's Prauḍhamanoramā (a commentary on Bhaṭṭojidīkṣita's own Siddhāntakaumudī). It is a shorter version of Haridīkṣita's Bṛhac...
Laghuśabdenduśekhara
The Laghuśabdenduśekhara is a commentary on Bhaṭṭojidīkṣita's Siddhāntakaumudī (a commentary on Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī). It is a younger and shorter version of Nāgeśabhaṭṭa's own Bṛhacchabdenduśekhara...
Mahābhāṣyapradīpa
The Mahābhāṣyapradīpa (a.k.a. Pradīpa) is the oldest extant full commentary on the Mahābhāṣya. It has received several commentaries, e.g. Nāgeśabhaṭṭa's Mahābhāṣyapradīpoddyota.
Mahābhāṣyapradīpoddyota
The Mahābhāṣyapradīpoddyota (a.k.a. Uddyota) is a commentary on Kaiyaṭa's Mahābhāṣyapradīpa (a commentary on the Mahābhāṣya). Its author is Nāgeśabhaṭṭa.
Mādhavīyadhātuvṛtti
The Mādhavīyadhātuvṛtti is a commentary on the Pāṇinian Dhātupāṭha. It gives the technical derivation (prakriyā) of finite and non-finite forms of the verbal roots in that dhātupāṭha. Some believe...
Nyāsa
The Nyāsa (a.k.a. Kāśikāvivaraṇapañcikā or Kāśikāvivaraṇapañjikā) is the oldest extant commentary on the Kāśikāvṛtti, a commentary on the Aṣṭādhyāyī. Its author is Jinendrabuddhi.
Nyāyasiddhāntamuktāvalī
The Nyāyasiddhāntamuktāvalī (a.k.a. Siddhāntamuktāvalī, Muktāvalī) is an auto-commentary on the Kārikāvalī. The author of the Nyāyasiddhāntamuktāvalī is Viśvanāthapañcānana.
Padamañjarī
The Padamañjarī is an important commentary on the Kāśikāvṛtti, a commentary on the Aṣṭādhyāyī. Its author is Haradatta.
Paddhati
The Paddhati of Vṛṣabhadeva (a.k.a. Harivṛṣabha) is a commentary on the first book of the Vākyapadīya.
Prakriyākaumudī
The Prakriyākaumudī is a commentary on the Aṣṭādhyāyī. It is one of the earliest Aṣṭādhyāyī commentaries with a thematic reordering of the sūtras and may have served as a model for Bhaṭṭojidīkṣita'...
Prakriyākaumudīprakāśa
The Prakriyākaumudīprakāśa (a.k.a. Prakāśa) is a commentary on Rāmacandraśeṣa's Prakriyākaumudī. Its author is Kṛṣṇaśeṣa.
Prakriyākaumudīprasāda
The Prakriyākaumudīprasāda (a.k.a. Prasāda) is a commentary on the Prakriyākaumudī. Its author is Viṭṭhala.
Prakriyāsarvasva
The Prakriyāsarvasva is a commentary on the Aṣṭādhyāyī.
Prakīrṇaprakāśa
Helārāja's Prakīrṇaprakāśa is a commentary on the third book of the Vākyapadīya.
Prauḍhamanoramā
The Prauḍhamanoramā (a.k.a. Manoramā) is Bhaṭṭojidīkṣita's commentary on his own Siddhāntakaumudī, a commentary on the Aṣṭādhyāyī with thematic reordering of the sūtras.
Rāmāśramī
The Rāmāśramī (a.k.a. Vyākhyāsudhā) of Bhānujidīkṣita is a commentary on the Amarakośa. This commentary gives details of grammatical information (e.g. technical derivation) of the words in the Amar...
Rūpāvatāra
The Rūpāvatāra is the oldest extant commentary on the Aṣṭādhyāyī with a thematic reordering of the sūtras; thus, the Rūpāvatāra may have provided a model for later, more renowned works like the Pra...
Samanvayapradīpa and Samanvayapradīpasaṃketa
The Samanvayapradīpa, in verse, is a practical grammar mainly on Sanskrit syntax. Following the Samanvayadiś closely in structure and content, the Samanvayapradīpa is a versified version of the Sam...
Tattvabodhinī
The Tattvabodhinī is a commentary on Bhaṭṭojidīkṣita's Siddhāntakaumudī. Its author is Jñānendrasarasvatī.
Vaiyākaraṇabhūṣaṇasāra
The Vaiyākaraṇabhūṣaṇasāra, a shorter version of the Vaiyākaraṇabhūṣaṇa, is a commentary on the set of verses called Vaiyākaraṇasiddhāntakārikā authored by Bhaṭṭojidīkṣita. The Vaiyākaraṇabhūṣaṇasā...
Vaiyākaraṇasiddhāntakaumudī
The Vaiyākaraṇasiddhāntakaumudī (a.k.a. Siddhāntakaumudī) is one of the most important and popular commentaries on the Aṣṭādhyāyī. Like the older works e.g. the Rūpāvatāra and the Prakriyākaumudī,...
Vedārthaprakāśa
Sāyaṇa's Vedārthaprakāśa (a.k.a. Ṛgvedabhāṣya) is one of the earliest extant Sanskrit commentaries on the Ṛgveda.
Vyaktivivekavicāra
The Vyaktivivekavicāra is a commentary by Ruyyaka on the Vyaktiviveka.
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...
Śābarabhāṣya
The Śābarabhāṣya (a.k.a. Mīmāṃsāsūtrabhāṣya) is the earliest extant commentary on Jaimini's Mīmāṃsāsūtra. It is one of the foundational texts of the indigenous ritual hermeneutics tradition (mīmāṃs...
Ṭīkā
Puṇyarāja's Ṭīkā is a commentary on the second book of the Vākyapadīya.