Panini : author of Paṇiniyām or Ashtādhyāyi, the oldest known grammar of Sanskrit. He received a large portion of his work by direct inspiration from Lord Shiva. [See European Enlightenment for American Prof. Whitney’s opinion of ‘native system of Sanskrit grammar’.]
... mispronounce — I, who, a diver In the oceaned wisdom of Panini — ROMA But sir, I am a simple woman: yet I wonder ... KESHAV You may — and gape, too — since your starless soul Will genuflect to dismal humans knowing Naught of Panini's godhood. ROMA ( diffident ) But I, sir, Was given to understand that your Panini Was the author of a grammar, was he not? How then... boy! And I Am ready to give you lessons in Panini And, through his medium, knowledge of Heaven and Earth. SRI CHAITANYA I am grateful. But, sir, I want only one Knowledge — of Krishna, the One who is the home And country of all knowledge, divine or earthly. KESHAV ( sententiously ) But that is wrong. You cannot, says Panini, Attain the skies save on the wings of learning... KESHAV Oh, hold your wagging tongue, wench! How I loathe This purblind hero-worship, bred by gossip! At seventeen to be reckoned a great scholar! Pooh! Have I not been poring over the great Panini from the day I learned to lisp, As everyone knows, and still — behold me, woman! I have but just won through to the initial status Of a fool! MURARI ( clapping his hands ) And how ...
... whatever admixture of fiction in the Mahabharata. It is also evident that the Mahabharata, not any "Bharata" or "Bharati Katha" but the Mahabharata existed before the age of Panini, and tho' the radical school bring down Panini [ incomplete ] Page 344 ...
... the conclusion arrived at that the two inscriptions are not contemporaneous; that the Greek comes much after the Aramaic and, indeed, explicates it: That the "Yavanani" script referred to by Panini is this Aramaic script going back to the pre-9th century B.C. period. The Kandahar II and Laghlman Aramaic inscriptions are then taken up and proven to be much before the 3rd century B.C. as... to this work the period close ro the pre-Gupta Junagarh Inscription of Rudradaman I in 479 B.C. A farther examination of the religious date shows that Kautilya's work is in the interval between Panini and Patanjali, but closer to the former on account of the reference to the prevalence of worship of the Nasatya and the bracketing of an evil spirit Krishna with Kamsa recalling the asura Krishna ...
... language was still near to its origins and had, not perhaps an intellectual, but still an instinctive memory of them. With less grammatical and as little etymological knowledge as Page 259 Panini and the other classical grammarians, the Rishis had better possession of the soul of Sanscrit speech. The different meanings of a word, though distinct, were not yet entirely separate; many links yet ...
... the Sanskrit ofKalidasa, the couplet refers to the greatness of Lord Shiva ( Ku- marasambhavam ): Atmeshvaranam na hi jatu bighnah samadhibheda-prabhavo bhavanti Page 22. Panini, who is referred to again and again, is acknow- ledged by all as the greatest grammarian of Sanskrit. Keshav's making a fetish of him is characteristic of many a Bengali pundit as was humourously ...
... in the second century B.C." And Agrawala's surmise is supported by J. Przyluski's conclusion on an independent inquiry: 2 "In India there was a Scythian (Śaka) immigration long before the time of Panini which caused a tribal welter in the Punjāb." History is full of complexities undreamt-of by historians wedded to a pet theory, in the light of which they want to simplify everything. There ...
... आरीः = आर्यः = doers of the work. (4) वेतु—go or manifest धीतिं Past participle in active sense —वाजप्रसूताः [6] [RV I.94 – 100.1] Hymns of Kutsa Angirasa (1) (a) अर्हते. S. पूज्याय Panini अर्ह्= पूजा, प्रशंसा सं महेम. सम्यक् पूजितं कुर्मः!! जातवेदसे. 3 senses (b) संसदि. S. संभजने प्रमतिः. S. प्रकृष्टा बुद्धिः Page 456 (2) साधति S. स्वाभिलषितं साधयति सुवीर्यं.. ...
... (3177-2700=) 477 B.C. The middle date is a most remarkable result. For, the century 1. Paper entitled "The First Point of Aśvini" (1934) quoted by V. S. Agrawala in India as Known to Panini (Lucknow, 1953), pp. 416-62, but misinterpreted by him owing to neglect of the reverse order of precession. Page 110 from 3177 to 3077 B..C. which it gives as the one during ...
... national opposition was organised... by the confederacy of the Kshudrakas and Malavas who united their military resources in a powerful allied army. Such a federal army was known even in the days of Panini who calls it, 'the Kshudraka-Mālavi-sena.' " A confederacy not of Ārattas but of rattas with a reference to the river Ganges could certainly be mentioned to Alexander in the natural course ...
... beyond the domain of the Upanishads. Besides, the few who engaged themselves in a discussion of the Vedas confined themselves more to the commentaries on the Vedas than the Vedas proper. The grammar of Panini, Nirukta, the science of derivation of meanings from the roots, Mimamsa, the commentaries on the Vedas and, above all, the commentaries made by Sayana Acharya made it so difficult to understand the ...
... his friends on life, literature and yoga, his literary criticism, his political comments on the burning questions of the day as the editor of Mother India, his researches into Vedic history, Panini's age and historicity, archaeological pre- history and even Einstein's Theory of Relativity prove beyond doubt his breadth of mind and poise, his creative energy and painstaking research in whatever ...
... arguments in a very convincing manner. Let me give an example from a recently published article of his. In the July 1994 issue of Mother India, Monthly Review of Culture, he has tried to determine Panini's time from his place, i.e. his home. 1 While the wealth of scholarship evident in it is mind-boggling, the way in which he has built up his thesis is nothing short of amazing. An instance of ...
... hymns; otherwise he will be as much at a loss as a reader of metaphysics who has not mastered the sense of the philosophical terms that are being constantly used or, let us say, one who tries to read Panini's Sutras without knowing the peculiar system of grammatical notation in which they are expressed. We have, however, already enough light upon this system of images to understand well enough what Vamadeva ...
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