Panini

Examples of Panini in the following topics:

• Sanskrit

  • Around 500 BCE, the ancient scholar Panini standardized the grammar of Vedic Sanskrit, including 3,959 rules of syntax, semantics, and morphology (the study of words and how they are formed and relate to each other).
  • Panini’s Astadhyayi is the most important of the surviving texts of Vyakarana, the linguistic analysis of Sanskrit, consisting of eight chapters laying out his rules and their sources.
  • Through this standardization, Panini helped create what is now known as Classical Sanskrit.
  • The scholar Panini standardized the grammar of Vedic Sanskrit to create Classical Sanskrit.