Fluidity of early grammatical categories in Sanskrit.: An article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society

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From the author: Grammatical categories as they appear in Panini's grammar may seem defined in unambiguous ways. However, the boundaries of Panini's categories can be unclear, and especially as we examine the Vedic padapathas and their treatment in the pratisakhyas, we begin to unearth a long period when many early scholastic traditions were trying out different grammatical formulations and when the understanding of causal factors for euphonic and other transformations was not entirely clear. Different Vedic traditions not only differ from each other, but there is often indecision manifest within a given tradition. The pratisakhyas openly refer to such ambiguity in the padapathas by using terms like sandeha, samsaya, anyaya, etc. This paper investigates evidence for this early grammatical experimentation.

Citation Details
Title: Fluidity of early grammatical categories in Sanskrit.
Author: Madhav M. Deshpande
Publication:The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2002
Publisher: American Oriental Society
Volume: 122 Issue: 2 Page: 244(4)

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