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Sharada Publishing House Ashtadhyayisutrapatha (With Vartikas Ganas Dhatupatha Paniniya Siksha Paribhashapatha And Sutra Index) by Sankar Ram Shastri
The oldest grammarian of India,whose complete work has come down to us,is Panini,who is also, in many respects, the greatest of all Indian grammarians. His monumental work is entitled Astadhyayi,lit. He has developed a special grammatical language with its own technical terms and indications of each letter, which is termed buy a modern scholar as 'metalanguage'There are manuy vulgate editions of the works of Panini. It has been found from experience that the edition prepared by C. Sankararama Sastri and published as No 2 of the Balamanorama series by Balamonorama press, Madras in 1937 (2nd ed). Is by far the best one. It not only presents a very accurate text of the Astadhyayi the Vartikas, the Ganapatha and the Dhatupatha, but places all the authentic vartikas and ganas below the relevant sutras, Placing the ganas just below the sutras which refer to them with the words such as adi or prabharti proves to be very useful to the students. The present edition is a reprint of the Balamanorama edition with an elacorate introduction, by Dr. Ratna Basu,of the University of Calcutta,Bringing out the greatness of the tradition of grammatical literature in India in general and of the contribution of Panini to the science of the Sanskrit language, in particular. An Index of the sutras has been appended to this edition to facilitate ready referencing.