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Systems of Sanskrit Grammar

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while elsewhere it gives us the information that the grammar of Kasakritsna consisted of siitras thrown into three Adhyfyas.’ Kaiyyata on v. 1.21 actually gives portions of the text of both these grammarians*—and this is about all the information that we possess regarding these two ancient grammarians. To later writers like Bopadeva® they are probably little more than mere names. s 9. The so-called Alndra treatises.—The case stands a little © different with Indra or Indragomin. Panini nowhere mentions this name except under the general appelation of ‘the easterners’, An oft-quoted passage from the fourth tarafiga of the Kathasaritsagara informs us that the school which Panini supplanted was known as the Aindra school, and numbered aniong its adlierents Katya- yana alias Vararuchi, Vyadi, and Indradatta. Hiuen Tsang the Chinese pilgrim, and Taranatha the Tibetian historian, both relate a similar story, the latter adding that the Chandra vyakarana agrees with Panini, and the Kalapa vyakarana with the Aindra. Taranatha also states that God Karttikeya revealed the Aindra vyakarana to Sapta- {not Sarva-)varman (compare section 64, below). Further corroborative evidence is furnished by a passage’ from the Taittiriya-sarbhita (vii. 4.7), which speaks of Indra as the first of grammarians. To ali this Dr. Burnell

1 Compare the Kagika on y. 1, 58, the subject of amftsitt andiv, 2.65: Rarageny! 2 enfteemageenieesa gf far areca 1 Another bit sages watanars t of information about saft- 8 Compore, geqare: areaeernta- an, which [ owe to Profes- adit ermerea: | rfid sor Pathak, is that he changed ear SyeecenGemiBant: tl from the root arg ‘to be? tow, Com- Bopadeva’s Mugdhabodha. pare anftr warerRae, in the 4 arg? qeremeqrparergg 18 Rar Mahabbishye on i. 8, 22. seqraefimnt tt arg sargeate t dinendrabnddbi and Sakatnyans seseenee LATER sree Sa (ic 4. 38 ) supply often: as want!