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Katyayana
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His Work
29
about two to three centuries would not by any means be too great an interval that we can suppose to have elapsed
between them.
we cannot
In the present state
our knowledge
o£
therefore, unfortunately, arrive at a greater
approximation than 500-350 B. limit if the relation of
C.,
nearer to the latter
Katyayana with the Nandas men-
.1-
tioned in Kathasaritsagara has any basis in fact. Nature of Katyayans’s work
.18.
t
vartikas, are
meant
— Katyayana’s
work, the
to correct, modify, or
supplement the wherever they were or had become partially or totally inapplicable. There are two works of 2 iila. which aim at this object. The earlier is the Vajasa-nfivi q Etatiaakhya, a work dealing with the grammar and orthography of the Vajasaneyi-Samhita. Being limited by the rules of Panini
1
nature of his subject to Vedic forms
Katyayana has herein given
of.
his criticisms
language only, on such of the
sutras of Panini as fell within his
province. Taking up the suggestion which dawned upon him probably in the course of his Pratisakhya, Katyayana next subjected Panini’s Ashtadhyayi to a searching criticism.
Since here
was not to explain Panini but find
faults in his
his object
grammar, he has
left
appeared
Of the nearly 4,000
1
valid.
Kstyayam
is
credited
authorship of a sutra style,
third
work
(published
Ciraukhamba
series), but it
with the in
Katyayana
the
Sranta* sutras the
unnoticed
in
Sanskrit
has nothing to
do with grammar. It might have given Katyayana practice
that 2
writing
in
sutras,
but
is all
posterior to
Panini
L
that
and based upon
clear
from the fact
many
of the sutras
is
him Katyayana
sutras that to
sutras
tnere given are indentical with
those of Panini.
ii.
The
pra-
tyaharas and anubandhas are in iii.
most cases those of Pacini,
Where
there are changes
they are
improvements upon Panini, such improvements as
Katyayana
later
embodied
with occasional changes for the better in his vartikas. gee
That the Vajasaneyi-PrEti^ikhya is
many
Goldstiicker, Panini, pp. 199 (Reprint, pp. 153) and the fol-
lowing.
