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Earlier and Later Vartikakaras
19
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31
for 3T^, sr^ifr and 5W?T^r fox
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and 5 This fact, together with the statement in the Katha3 a follower of the saritsagara to the effect that he was
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1
Aindra school, makes
it
5 that he belonged to probable
school, of grammar different from 2 tinctly calls him a Southerner’.
Panini’s.
a
Patanjali dis-
‘
—
As observed 19. Vartikakaras before and; after Katyayana before (p. 28), Katyayana had several predecessors from Vliose works he may have taken many suggestions. In his Pratisakhya he refers to Sakatayana and Sakalya, 1 names alreadyquoted by Panini while in the vartikas he refers
Vajapyayana, Vyadi, 0 and Paushkarasadi, 7 and designates a number of others under the general appela%r%*. and so forth. 8 Some of these latter tion of must have been scholars who, like Katyayana himself, subjected the wording of the sutras of PiSnini to a critical examination. Vyadi we know, was the author of an ex-
by name
to
tensive work called Sangraha, referred to in the Mahabhashya 9 which is in fact based upon it.
Katyayana was followed in his task by a vast number The names of some of these are preserved for To that list we must add the author or us by Patanjali. of writers.
1
authors of the metrical vartikas(over 250) that are quoted in the Mahabashya. Some of these belong to Patanjali himself,
others probably to Katyayana, while
still
others, to
1 either the predecessors or successors of Katyayana.
and elsewhere
1
Taranga
2
MahabhSshya,
iv.
vol. 1,
p
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iii.
8
4
iii.
9
5
VSrtika 35 to
sreinrostf
6
VSrtika 45 to Vartika 3 to
8
Vsrtika 4 to
9
Vol,
i.
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8, line 2:
Sr? streraTW
i.
2. 64.
2. 64.
viii. 4. ii. 1.
p. 6, line 2
48.
1,
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and
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7
That
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