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    - Deeds are accomplished through effort, not ambitions alone. Lions do not eat deer that enter their mouths while sleeping. - Panini's Ashtadhyayi is a foundational text of Sanskrit grammar from the 6th century BCE containing sutras organized into 8 chapters and 4 sections. It describes the structure of Sanskrit in a terse, algorithmic style. - Later texts like the Mahabhashya of Patanjali and others provide commentary and analysis to explain Panini's dense sutras and the grammatical system developed. These texts helped establish and teach Sanskrit grammar.

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    - Deeds are accomplished through effort, not ambitions alone. Lions do not eat deer that enter their mouths while sleeping. - Panini's Ashtadhyayi is a foundational text of Sanskrit grammar from the 6th century BCE containing sutras organized into 8 chapters and 4 sections. It describes the structure of Sanskrit in a terse, algorithmic style. - Later texts like the Mahabhashya of Patanjali and others provide commentary and analysis to explain Panini's dense sutras and the grammatical system developed. These texts helped establish and teach Sanskrit grammar.

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    - Deeds are accomplished through effort, not ambitions alone. Lions do not eat deer that enter their mouths while sleeping. - Panini's Ashtadhyayi is a foundational text of Sanskrit grammar from the 6th century BCE containing sutras organized into 8 chapters and 4 sections. It describes the structure of Sanskrit in a terse, algorithmic style. - Later texts like the Mahabhashya of Patanjali and others provide commentary and analysis to explain Panini's dense sutras and the grammatical system developed. These texts helped establish and teach Sanskrit grammar.

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    - Deeds are accomplished through effort, not ambitions alone. Lions do not eat deer that enter their mouths while sleeping. - Panini's Ashtadhyayi is a foundational text of Sanskrit grammar from the 6th century BCE containing sutras organized into 8 chapters and 4 sections. It describes the structure of Sanskrit in a terse, algorithmic style. - Later texts like the Mahabhashya of Patanjali and others provide commentary and analysis to explain Panini's dense sutras and the grammatical system developed. These texts helped establish and teach Sanskrit grammar.

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    Deeds are not accomplished by means of ambitions but by means of effort alone.

    Indeed, deer don't enter the mouth of the sleeping lion.


    Minimum unit is a word in syntax.
    SAMHITA - memorization methods.
    Mulam
    next padapatha
    krama
    shikha
    mala
    ratha
    danda
    dvaja
    ganA
    - Etymology Book by Yaska
    naama
    aakhyaata
    upasarga
    nipaata
    before Panini (6th cent. BCE)
    - Panini
    8 chapters
    4 subsections (paadaah)
    - sutra upa
    mAtrA
    laghu is 1
    guru is 2
    any consonant is 1/2
    shortness is the basic principle of sutra literature
    the form of the text is more like a software program
    it is not a sanskrit primer
    Principles of understanding the text:
    1. - shortening (e.g. or )
    2. () - letters with a purpose in the system but not in the language (e.g. vs.
    ) and each of them specificies particular roles

    3. - when a word is assumed to be repeated throughout the text until another


    competent word appears or as designated by a rule (e.g. )
    Even the declensional cases have idiomatic meanings in Paninis Text.
    kim vaktavyam
    grammar
    varttikam
    mahabhasya - patanjali
    kashikA vRddhiH - jayaditya vAmana - gloss with examples
    prakriyA - process, describes the process of word derivation, although descriptive it has
    become prescriptive, rearrangements of paninian sutras, with respect to a rupa-siddhi
    PrakiyA KaumudI - very famous text 16th or 17th century
    This and other later texts aim at teaching Sanskrit rather than merely
    documenting its rules.
    SiddhAnta granthAH
    vyAkaraNaM - the face of the vedas (6 angas)
    vAkyapadIya - this and later texts began moving beyond the superficial elements
    of grammar and began to wonder about the processes of understanding.
    notion of abda brahman
    Abdabodha - how cognition takes place through works
    SUTRA TYPES
    1. - definitions (definitions)
    2. - axioms (metalinguistic rules)
    e.g.
    If there are two rules applicable at the same time, the later rule is applied.
    (Rules continuously increase in strength)
    e.g.
    -- (objects with markers before objects with markers)
    e.g. (6th class indicates substitution)
    (When it is 7th case, the former is indicated,
    when something is indicated by 5th case, then it is the later one)
    e.g. Whatever is stated here is unestablished for (does not apply
    to) the preceding.
    3. - statements in the contrived language
    According to increasing rule strength, the text is divided into two parts:
    a. the first 7 and the first of the 8th section
    b. the three remaining padas

    (Whatever is stated here is unestablished for (does not apply to)


    the preceding.)
    In the first section, rule application can jump around, while in the second, it moves only
    in increasing order toward the end of the section.

    SUP and TING:


    sup - declensional suffixes
    - - - (nominative)
    ting - verbal suffixes



    that which is as brief as possible not unclear, possessed of essence, covering all sides
    of the topic Without frills, and faultless, Sutra-knowers know as sutra,


    that text where worry regarding the adding, newly adding, and deleting is made
    the wise knowers of the varttikas call varttikam


    that Wherein the meaning of the sutra is explained with the words which follow the sutra
    and [that in which] auto commentary is given. commentary knowers know as bhasyam

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