![]() ![]() This is based, rather tentatively, upon the Sutra: Yaska-adibhyo gotre ( PS_2.4.63) in Panini’s Astadhyayi. It is said Yaska preceded Panini (Ca.5 th century B C E) by about a century or, perhaps, more. There is often a tendency to compare the approach and the methods adopted by the two Greats to their respective fields of study. And, his Grammar A ṣṭ ādhyāyī ( Pā ṇ inīk ṛ ta – Sūtrapā ṭ ham ), the most distinguished treatise that set the linguistic standards for Classical Sanskrit, is referred to as Paniniyam Maha-shastram. ![]() And, Panini, the Grammarian par excellence ( Maha-Vaiyakaranah), is reverently addressed as Bhagavata ḥ Pā ṇ ine ḥ Acārya. Yaskacharya is renowned as a Great Etymologist ( Niruktakara), whose work, the Nirukta, is looked upon as the oldest available authoritative treatise concerning derivation of certain selected Vedic words. Yaska and Panini are two of the most celebrated scholars of the Sanskrit linguistic sciences. ![]()
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