| Metarules of Pāṇinian Grammar (2 Vols.): Vyjāḍi's Paribhāṣāvṛtti Contributor(s): Wujastyk, Dominik (Author) |
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ISBN: 9069800349 ISBN-13: 9789069800349 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - General - Social Science | Human Geography - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
| LCCN: 94204991 |
| Series: Groningen Oriental Studies |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Vyāḍi's Paribhaṣavṛtti is the earliest Sanskrit work entirely devoted to discussing the metarules and underlying assumptions of Pāṇini's formal grammar of Sanskrit (5th-4th century BC). As such, it has much to teach us about the early development of ideas in this difficult and technical area which spans Indology and the history of linguistics. While Vyāḍi does not admit it explicitly, he borrows heavily from Pata jali's Mahābhāṣya, but often changes or disregards the original purpose of these borrowed arguments. Vyāḍi's discussions are, in turn, typical of those used by later commentators, and the present book traces the development of these lines of thought from Pata jali in the third century BC to Nāgeśa in the seventeenth century. |
