varttika
वार्त्तिक varttikaA critical note that corrects, supplements or refines a grammatical rule; the genre of Katyayana's commentary on Panini, standing between the rule and the fuller bhashya.
Where this term appears
- The Perfect Machine Treatise
His Varttika are critical notes on Panini's rules, correcting them where they overreach, supplementing them where they fall short, refining them where they are unclear.
- What is Nyaya? Philosophy
Uddyotakara's Nyaya-varttika was written largely to answer Dignaga; Vacaspati Mishra answered the Buddhist rejoinders in turn; and the argument was still burning when Udayana, at the end of the old school, set …