vyakarana
व्याकरण vyakaranaThe Vedanga of grammar, the analysis of language; its supreme monument is Panini's Ashtadhyayi.
Where this term appears
- Shruti and Smriti: what counts as Hindu scripture? Scriptures
…ry disciplines, are smriti too: Shiksha (phonetics), Chhanda (meter), Vyakarana (grammar), Nirukta (etymology), Jyotisha (astronomy), and Kalpa (ritual procedure), the technical scaffolding that lets the Veda b…
- How the Vedas Were Preserved History
Above these stood Vyakarana , grammar, which reached its towering peak in Panini's Ashtadhyayi , a description of the Sanskrit language so rigorous that modern linguists compare it to a formal computer grammar.
- The Limbs Treatise
Vyakarana , grammar, the analysis of how words are built and joined.
- The Mundaka Upanishad: two birds, and the lower knowledge Treatise
…eda, Sama-veda, Atharva-veda, Siksha (phonetics), Kalpa (ceremonial), Vyakarana (grammar), Nirukta (etymology), Khandas (metre), Gyotisha (astronomy); but the higher knowledge is that by which the Indestructibl…
- The Perfect Machine Treatise
This is vyakarana , grammar, one of the six Vedangas , the limbs of the Veda we met in this volume's opening chapter on the limbs themselves.
- The Saubhagya-Kadi Line Treatise
…es on Upanishadic texts), Mimamsa (the ritual-interpretation school), Vyakarana (grammar), Nyaya (logic), Smriti (the legal-ethical literature), and the Mantra Shastra (the Tantric scholarship proper).