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Systems of Sanskrit Grammar [-§8

ed from a verbal root and meets the various objections raised against it,—a theory on which the whole system of Panini is based, and which is, in fast, the posunied of modern Philology.’

8 Yaske’s successors~Many valuable works on gram- mar subsequent to Yaska’s Nirukta but anterior to Panini’s Ashtadhyayi have been irrevocably lost to us; for, it cannot be maintained with cogency that the extremely artificial and algebraic style of the Asht@dhyayt could “have been completely evolved by Panini himself in the absence of similar tentative works preceding his. We have got for this the evidence of Panini’s own sitras, which use many technical words and formulas without having previously explained them’—an omission which, as indicated by Panini at i.2.53-57, is to be accounted for on the supposition that they were too well-known or already sufficiently dealt with in other works to need any exposition at his hands.

Some of these works must certainly have been in existence long after the time of the Mah&bhashya, since we find many quotations from them in later writers. The chief founders of grammatical schools prior to Panini are, Apiiali and Kasakritsna (compare Panini vi. 1. 92 ). A rule of Apigali® is given by the Kadika on vii. 3. 95,

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1 Compare Max Miiller’s History of Ancient Sk, Literature, pp. 161-168.

2 Such as sext, ween, fax, acta, wai, wear, ait, wade, ware, RENTS, KeTT ATS,

and elsewhere. These could not all have been taken from the Pratisnkhya works anterior to Yasko, since some of them appear to be unknown to thet author and must have come in-

agaht, ga afye, &o., ovcur- ring respectively in i, 1. 69, 4.3.48, 1.8.2, if, 8.18, il. 3.18, ii, 3. 28, fi. 3. 50, Hl 3. 86, i. 1.3, fi. 1.28, Hi, 1.8, Hi, 2. 28, di. 1. 98, iv. 1, 76,

a( Sk Gr

to vogue since his day, Compare algo Payini i, 3.120, sare? arse | where Bhattoji says, omfed® atagr year

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