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Katyayana

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His Work

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about two to three centuries would not by any means be too great an interval that we can suppose to have elapsed

between them.

we cannot

In the present state

our knowledge

o£

therefore, unfortunately, arrive at a greater

approximation than 500-350 B. limit if the relation of

C.,

nearer to the latter

Katyayana with the Nandas men-

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tioned in Kathasaritsagara has any basis in fact. Nature of Katyayans’s work

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t

vartikas, are

meant

— Katyayana’s

work, the

to correct, modify, or

supplement the wherever they were or had become partially or totally inapplicable. There are two works of 2 iila. which aim at this object. The earlier is the Vajasa-nfivi q Etatiaakhya, a work dealing with the grammar and orthography of the Vajasaneyi-Samhita. Being limited by the rules of Panini

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nature of his subject to Vedic forms

Katyayana has herein given

of.

his criticisms

language only, on such of the

sutras of Panini as fell within his

province. Taking up the suggestion which dawned upon him probably in the course of his Pratisakhya, Katyayana next subjected Panini’s Ashtadhyayi to a searching criticism.

Since here

was not to explain Panini but find

faults in his

his object

grammar, he has

left

appeared

Of the nearly 4,000

1

valid.

Kstyayam

is

credited

authorship of a sutra style,

third

work

(published

Ciraukhamba

series), but it

with the in

Katyayana

the

Sranta* sutras the

unnoticed

in

Sanskrit

has nothing to

do with grammar. It might have given Katyayana practice

that 2

writing

in

sutras,

but

is all

posterior to

Panini

L

that

and based upon

clear

from the fact

many

of the sutras

is

him Katyayana

sutras that to

sutras

tnere given are indentical with

those of Panini.

ii.

The

pra-

tyaharas and anubandhas are in iii.

most cases those of Pacini,

Where

there are changes

they are

improvements upon Panini, such improvements as

Katyayana

later

embodied

with occasional changes for the better in his vartikas. gee

That the Vajasaneyi-PrEti^ikhya is

many

Goldstiicker, Panini, pp. 199 (Reprint, pp. 153) and the fol-

lowing.