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Earlier and Later Vartikakaras

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Aindra school, makes

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school, of grammar different from 2 tinctly calls him a Southerner’.

Panini’s.

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As observed 19. Vartikakaras before and; after Katyayana before (p. 28), Katyayana had several predecessors from Vliose works he may have taken many suggestions. In his Pratisakhya he refers to Sakatayana and Sakalya, 1 names alreadyquoted by Panini while in the vartikas he refers

Vajapyayana, Vyadi, 0 and Paushkarasadi, 7 and designates a number of others under the general appela%r%*. and so forth. 8 Some of these latter tion of must have been scholars who, like Katyayana himself, subjected the wording of the sutras of PiSnini to a critical examination. Vyadi we know, was the author of an ex-

by name

to

tensive work called Sangraha, referred to in the Mahabhashya 9 which is in fact based upon it.

Katyayana was followed in his task by a vast number The names of some of these are preserved for To that list we must add the author or us by Patanjali. of writers.

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authors of the metrical vartikas(over 250) that are quoted in the Mahabashya. Some of these belong to Patanjali himself,

others probably to Katyayana, while

still

others, to

1 either the predecessors or successors of Katyayana.

and elsewhere

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