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 [ - § 44 Chandragomin His Work of Bhartrihari acknowledged Chandracharya (Chandra- gomin) as his master.¹ Chandragomin must have lived therefore at least two generations before the author of the Vakyapadiya. All accounts agree in stating that Chandragomin was a Bauddha. He was one of the laity, and is not to be confused with Chandradāsa who belong- ed to the order.2 44. Nature of Chandragomin's work.-Chandragomin's grammar was meant as an improvement on that of Panini, Katyāyana, and Patañjali, mainly in the way of greater brevity and precision. Accordingly he has omitted, for obvious reasons, the Paniniya rules about Vedic accent and grammar, although he includes some Vedic roots in his Dhātupāṭha. He has lessened the number of pratya- hara-sutras by one (fusing and into UTtSU), omitted some of the Paniniya pratyähäras and coined others. In many cases, the rules of Panini are recast simply for the sake of securing facility of pronuncia- tion. The really original contributions of Chandragomin amount to about 35 sutras and these have been incorpo- rated in the Käsikā. In all these cases Kaiyyata has the remark errfor: gg Tz:. The total number of the Chandra sūtras is about 3100 as against 4000 of Pāņini. The work consists of six chapters of four padas each, the matter of Panini's first two chapters being scattered all through. The object of Chandragomin was to rearrange the grammatical material with the object of bringing to- gether all the rules that deal with the same phonetic or grammatical operations as well as the same part of 1 See Vakyapadiya Kaula ii, stanzas 489-30 and com. thereon. 2 Liebich, ibidem, p. 10-11; Keru: Manual of Buddhiem, pp. 120, 59 130; also Ind. Aut, xv. pp. 183-184. 3 For Panini's (i. 1.55) Chandra reads f (1.1.12). T