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(c. 520–460 BCE), Sanskrit grammarian. There is controversy regarding the dates of Panini, but most scholars believe that he lived in the fifth century BCE. He was born in Shalatura, near Attock in present-day Pakistan. Panini's magnum...
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fl. fifth century B.C. Indian grammarian whose system of rules for the Sanskrit language is regarded as a precursor of modern formal language theory. In his Astadhyayi, Panini gave some 4,000 aphoristic rules for the language, which—in part...
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Panini (IAST: Pāṇini, Devanāgarī: पाणिनि; a patronymic meaning "descendant of Pani") was an ancient Indian grammarian from Gandhara (fl. 4th century BC[1]). He is known for his Sanskrit grammar, particularly for his formulation of the...


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