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ditya and Vamana in the 7th
century A.D. Nothing definitely can
be said., as to which. portion was
. written by jayaditya arid which by
Vamana, or the whole work was
jointly written. Some scholars
believe that the work was called
. Kasika as it was written in the
city of Ka£i and that the gloss
on the first five Adhyayas was
written b y: Jayaditya and that on
the last three by.Vamana. Although
it is written in a scholarly way,
the work forms an excellent help
to beginners to understand the
sense of the pithy Sutras of Panini.
The work has not only deserved
but obtained and. maintained a
very prominent position among students
and scholars of .Panini’s grammar
in spite of other works.like the
Bhasavjtti, the Prakriya Kaumudi,
the. Siddhanta Kaumudi and others
written by equally learned scholars.
Its wording is based almost on the-
Mahabhasya, which it has followed,
avoiding, of course, the scholarly
disquisitions occurring here and
. there in the Mahabhasya. Traditionally
it is called R3ilf% because it
is a common treatise on Vedic and
classical grammar. It has derived
great help from Candravftti. It
appears that manj' commentary
works were written on it, the well-
known among them being the Kasi-
kavivaranapafijika or Nyasa written
by Jinendrabuddhi and the Pada-
manjaii by Haradatta. For details
see Vjakaranamahabhasya Vol.VII
pp 286-87 published by the D.E.
Society, Poona. (2 } The name
KaSika is sometimes found given
to their commentaries bn standard
wuiks of Sanskrit Grammar by
scholars,' as possibly they were
written at Ka£I; as for instance,
(a) KaSika on Vaiyakara^tabhusana-
sara by Hari Dlk§ita, and ( b )
KajHka on Paribhasendusekhara by
Vaidyanatha Payagunde.
also called Nyasa,
the well-known commentary written
by jinendrabuddhi on the Kasika
of Jayaditya and Vamana, See
KaSika above.
a commentary on
Kasika. by RamamiSra.
a commentary on the
Kasikavftti named by
Varanava{esa-sastrin .or Varanava-
. nesa.
5 W I name of an ancient grammarian
quoted by Panini, possibly an
. author of some Pratisakhya work
now lost.
I
name of an anonymous gloss
on the Candra Vyakarana. '
a class of words headed by
the words 51%, %(?, and others to
which the taddhita affixes and
are added in the miscellaneous
senses; e. g.
etc.; cf. K a l on P. IV. 2.116.
The fem. affix f is applied when
the affix *51. is added to the word
*Slfg; cf. P. IV. 1.15.
a class of words headed by
,the woid after which a word
standing as a second member in a
compound gets the grave accent-
for it, e. g. etc.
cf. P. VIII. 1.67.
R3 ( 1 ) krt affix 5 prescribed after §
roots with a prefix attached; e.g. iffe
JTfw: cf. P.HI.3.92, 93; (2) krt. affix ?
looked upon as a perfect termination
and, hence, causing reduplication
and accusative case of the
noun connected, found in Vedic