dictionary of sanskrit grammar

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acted as Jf#r Or light, as without it,
.the Mahabhasya of Patanjali would
have remained unlit, that is unintelligible,
at several places. Later
grammarians attached to 9T#T almost
the same importance as they
did to the Mahabhasya and the
expression af® has been
often used by commentators. Hara-
datta’s Padamanjari is indebted to
his work. Many commentary works
were written on the Pradipa out
of which Nagesa’s Uddyota is the
most popular. The word came
to be used for the word
which was the work of Kaiyata.
For details see Vyakarana Mahabhasya
published by the D . E.
Society, Poona, Vol. V II. pp.
389-390-
a commentary on the Maha»
bhasyapradipa of Kaiyata written
by Niiakantha of the Dravida country.
Nilakantha lived in the 17th
century aDd wrote works.on various
subjects.
a commentary on the
Mahabhasyapradipa of Kaiyata
written by Pravartakopadhyaya.
( 1 ) a commentary on the
Mahabhasyapradipa of Kaiyata
written by Kvarananda, in the 16th
century; (2 ) a commentary on
Kaiyata’s Pradipa by Ramacandra-
Sarasvatl, who lived in the 16th
century.
a class of words headed by
the word which get their final
vowel lengthened when the word
q?r is placed after them as a second
' member of a compound, provided
the word so formed is used as a
proper noun; e.g. fw srcf.
Kaf. on P. VI. 3.1x7.
129
a reputed grammarian who
wrote an extensive explanatory
gloss by name Vaiyakaranabhusana
on the Vaiyakaranasiddhantaka=
„ rika of Bhattoji Diksita.- Another
work Vaiyakaranabhu§anasara
which is in a way an abridgment of
the Bhusana, was also written by
him. Konqlabhatta lived in the
beginning of the 17th century. He-
was the son of RangojI and nep
hew of Bhattoji DIk?ita. He was
one of the few writers on the
Arthavicara in the Vyakaranalastra
and his Bhusanasara ranks next to
the Vakyapadlya of Bhartfhari.
Besides the Bhu?ana and Bhu§ana-
sara, Kondabhatfa wrote two independent
works viz. Vaiyakarana-
siddhantadlpika and Sphotavada.
a scholar of Sanskrit V yakarana
who composed
a small treatise dealing with the
declension of nouns.
(1765-1837 A .D .)
was an eminent European Sans-
kritist who was responsible for the
development of the study of Sanskrit
learning in the latter half of
eighteenth century in India. His
major work is ' Miscelleneous
Essays ’. He has given an introductory
account of Sanskrit grammatical
literature in " On the
Sanskrit and Prakrit Languages"
Asiatic Researches -7 (1803, 199-
231)-
an ancient grammarian referred
to in the Taittiriya Prati§akhya
{ T. Pr. V . 38 ) and Panini’s Astadhyayi.
(P . II.4.70).
( 1 ) an alt
tive name of the Katantra Vyakarana
given to it on the strength
of the traditional belief that the
original inspiration for writing it
.