[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953) › c6.2 # India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c6.2 India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c6.2 - **Language:** English ### [c6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c6.2) \*GRAMMAR\* (\*Vyākaraṇa\*)—Grammar was regarded by the Indians as the first and most important of the sciences (\*Vyākaraṇaṁ nāmeyam uttarā vidyā\*, \*Bhāshya\*, 1.2.32; I.208; also \*shaṭsu aṅgeshu pradhānam\*). The results attained by them in the systematic analysis of language surpass those arrived at by any other nation. "The Sanskrit grammarians were the first to analyse word-forms, to recognise the difference between root and suffix, to determine the functions of suffixes, and on the whole to elaborate a grammatical system so accurate and complete as to be unparalleled in any other country." (Macdonell, \*India's Past\*, p. 136). Their singular achievements in this field have also rendered eminent services to Western philology. - [Previous: c5.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c5.77) - [Next: c6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c6.3) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c6.2) · Pramāṇa