[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955) › c19.s1.36 # A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s1.36 A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s1.36 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s1.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s1.36) In grammar, Sarvavarman, a reputed contemporary of Gunādhya in the Sātavāhana court, wrote the \*Kātantra sūtras\*, a simplified system of grammar, for the benefit of his patron and thus began the \*Kātantra\* school which flourished subsequently more in Bengal than anywhere else. Another system that arose in the South was that of Sākatāyana, of the reign of the Rāshtrakūta Amogavarsha I (A.D. 817-77); he wrote the \*Sabdānuśāsana\* in four chapters as also a commentary on it called \*Amoghavritti\* after his patron, besides the ancillary treatises needed to complete his new system. The earliest South Indian writer on the system of Pānini was Haradatta (ninth century) whose commentary \*Padamañjarī\* on the \*Kāśikā\* of Vāmana and Jayāditya is a work of outstanding merit and authority. In the thirteenth century a certain Krishnalilāśuka wrote a commentary called \*Purushakāra\* on the \*Daiva\* of Deva, a terse metrical treatise in 200 verses on roots of similar form. The commentary described itself as a \*vārttika\* and deservedly enjoys a high place among grammatical works. The \*Mādhavīyadhātuvritti\* of Mādhava, the great commentator on the Vedas, is a commentary on the \*Dhātupātha\* (list of roots) of Pānini which, by the way, suggests the derivation of quite a large number of words whose origin is not given in any other work. The \*Siddhānta Kaumudī\* of Bhaṭṭoji Dikshita, a younger contemporary of Appaya Dikshita, is today the most popular manual of Sanskrit grammar. - [Previous: c19.s1.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s1.35) - [Next: c19.s1.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s1.37) - [Up: c19.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s1) ## Linked texts (6) - [Vaiyākaraṇasiddhāntakaumudī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.vyakarana.prakriya.siddhantakaumudi) — Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita 1600, Sanskrit - [Aṣṭādhyāyī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.vyakarana.astadhyayi) — Pāṇini, Sanskrit - [Dhātupāṭha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.vyakarana.khila.dhatupatha) — Pāṇini, Sanskrit - [Padamañjarī (Pali)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.vyakarana.pali.padamanjari) — Pāli - [Kātantra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.vyakarana.anya.katantra) — Śarvavarman, Sanskrit - [Daiva](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.vyakarana.khila.daiva) — Deva, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s1.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s1.36) · Pramāṇa