An Account of the Different Existing Systems of Sanskrit Grammar c9.2

c9.2

52. The founder of the Śākaṭāyana Śabdānuśāsana not the ancient Śākaṭāyana but his modern namesake.—The name Śākaṭāyana suggests, as we have seen, a very high antiquity in that it is quoted in the Nirukta (i. 3) and in Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī (iii. 4.111, viii. 3.18, viii. 4.50). Here, however, we are dealing not with the ancient Śakaṭāyana—none of whose works have survived even in name—but with a modern or *abhinava* Śākaṭāyana: with the person who under this appellation is quoted, for instance, in Bopadeva's Kāmadhenu,¹ by Hemachandra, and other later writers.