On the Aindra School of Sanskrit Grammarians, their Place in the Sanskrit and Subordinate Literatures c3.8

c3.8

Eight different schools of Grammar are commonly mentioned in India²). Of these, Pāṇini's system has long superseded all others; Ṣākaṭāyana's and Jinendra's are still known by existing MSS.; Candra (-gomin)'s Grammar exists in a Tibetan version³), and four other schools (of Indra, Kāca-kṛitsna, Āpiçali and Amara) are known by name or by an occasional quotation. Students of Sanskrit literature must have long ago remarked that this enumeration is apparently defective, as there is a large amount of grammatical literature (e.g. the Prātiçākhyas), existing in that language which cannot apparently be brought under any one of these schools, and must, thus, have been led to question the value of Vopadeva's statement; but I hope to be able to show here that this is not to be done. Of all the eight