On the Aindra School of Sanskrit Grammarians, their Place in the Sanskrit and Subordinate Literatures c5.100
On the Aindra School of Sanskrit Grammarians, their Place in the Sanskrit and Subordinate Literatures c5.100
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c5.100
Thus, as far as these terms go, it is clear that if we find almost any one of them in any treatise, we are certain to find the rest in due course; but this is not the case if we take Pāṇini’s grammar. I have already given several instances which show the great development in the system of technical terms as used by the last, compared with the former; I shall now show that Pāṇini’s use of the Aindra terms proves that they belong to an older system, and that they probably belong to the system of the grammarians whom he occasionally quotes as “Prāñcaḥ”.