A History of Sanskrit Literature c29.s2.33

c29.s2.33

As we have seen, Pāṇini presupposes an *Uṇādisūtra*⁶; our extant text contains late words like *dīnāra* or *mihira* and omits some, e. g. *pāntha* mentioned by Patañjali; Çākaṭāyana or Vararuci is given as author. The *Dhātupāṭha* goes back in substance to Pāṇini; it gives the roots according to classes, with indicatory letters containing information regarding their formation; on it are based the *Dhātupradīpa* of Maitreyarakṣita, the *Daiva* of Deva, and the *Puruṣakāra*, a joke on the name, by Kṛṣṇalīlāçuka,⁷ who is later than Hemacandra, and the *Mādhavīya Dhātuvṛtti*⁸ ascribed to Sāyaṇa’s brother Mādhava in the fourteenth century. The *Gaṇapāṭha* has been interpolated, and Vardhamāna’s *Gaṇaratnamahodadhi*⁹ (1140) is not based on it but on some other grammar. Rules on accent, Vedic and classical, are dealt with in the *Phiṭsūtra*¹⁰ of Çāntanava, who is later than Patañjali. The rules of interpretation which govern the construction of the grammar must have been early formulated, if not explicitly laid down by Pāṇini himself; of several collections, that commented on by Nāgojī Bhaṭṭa in his *Paribhāṣenduçekhara*¹ is best known.