A History of Sanskrit Literature c29.s3.6

c29.s3.6

Use is made in the *Kāçikā Vṛtti*, without acknowledgement, of the *Cāndra Vyākaraṇa*,⁶ the grammar of Candra, which was popular in the Buddhist countries, Kashmir, Tibet, and Nepal, and which reached Ceylon. The date is uncertain, for Bhartṛhari and Kalhaṇa ascribe to Candra study of the *Mahābhāṣya*, while south Indian tradition connects him with Vararuci and makes him condemn the *Mahābhāṣya* as much talk with few ideas. He alludes in his grammar to a victory of a Jarta over the Hūṇas, which points to A. D. 470 as an earliest date, and A. D. 600 seems at least as likely if we may trust Chinese sources. He wrote a comment on his own grammar, and has a distinct terminology from that of Pāṇini, though he is essentially dependent on him. A *Dhātupāṭha*, *Gaṇapāṭha*, *Uṇādisūtra*, and *Paribhāṣāsūtra* belong to the text, and *c.* 1200 the monk Kāçyapa wrote a *Bālāvabodhana* which became popular in Ceylon.