The History of Indian Literature c6.49

c6.49

(*a*) *Grammar*, 216–225: Páṇini's Grammar, its peculiar terminology, 216; Páṇini's date—statements of the Chinese traveller Hiuan Thsang, 217; weakness of the evidence on which Böhtlingk's view rests, 218; existence of Mahábháshya in the time of Abhimanyu, 219; acquaintance with Greeks presupposed in Páṇini, 220; ‘Yavanání,’ 221; commentaries on Páṇini—Paribháshás, Várttikas, Mahábháshya, 222; date of Kátyáyana, 222; of the Mahábháshya, 223; critical condition of the text of Páṇini, 224; Gaṇa-páṭha, &c., 225; other grammatical systems, 226. (*b*) *Lexicography*, 227-230: Amara-kosha, no foundation for the view which places it in the first century B.C., 228; internal evidence against this view, 229; age of the work still uncertain, 230; Dhátu-páṭhas, 230. (*c*) *Metric, Poetics, Rhetoric*, 231, 232: Chhandaḥ-śástra of Piṅgala, Alaṃkára-śástra of Bharata, Sáhitya-darpaṇa, 231.