A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.835

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KĀTYĀYANA. An ancient writer of great celebrity, who came after Pānini, whose grammar he completed and corrected in what he called Vārttikas, ‘supplementary rules and annotations.’ He is generally identified with Vararuchi, the author of the Prākrita Prakāsa. Max Müller places him in the second half of the fourth century B.C.; Goldstücker in the first half of the second century B.C.; Weber about twenty-five years B.C. Besides his additions to Pānini’s Grammar, he was the author of the Srauta-sūtras which bear his name, and of the Yajur-veda Prātisākhya. His Sūtras have been edited by Weber. A story in the Kathā-sarit-sagara makes him the incarnation of a demigod named Pushpa-danta. A Kātyāyana was author also of a Dharma-sāstra.