Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v2.c40.s5.2

v2.c40.s5.2

Pāṇini elevated his work on grammar to the level of a science of languages, explaining in great detail the verbal and other kinds of roots of large number of Sanskritic words. He never lost objectivity and admitted that some words were coined accidentally and did not have any clear root. The surprising thing is that he could discover the dhātu (root or constituent) of such a large number of words.