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← The source texts

Ashtadhyayi

Vyakarana, Nirukta (etymology), Shiksha (phonetics)

Who

Panini — Grammarian

When

Mid-first millennium BCE · range · disputed
Scholarly estimates differ by centuries; no date is settled

Where

Shalatura, Gandhara · Gandhara — the north-west of the subcontinent (traditional)

Where in the text, and who commented

Passage not yet recorded.

What it carries into modern education

Languages and grammar · CBSE · ICSE · IGCSE · IB · State — Phonetics and articulation, morphology, derivation, syntax and semantics — a complete descriptive grammar of a living language.

Linguistics and computational linguistics — Generative rules, morphology and derivation, phonology, semantics, and the meta-rules that order rule application.

Evidence: traditionally attributed · no modern scholarly reference recorded yet.