Saroja V. Bhate

This book is the story of sage Panini and his grammar told by Soma Eva in his Kathasaritsagara. The same story with some minor changes is found in some other ancient story-books. Panini, the greatest grammarian of the world, belonged to the period between 5th and 4th century B.C. He is indeed the first grammarian to go deeper into the conventional speech units known as words and recognize the basic elements of meaning which combine into different meaningful ...