The Kalanirnaya is a Siksa text written around the 16th-17th century. This present work Kalanirnaya with the Dipika (commentary) of Muktisvaracarya is prose from of the mid-17th century or a little earlier.
Kalanirnayadipika deals with only mora of Sanskrit. It emphasizes on the difference in the utterance of vowels, consonants and also in pause. It highlights the scientific basic of the structure of the Sanskrit language.
Kalanirnaya text and Dipika (commentary) both are critically edited here. The handy Introduction may be help to get a brief idea about Sanskrit Phonetics. Translation of the text has also been provided. It would be a great help for further study to those scholars who are interested in the field of Siksa.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Suranjana Chaudhury
Suranjana Chaudhury was born at Kolkata. She did her graduation with honours in Linguistics from the Sanskrit College, Kolkata; did post-graduation also in Linguistics from the University of Calcutta. She got her B.Ed. degree from the University of Calcutta. She did Diploma on Manuscriptology and B.L.I.S. degree from the University of Madras. She worked as a Project Assistant in Tamil Etymological Dictionary Project Assistant of NCC (New Catalogues Catalogorum) Project of Sanskrit Department in University of Madras. She obtained diploma in Hindi conducted by the Directorate of Education under the Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India.
She has been working in the Publication Section of the Asiatic Society, Kolkata, since 2007.
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