Kaunda Bhatta’s Vaiyakaranabhusanasara

Kaunda Bhatta's Vaiyakaranabhusanasara is an abridgement of his own Vaiyakaranabhusana. It is a pioneering attempt at logical systematization of Panini's grammar. It presents an argument to show the reason for the differeing interpretations of the Paninian rules by Mimamsakas and Naiyayikas on the one hand, and grammarians on the other. Through an analysis of verbal roots, conjugational declensional, primary and secondary affixes, compounds, prefixes and particles; and a study of sphota, it explicates grammarians' outlook on verbal cognition. The present study is a critical examination of Kaunda Bhatta's arguments. It brings out the relevance of Paninian grammar in understanding the modern theories of meaning, semantics and syntax.