Panini Re-interpreted is an English version of a part of Prof. Charu Deva Shastri's magnum opus, the Vyakaranacandrodaya. It attempts an exhaustive treatment after panini of the Karakas Samasas, the most essential of the ingredients of Sanskrit Syntax. The rules of Panini are explained here at length and illustrated with countless examples from ancient Sanstrit literature. The work is an attempt to divine the mind of Panini, the ancient grammarian by Abhinava-Panini, the modern one who has enriched Sanskrit grammatical literature by several of his exhaustive and penetrating studies well over the past half a century.
The present work is the last one by the learned savant and is being published herewith posthumously.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Charu Deva Shastri
Prof. Charu Deva Shastri stood out among his contemporaries as a remarkable personality. His phenomenal grasp of Sanskrit grammar, especially of the Paninian school, earned him the coveted title of Abhinava-Panini, Modern Panini, from his friends and admirers. His publications include 21 books, 18 articles and two series of five volumes each, the Vyakarnancandrodaya of 2332 pages and the Upasargarthacandrika of 1200 pages in print. He knew, apart from Sanskrit, Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati and Marathi among the Indian languages and English, German, French, Russian and Persian among the foreign. Born on May 8, 1896 he carried on his scholarly activities for well over six decades. Of the many honours he won, were the President of India Certificate of Honour in 1973, the degree of D.Litt. (Honoris Causa) from the Bananas Hindu University, Varanasi in 1981, the Vishishta Sanskrit Sahitya Puraskara from the U.P. Sanskrit Academy in 1981 and the title of Shiromani Sanskrit Sahityakar from the Govt. of Punjab in 1983. On 9th April, 1987 the great savant passed away and with it came to an end an era of dedicated scholarship in the domain of Sanskrit studies.
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