The present volume is a companion volume to the earlier book A Linguistic Analysis of the Rgveda-Padapatha in the series of Pre-Paninian Grammatical Tradition. The present book is on the Padapatha (Pp.) of the Taittiriya Samhita (TS), although occasional comparison is made with other (Pps). The method used is that of a descriptive analysis. All words of the Pp are individually studied and an attempt is made to formulate the rules of the Pp. The book is divided into two parts. Part one consists of introduction, reconstruction of the knowledge of grammar on the part of the Pada kara and the rules of the TPp. The second part deals with the description of thje analysis. Each suffix is individually studied in comparison to the other Pps. Description given by different Pps is taken into consideration, generally everywhere it is compared with Paninian description. The book reveals that the TPp is closer to Panini insofar as the notions of grammatical categories are concerned.
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