TY - BOOK AU - Rakesh Shastri AU - Pratima Shastri TI - Sugama Sanskrit Vyakaran U1 - 491.28242 R1378 S PY - 2009/// CY - Delhi PB - Dharmanirajana Prakashan KW - Sanskrit Grammar N1 - Sanskrit grammatical tradition (vyākaraṇa, one of the six Vedanga disciplines) began in late Vedic India and culminated in the Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini, which consists of 3990 sutras (ca. 5th century BCE). About a century after Pāṇini (around 400 BCE), Kātyāyana composed vārtikas (explanations) on the Pāṇinian sũtras. Patañjali, who lived three centuries after Pāṇini, wrote the Mahābhāṣya, the "Great Commentary" on the Aṣṭādhyāyī and Vārtikas; Samgna prakaranam, Vyanjana sandhi, Karaka prakaranam, Krudantha prakaranam ER -