TY - BOOK AU - Naresh jha TI - Ashtadhyaye of Panini: Shanti sanskrit and hindi commentary T2 - Choukhamba surabharati granthamala-405 U1 - 491.25 N1671 A PY - 2017/// CY - Varanasi PB - Choukhamba surabharati prakashan KW - Sanskrit language--Grammar N1 - Ashtadhyayi, Sanskrit Aṣṭādhyāyī (“Eight Chapters”), Sanskrit treatise on grammar written in the 6th to 5th century BCE by the Indian grammarian Panini. This work set the linguistic standards for Classical Sanskrit. It sums up in 4,000 sutras the science of phonetics and grammar that had evolved in the Vedic religion. Panini divided his work into eight chapters, each of which is further divided into quarter chapters. Beyond defining the morphology and syntax of Sanskrit language, Ashtadhyayi distinguishes between usage in the spoken language and usage that is proper to the language of the sacred texts ER -