Metarules of Paninian Grammar:: Vyadi's Paribhasavrtti: Critical Studies in Paninian System

The Vyādīyaparibhāṣāvṛtti is the earliest Sanskrit work entirely devoted to discussing the metarules and underlying assumptions of Panini's formal grammar of Sanskrit (5th-4th century BC). As such, it has much to teach us about the early development of ideas in this difficult and technical area which spans Indology and the history of linguistics. While the author does not admit it explicitly, he borrows heavily from Patañjali's Mahābhāşya, but often changes or disregards the original purpose of these borrowed arguments. The discussions in the Vyādīyaparibhāṣāvṛtti are, in turn, typical of those used by later commentators, and the present book traces the development of these lines of thought from Patanjali in the third century BC to Nägeśa in the seventeenth century.

About the Author

 Dominik Wujastyk :  was born in London is  He currently holds the Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity at the University of Alberta, He has active research interests in the social and intellectual history of  pre-colonial India, the early history of yoga philosophy and practice, and traditions of debate in India. He has degrees in Physics, and and Sanskrit with Pali, and a doctorate in Sanskrit from Oxford University. In 1990 he founded the INDOLOGY online discussion forum which has become hugely popular among fellow scholars. In 2013, together with a board of distinguished co-editors he has also launched a new journal, "History of Science in South Asia."                                           

His books include A Handlist of Sanskrit and Prakrit Manuscripts, Metarules of Paninian Grammar, Critical Edition Typesetting (with John Lavagnino), and The Roots of Ayurveda. (1998). His co-edited volumes include Studies on Indian Medical History , (1987) and Mathematics and Medicine in Sanskrit (2009).