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Rāmacandrācārya’s Prakriyākaumudī and Jīva Gosvāmin’s Harināmāmṛtavyākaraṇa (15th-16th centuries) are the first two grammars in the Brahminical context to include verses with bitextual meaning (śleṣa). In those verses, the authors... more
This paper discloses the third part of the Kātantra grammar. It deals with verbs and grammatical processes pertaining to the structures of verbal elements. It is divided into eight subchapters... . . It is a draft. It... more
Various scholars have noted the similarities among the Cāndravyākaraṇavṛtti, the Kāśikāvṛtti, and the Mahāvṛtti. The examination of the paraphrases of the authors of these texts on the sūtras occurring in the section which concerns the... more
The volume, published under the auspices of Italian Embassy to India, contains a choice of the most significant Indological contributions in recent times by Italian scholars.
Pāṇinian grammar of living Sanskrit : features and principles of the Prakriyā-Sarvasva At around 350 B.C.E. Pāṇini composed a grammar of the language of the Vedas and the spoken high-standard language (which we now call Sanskrit) that... more
Underlying contemporaneous discussions in Pāṇinian studies, a cluster of methodological and theoretical choices can be discerned which merit further critical reflection. Notably, a critical consideration of three dominant "myths" in... more
This book examines the theory of consciousness developed by the school of Recognition, an Indian philosophical tradition that thrived around the tenth c. CE in Kashmir, and argues that consciousness has a linguistic nature. It situates... more
The inner structure of this paper is based upon a statistical approach to the aphorisms of the grammatical work known as "Kātantravyākaraṇa". It is a draft. it consists of 18 pages.
This paper examines the meaning, syntax, and distribution of the Vedic root vidh- and Old Avestan vīd-. Although Vedic vidh- is nowadays commonly interpreted as meaning ‘allot, apportion’ and connected with the preverb vi- + root dhā-, I... more
In addition to being comprehensive, the Aṣṭādhyāyī is also very concise – it would fit in less than seventy five A4 sheets. While there are many reasons for this conciseness, one of them is the use of abbreviations, called pratyāhāras, to... more
“Bhartṛhari and verbal testimony. A hyper-antireductionist approach?” in D. Cuneo–E. Freschi–C. Formigatti (eds.). Not Far Afield: Asian Perspectives on Sexuality, Testimony and Print Culture. A Coffee Break Project. Kervan 21: 227-246,... more
Rāmacandrācārya’s Prakriyākaumudī and Jīva Gosvāmin’s Harināmāmṛtavyākaraṇa (15th-16th centuries) are the first two grammars in the Brahminical context to include verses with bitextual meaning (śleṣa). In those verses, the authors... more
The Kātantraparibhāṣāsūtram: Metarules of the Kātantra grammar- This linguistic text consists of the sixty-seven metarules of the Kātantra grammar followed by the so called “balābala“ rules that are twenty-nine in number. The latter type... more
In the Mīmāṃsāsūtra, there is a section that deals with the diśām-aveṣṭi, a series of offerings to be performed at the end of the Rājasūya, the Vedic royal consecration. The discussion in this section extends to a controversy over... more
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Discusses the Popperian idea of theory immunization and information content with regard to Paninian grammar.
This is the first chapter of the Kātantra grammar . Euphony is the topic of the chapter. The "Sandhi prakaraṇa" is its Sanskrit title. The chapter contains 79 sūtras. It deals with the phonological processes whereby the sounds of... more
The starting point of this communication is M I, 240 l. 27 - 241 l. 5 ad vt. 29 ad A 1.2.64, where lopa of the affix KviP, such as in the case of agnicit- and of somasut-, is mentioned as the standard exception to the often asserted need... more
उत्सवः सुधियामलम् is the collection of articles on Sanskrit poems written with a view of illustrating grammatical rules. Usually such poems are called काव्यशास्त्र's or व्याकरणोदाहरणकाव्य's. This book contains critiques on a variety of... more
The focus of the present paper is on the opposition between linguistic phenomena labelled as v¯ acanika 'stated [be it by a rule or, which amounts to the same, through a specific linguistic sub-unit]' and those considered as sv¯ abh¯... more
This study focuses on the devices implemented in Classical Indian texts on ritual and language in order to develop a structure of rules in an economic and systematic way. These devices presuppose a spatial approach to ritual and language,... more
The present paper is targeted on three landmarks in the long story of the paribhāṣās’ development. Two of these landmarks descended from the earliest testimony of Vyākaraṇa meta-rules, i. e. those included in Pāṇini’s grammar... more
Kātantravyākaraṇa: This paper is about the second part of the Kātantra grammar. It is divided into six subchaters dealing with nominal stems, and various grammatical processes pertaining to the structures of nominal elements. Subchapters... more