Arrangement of the Rules in Panini's Astadhyayi

The first part of the present work deals with general problems of rule ordering in the Astadhyayi known to Dr. Tripathi from Various sources. The main part of the work, however, is devoted to a study of the organization of the Taddhita section of the Astadhyayi, which formed the subject of the PhD thesis of Dr. Tripathi for the University of Poona in 1980. Here Dr. Tripathi convincingly shows that the taddhita section has been arranged along two different lines, namely, according to suffixes and according to meaning condition. This has been illustrated in great detail. There fore whoever wants to study the Astadhyayi in general and the taddhita section in particular will find the work done by Dr. Tripathi a valuable contribution to Paninian studies.

About the Author

He was born in 1951, lecturer in the dept. of Sanskrit College, Balrampur is a versatile Sanskrit scholar. He got his post graduate degree from Gorakhpur University in 1974 securing first division and got the award of PhD in 1981 from Poona University. He attended many seminars and conferences with his research papers on various topics of Sanskrit grammar and poetry. He also wrote a Sanskrit Khandakavya Tarangadutam. Fifteen years experience for teaching of Post graduate classes a number of Research scholar have been awarded PhD degree under his supervision.