Panini, Pà ní ní, Pa ni ni, Pāṇini, Pāṇiṉi, Pāṇinī: 23 definitions
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In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Pāṇini (पाणिनि).—The author of the Sanskrit Grammar, Pāṇinīya. General information. There is nowhere else in this world a grammar so scientific and so complete as Pāṇinīya. The book contains about four thousand aphorisms. Pāṇini was an inspired sage and he got his knowledge from Śiva. It has not been possible to gather much information about the life of such a celebrated grammarian. Patañjali believes that he was the son of Dākṣi. He addresses Pāṇini as Acārya, Bhagavān and Maharṣi. The Chinese traveller Huen Tsang says that the grammar of all the languages in this world has its origin from Pāṇinīya. Rāmabhadradīkṣita says that Pāṇini was the son of the sage Pāṇi. (See full article at Story of Pāṇini from the Puranic encyclopaedia by Vettam Mani)
Pāṇini (पाणिनि).—A Trayārṣeya.*
- * Matsya-purāṇa 198. 10.
The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.
Kavya (poetry)
Pāṇini (पाणिनि) is the name of a pupil of Upavarṣa, whose story is told in the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 4. Accordingly, “Varṣa got a great number of pupils, and among them there was one rather stupid pupil of the name of Pāṇini; he, being wearied out with service, was sent away by the preceptor’s wife, and being disgusted at it, and longing for learning, he went to the Himālaya to perform austerities: then he obtained from the god who wears the moon as a crest, propitiated by his severe austerities, a new grammar, the source of all learning.”.
The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Pāṇini, is a famous Sanskrit epic story revolving around prince Naravāhanadatta and his quest to become the emperor of the vidyādharas (celestial beings). The work is said to have been an adaptation of Guṇāḍhya’s Bṛhatkathā consisting of 100,000 verses, which in turn is part of a larger work containing 700,000 verses.
Pāṇini (पाणिनि) is the name of an important person (viz., an Ācārya or Kavi) mentioned in Rājaśekhara’s 10th-century Kāvyamīmāṃsā.—The famous grammarian of Sanskrit Literature. He is well known for his famous work Aṣthāyadhāyī and also known as Dākṣīputra.
Kavya (काव्य, kavya) refers to Sanskrit poetry, a popular ancient Indian tradition of literature. There have been many Sanskrit poets over the ages, hailing from ancient India and beyond. This topic includes mahakavya, or ‘epic poetry’ and natya, or ‘dramatic poetry’.
Vyakarana (Sanskrit grammar)
Pāṇini (पाणिनि).—The illustrious ancient grammarian of India who is wellknown by his magnum opus, the Astaka or Astaadhyaayi which has maintained its position as a unique work on Sanskrit grammar unparalleled upto the present day by any other work on grammar, not only of the Sanskrit language, but ofany other language, classical as well as spoken. His mighty intelligence grasped, studied and digested not only the niceties of accentuation and formation of Vedic words, scattered in the vast Vedic Literature of his time, but those of classical words in the classical literature and the spoken Sanskrit language of his time in all its different aspects and shades, noticeable in the various provinces and districts of the vast country. The result of his careful study of the Vedic Literature and close observation of.the classical Sanskrit, which was a spoken language in his days, was the production of the wonderful and monumental work, the Astaadhyaayi,which gives an authoritative description of the Sanskrit language, to have a complete exposition of which,several life times have to be spent,in spite of several commentaries upon it, written from time to time by several distinguished scholars. The work is a linguist's and not a language teacher's. Some Western scholars have described it as a wonderful specimen of human intelligence,or as a notable manifestation of human intelligence. Very little is known unfortunately about his native place,parentage or personal history. The account given about these in the Kathaasaritsaagara and other books is only legendary and hence, it has very little historical value. The internal evidence, supplied by his work shows that he lived in the sixth or the seventh century B. C., if not earlier, in the north western province of India of those days. Jinendrabuddhi, the author of the Kaasikavivaranapanjikaa or Nyasa, has stated that the word शलातुर् (śalātur) mentioned by him in his sUtra (IV. 3.94) refers to his native place and the word शालातुरीय (śālāturīya) derived by him from the word शलातुर (śalātura) by that sUtra was, in fact his own name, based upon the name of the town which formed his native place. Paanini has shown in his work his close knowledge of, and familiarity with, the names of towns, villages, districts, rivers and mountains in and near Vaahika, the north-western Punjab of the present day, and it is very likely that he was educated at the ancient University of Taksasilaa. Apart from the authors of the Pratisaakhya works, which in a way could be styled as grammar works, there were scholars of grammar as such, who preceded him and out of whom he has mentioned ten viz., Apisali, Saakataayana, Gaargya, Saakalya, Kaasyapa, Bha-. radwaja, Gaalava, Caakravarmana Senaka and Sphotaayana. The grammarian Indra has not been mentioned by Paanini, although tradition says that he was the first grammarian of the Sanskrit language. It is very likely that Paanini had no grammar work of Indra before him, but at the same time it can be said that the works of some grammarians , mentioned by Panini such as Saakaatyana, Apisali, Gaargya and others had been based on the work of Indra. The mention of several ganas as also the exhaustive enumeration of all the two thousand and two hundred roots in the Dhaatupaatha can very well testify to the existence of systematic grammatical works before Paarnini of which he has made a thorough study and a careful use in the composition of his Ganapaatha and Dhaatupatha. His exhaustive grammar of a rich language like Sanskrit has not only remained superb in spite of several other grammars of the language written subsequently, but its careful study is felt as a supreme necessity by scholars of philology and linguistics of the present day for doing any real work in the vast field of linguistic research. For details see pp.151-154 Vol. VII of Paatanjala Mahaabhsya, D. E. Society's Edition.
Pāṇini (पाणिनि) (7th century BCE) is the name of an author on vyākaraṇa (grammar).—The tradition holds that there was a long tradition of grammatical thinking before Pāṇini. In the Aṣṭādhyāyī Pāṇini refers to the works of ten grammarians such as Āpiśali, Kāśyapa, Gārgya and others. Eighty-five grammarians before Pāṇini are known to us by name.
Vyakarana (व्याकरण, vyākaraṇa) refers to Sanskrit grammar and represents one of the six additional sciences (vedanga) to be studied along with the Vedas. Vyakarana concerns itself with the rules of Sanskrit grammar and linguistic analysis in order to establish the correct context of words and sentences.
India history and geography
Pāṇini (पाणिनि) is the name of a Poet mentioned in the 13th century Saduktikarṇāmrita by Śrīdhara Dāsa (son of Vaṭu Dāsa) who was a chief over several districts (called a mahāmaṇḍalika).—The Sadukti-Karnamrita is a collection of miscellaneous verses by different authors and on various subjects, five verses being devoted to each subject. There are 446 poets identified (for example, Pāṇini) some of which in the feminine gender (intended for females) while others are of Buddhist monks etc.
The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.
Biology (plants and animals)
Panini in Hawaii is the name of a plant defined with Opuntia ficus-indica in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Cactus compressus Salisb. (among others).
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· Hort. Beng. (1814)
· Supplementum Plantarum Succulentarum (1819)
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Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Pāṇini (पाणिनि).—Name of a celebrated grammarian who is considered as an inspired muni, and is said to have derived the knowledge of his grammar from Śiva; येनाक्षरसमाम्नायमधिगम्य महेश्वरात् । कृत्स्नं व्याकरणं चक्रे तस्मै पाणिनये नमः (yenākṣarasamāmnāyamadhigamya maheśvarāt | kṛtsnaṃ vyākaraṇaṃ cakre tasmai pāṇinaye namaḥ) || Śekhara.
Derivable forms: pāṇiniḥ (पाणिनिः).
Pāṇini (पाणिनि).—m.
(-niḥ) Panini, a Muni and inspired grammarian. E. pāṇin a proper name and iñ aff. of descent.
Pāṇini (पाणिनि).—m. The name of a great grammarian.
Pāṇini (पाणिनि).—[masculine] [Name] of a celebrated grammarian.
1) Pāṇini (पाणिनि) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—as a poet. Kṣemendra in Suvṛttatilaka 3, 30 (he wrote in Upajāti metre). Śp. p. 46. [Sūktikarṇāmṛta by Śrīdharadāsa] [Subhāshitāvali by Vallabhadeva] Jāmbavatīvijaya. Quoted by Rāyamukuṭa, in Harihārāvali Peters. 2, 61. Pātālavijaya. Quoted by Nami on Kāvyālaṃkāra 2, 8.
2) Pāṇini (पाणिनि):—grammarian: Aṣṭādhyāyī. See Paribhāṣā, Liṅgānuśāsana and Śikṣā. Śabdamālikā (?). B. 3, 24.
1) Pāṇini (पाणिनि):—[from pāṇina] m. (according to, [Pāṇini 4-1, 95] [patronymic] [from] pāṇina) Name of the most eminent of all native Sanskṛt grammarians (he was the author of the aṣṭādhyāyī and supposed author of sub voce other works, viz. the Dhātu-pāṭha, Gaṇa-pātha, Liṅgānuśāsana and Śikṣā; he was a Gāndhāra and a native of Śalātura, situated in the North-West near Attok and Peshawar see, [iv, 3, 94] and Śālāturīya; he lived after Gautama Buddha but B.[Calcutta edition] and is regarded as an inspired Muni; his grandfather’s name was Devala and his mother’s Dākṣi [see sub voce and Dākṣeya])
2) [v.s. ...] of a poet (by some identified with the grammarian).
Pāṇini (पाणिनि):—(niḥ) 2. m. Pānini, a sage and celebrated grammarian.
Pāṇini (पाणिनि):—(wohl von pāṇina) m. [Siddhāntakaumudī.234,b,11.] Nomen proprium eines im höchsten Ansehen stehenden alten Grammatikers, über dessen Lebenszeit viel gestritten worden ist; in der Regel wird er in das 4te Jahrhundert v. [Chr.] gesetzt. [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 2, 7, 24.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 851.] [ŚIKṢĀ] [?(Ṛgveda-Rec.) 40. 57. Pariśiṣṭa des Atharvaveda in Weber’s Verzeichniss 92. Hiouen-Thsang I, 125. Kathāsaritsāgara 4, 20 fgg. Rājataraṅgiṇī 4, 634. 636.] kṛti [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 6, 2, 151,] [Scholiast]
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Pāṇini (पाणिनि):—[SAṂSK. K. 183,b,11.] yadāha pāṇiniḥ svaprākṛtalakṣaṇe [Weber’s Indische Studien 10, 277.] als Dichter [Oxforder Handschriften 124,a,25.]
Pāṇini (पाणिनि):—m. Nomen proprium eines berühmten alten Grammatikers , der auch gedichtet haben soll.
Pāṇini (पाणिनि) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Pāṇiṇi.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
Hindi dictionary
Pāṇini (पाणिनि):—(nm) the celebrated pioneering Grammarian of ancient India whose famous work is entitled [aṣṭādhyāyī; ~nīya] Paninian, pertaining to [pāṇini], his grammatical school or his technique of linguistic analysis.
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Prakrit-English dictionary
Pāṇiṇi (पाणिणि) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Pāṇini.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
Tamil dictionary
Pāṇiṉi (பாணினி) noun < Pāṇini. An eminent Sanskrit grammarian; வடமொழி வியாகரணஞ் செய்த ஓர் ஆசிரியர். வடமொழியைப் பாணினிக்கு வகுத்தருளி [vadamozhi viyagaranagn seytha or asiriyar. vadamozhiyaip paninikku vagutharuli] (காஞ்சிப்புராணம் தழுவக். [kanchippuranam thazhuvag.] 248).
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Pāṇiṉi (பாணினி) noun Feminine of பாணன். [panan.] Songstress, woman of the Pāṇar caste; பாடினி. பாணினியு மின்னிசையாற் பாடுவாள் [padini. paniniyu minnisaiyar paduval] (கடம்ப. திருவிசைப்பா [kadamba. thiruvisaippa], 295).
Tamil is an ancient language of India from the Dravidian family spoken by roughly 250 million people mainly in southern India and Sri Lanka.
Nepali dictionary
Pāṇinī (पाणिनी):—n. name of a celebrated grammarian;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
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