Paninidarshana, Pāṇinidarśana, Panini-darshana: 3 definitions

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Paninidarshana means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

The Sanskrit term Pāṇinidarśana can be transliterated into English as Paninidarsana or Paninidarshana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

General definition (in Hinduism)

[«previous next»] — Paninidarshana in Hinduism glossary

Pāṇinidarśana (पाणिनिदर्शन) refers to the thirteenth chapter of the Sarvadarśanasaṃgraha (lit., “ompendium of all the darśanas”) by Mādhavācārya (fourteenth century CE) refers to the most famous text of the Saṃgraha literary genre dealing in 16 chapters with different darśanas or schools of Indian philosophy.—The thirteenth darśana is named pāṇinidarśana, and it treats of the school of Indian traditional grammar, the vyākaraṇa, whose founder (or at least the more ancient author whose work has arrived to us) is Dākṣīputra Pāṇini, the author of the Aṣṭādhyāyī, Eight Day Grammar (eight sections, each one of them divided in four ‘feet’, pāda, for a total sum of almost 4.000 aphorisms, sūtra), glossed by Kātyāyana (vārttika) and commented upon by Patañjali (bhāṣya). The term vyākaraṇa covers both the semantic spheres of grammar (and more generally of linguistics) and of philosophy of language, and it may etymologically be explained alternatively as ‘formation of words’ or as ‘analysis’, in the sense of ‘separation, distinction’ of words into their constituent parts (such as root, prefix, suffix, and so on). [...]

Source: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale: The Epistemological Model of Vedantic Doxography According to the Sarvadarśanasaṃgraha

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

[«previous next»] — Paninidarshana in Sanskrit glossary

Pāṇinidarśana (पाणिनिदर्शन) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—the 13th chapter of the Sarvadarśanasaṃgraha.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

Pāṇinidarśana (पाणिनिदर्शन):—[=pāṇini-darśana] [from pāṇini > pāṇina] n. Name of [chapter] of [Sarvadarśana-saṃgraha]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary
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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.

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