Paninidarshana, Pāṇinidarśana, Panini-darshana: 3 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Pāṇinidarśana can be transliterated into English as Paninidarsana or Paninidarshana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
General definition (in Hinduism)
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). [...]
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Pāṇinidarśana (पाणिनिदर्शन) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—the 13th chapter of the Sarvadarśanasaṃgraha.
Pāṇinidarśana (पाणिनिदर्शन):—[=pāṇini-darśana] [from pāṇini > pāṇina] n. Name of [chapter] of [Sarvadarśana-saṃgraha]
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Darshana, Panini.
Full-text: Vyakaranadarshana, Sarvadarshanasamgraha.
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