Pāṇini was a distinguished grammarian, logician, philologist, and esteemed scholar of Ancient India, active during the mid-1st millennium BCE, with most scholars dating his life between the sixth–fifth and fourth centuries BCE. His most significant contribution, the Ashtadhyayi (Devanagari: अष्टाध्यायी), is widely regarded as the beginning of Classical Sanskrit. This work systematically codified Classical Sanskrit as a polished and standardized language, employing a sp ... (Read More)