Dear Sri Rajagopalan :
Thanks very much for your note .
PaNini's ashtAdhyAyi is the condensaton of Vedic sage's insights on
Grammar and a build up on that infra structure to mkae sure that
the Vedic way of speech is preserved . PaaNIni lived around 4th Century B.C
in what is today modern day Pakistan on the bank of Indus . His great Text for
Grammar written in Brahmi script during the post-Vedic period has 3959 SoothrAs
(Aphorisms) . Adhi Sanakra in his Bhaja Govindham used to make fun of an old man
in VaraNAsi , who was learning AshtAdhyAyee ( na hi nahi rakshathi DukkunkaraNE
,
Bhaja Govindham instead ) . Panini in his master work refers to 10 grammarians
before him . His exactitude and rigor has not been seen its match in the
grammars of Greek -Latin ,
Hebrew and semantic languages . Today the formal language of Computers are
trying
to study AshtAdhyAyi ( Ref: ongoing CDAC work ) from a computational
linguistics
point of view (Does PaaNIni SoothrAs amenable for expalnation using a meta
Language etc )..
PaNini 's work deals with the phenomes , Morpheme and the root to derive the
rules
of Sanskrit Morphology . It is a limb of VedAs in that context .
Sage Patanjali , who wrote the MahA BhAshyam commented on the 8 chapters of
PaaNIni ( AshtAdhyAyee) around 200B.C and the VaartikAs of KaatyAyana dealing
with AshtAdhyAyee .
VyAkaraNa Saasthram is taught in MadhurAnthakam School of Ahobila Matam and
elesewhere today . For some , it may be a very dry subject .
Personally , the Bhakti approach and SaraNAgathi approach is more appealing to
me than
the esoteric but essential subjects like VyAkaraNam , For a well rounded
person ofcourse intersted
in studying great Sri Sookthis like Sri Bhaashyam of AchArya RaamAnuja , Tarkam
and VyAkaraNam
are a must .
Hanumaan's recognition as Nava VyAkaraNa PaNdithar is linked to his Mastery of
nine kinds of Grammar . The meaning of Nava representing a new kind of grammar
does not apply here .
In answer to your other question , JyOthishanm is another vast Vedic angam .
It will take years to master that limb of VedAs as well .
Best Wishes ,
V.Sadagopan
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