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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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