Pāṇini
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The greatest linguist of antiquity Pāṇini.. was the greatest linguist of antiquity, and deserves to be treated as such.
Modern bust of Panini
Stamp of India depicting Pāṇini (2004)
Salatura
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Śalātura was the birthplace of ancient Indian Sanskrit grammarian Pāṇini, regarded as the earliest known grammarian whose work has survived into modern times. In an inscription by Siladitya VII of Val
Pāṇini
…of Siladitya VII of the Maitraka dynasty of Vallabhi, he is called Śalāturiya (a man from Salatura), identifying his native place with ancient town of Salatura in Gandhara. This means Pāṇini lived in Salatura in ancient Gandhara, which likely was near Lahor (present day northwest Pakistan), a town at the…
A 17th-century birch bark manuscript of a text based on Pāṇini's grammar from Kashmir
Xuan Zang Statue at Longmen Grottoes, Luoyang, China