Pānini - Pānini (English spelling)

Japanese: パーニニ - ぱーにに(英語表記)Pāini
Pānini - Pānini (English spelling)

Date of birth and death unknown. A famous grammarist from ancient India around the 5th to 4th century BC. A native of northwestern India. He is immortalized for his work Aādhyāyi (also known as Pānini Grammar). This work symbolizes the rules of Sanskrit grammar and summarizes them in an extremely concise style. It not only provided classical Sanskrit with a "correct" (Sanskrit) standard, but also led to the systematization of grammar as a completely independent academic field rather than merely a supplement to the Vedas. Pānini's grammar not only provided a solid foundation for the subsequent development of grammar in India, but also contributed in no small way to the development of modern linguistics.

[Michihiko Yajima, July 20, 2018]

[References] | Sanskrit | Grammar Schools

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

生没年不詳。紀元前5~前4世紀ころの古代インドの著名な文典家。西北インドの人。その著『アシュターディヤーイー』Aādhyāyī(『パーニニ文典』とも)によって不朽の名を残す。本書は、サンスクリット語の文法規則を記号化し、きわめて簡潔な文体でまとめたものだが、これにより古典サンスクリットが「正しい(サンスクリタ)」規範を与えられたと同時に、文法学も単なるベーダの補助学から、完全に一つの独立した学問として体系組織化されるに至った。パーニニの文典はその後のインドにおける文法学の発達に確かな礎(いしずえ)を提供したばかりでなく、近代言語学の発達にも少なからず貢献している。

[矢島道彦 2018年7月20日]

[参照項目] | サンスクリット語 | 文法学派

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