________________ xvii language were woven appropriately and conveniently into the fabric of Bhasa. However, if a particular construction is predominantly found in the Vedic language and only exceptionally in the Bhasa, for instance, the suffix kvasu-vas, the grammatical statement in such a case is in terms of the facts of the Vedic language67. His data includes linguistic items and usages collected from different regions of the country where the language was in use. He discusses structural peculiarities of personal names-formal or nicknames; names of villages, towns and cities, wells, fields, highways, etc.; names of articles of food, dress, games, sports, etc.; utterances spoken in jest; language of philosophical discussions, logical argumentation, sacrificial and ritual formulae, recitation of Vedic texts-loud or silent; items relating to agriculture, trade, occupations, education, religion, religious sects, medicine, administration, etc. Even items of meta-language rightfully belong to his corpus (6.3.6-7; 7.3.67; 8.3.86). Whatever could be conceived or talked about through the medium of speech by native speakers is legitimate and appropriate data for him for linguistic analysis and description. The enormous extent and vast range of linguistic expressions surveyed and scrutinized by him is indeed bewildering68. - 3.9. The grammar of Panini, which is looked upon as the standard one at present, gives about a hundred technical terms, more than two thousand suffixes, about two thousand primary roots and more than five thousand special words arranged in more than two hundred and fifty classes according to special grammatical peculiarities shown by each class. The number of independent primary words, besides these five thousand special words, if roughly estimated, may exceed even twenty-five thousand. Besides these primary roots, primary nouns, affixes and technical terms in different sastras, there is a vast number of secondary roots and secondary nouns, which is rather impossible even to be approximately determined69 Panini's grammar has been evaluated from various points of view. After all the different evaluations, Cardona thinks the grammar merits asserting, with Bloomfield, that it is one of the greatest monuments of human intelligence?.. 3.10. Karyayana, also called Vararuci, is held with high respect next to Panini as a muni in the trio (tri-muni) celebrated in the Paninian tradition. Yudhisthira Mimamsaka has noticed six Karyayanas, out of which one of them was the son of Yajnavalkya. Our Katyayana Vararuci was the son of this Katyayana and the grandson of Yajnavalkya. He is the author of the Vartikas on Panini's Astadhyayi. He was a southerner. Many of his Vartikas bear close resemblance with the sutras of Sukla-Yajurveda Pratisakhya. The Vartika-patha
