Paninian Studies

Author(s): Ashok Aklujkar
Publisher: Ashok Aklujkar

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Paninian Studies: Professor S.D. Joshi felicitation volume. Ed. Deshpande, Madhav M; and Bhate, Saroja. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Centre for South and Southeast Asian Studies, no. 37. 1991
Ashok Aklujkar
1.1 The first two parts of this study were published in the Adyar Library Bulletin (1981:581-601, Dr. K. Kunjunni Raja Felicitation Volume) and in Indological and Buddhist Studies: Volume in Honour of Professor J. W. de Jong on his Sixtieth Birthday (Canberra: Australian National University, Faculty of Asian Studies, 1982, pp. 1-10). I am happy that this third part is also appearing in a volume dedicated to a scholar who has contributed substantially to our understanding of Sanskrit śāstras.
1.2 Vākya padīya (VP in abbreviation) 2.486, the first word of which I intend to discuss here, runs thus: parvatād āgamam labdhvā bhāşya-bījānusāribhiḥ / sa nito bahuśākhatvām candrācāryādibhiḥ punaḥ // The question of the precise import of this verse has given rise to a substantial body of literature extending over 125 years (Aklujkar 1978:9). As I have already examined this literature directly and indirectly in the publications mentioned above, I shall merely state here that I prefer to translate the verse along the following lines: 'Having acquired the traditional knowledge from parvata, Candrācārya and others, who followed the indications in the Bhāşya, again made it (i.e., the