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THE GRRAMMATICAL TRADITION
प्रायेण संक्षेपरूचीनल्प विद्या परिग्रहान् । संप्राप्य वैयाकरणान् संग्रहेऽस्तमुपागते ।। कृतेऽथ पतञ्जलिना गुरूणा तीर्थदशिना । सर्वेषां न्यायबीजानां महाभाष्ये निबन्धने ।। अलब्धगाधे गाम्भीर्यादुत्तान इव सौष्ठवात् । तस्मिन्न कृतबुद्धीनां नैवावास्थित निश्चयः ।। वैजिसौ भवहर्यक्षः शुष्कतर्कानुसारिभिः । आर्षे विप्लाविते ग्रंथे संग्रह प्रतिकञ्चुके ।। यः पतञ्जलिशिष्येभ्यो भ्रष्टो व्याकरणागमः । काले स दक्षिणात्येषु ग्रन्थमात्र व्यवस्थितः ।। पर्वतादागमं लब्ध्वा भाष्यबीजानुसारिभिः । सनीतो बहुशाखत्वं चन्द्राचार्यादिभिः पुनः ।। न्याय प्रस्थानमार्गास्तानभ्यस्य स्वं च दर्शनम् ।
प्रणीतो गुरुणाऽस्माकमयमागम संग्रहः ।। When due to decline in the intellectual powers of grammarians and due to taste for brevity and little effort, the study of the great Sangraha of Vyādi came to an end, the great master Patañjali who knew all the traditions had incorporated all its ideas in his Mahābhāsya. It was atonce deep and lucid but the immature could not fully grasp it.
People like Baiji, Saubhava and Haryaksa, mere logic-choppers played havoc with work which was really an epitome of the great Sangraha. In this way, the great Grammatical Tradition slipped away from the hands of the disciples of Patañjali and in time, the mere text of it survived in the South.
Candrācāya and others, searching for the ideas of the Mahābhāsya at last got the tradition from the Triliñga country, near the Triküța mountain. After studing these ideas and after doing his own think. ing and cultivating his own discipline this collection of traditions was composed by our Teacher, is Vasurata.
-Bhartrhari
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