About a forgotten Grammarian Dhanapāla

0.0. It is a fact well-established since very ancient times but now almost forgotten that a study of the Dhatupathas formed an essential parl in the process of mastering Sanskrit language and literature through that of a traditional system of Sanskrit grammar. The very basis of the Pani- nian School of Grammar was to explain

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नीलांजना शाह परवर्ती ग्रन्थों के उद्धरणों से धातुपाठ के विस्मृत वैयाकरण धनपाल के मत एकत्र करती हैं। लगभग १०५० ई. के क्षीरस्वामी उन्हें कहीं उद्धृत नहीं करते, अतः उनका काल ग्यारहवीं से तेरहवीं शताब्दी के बीच रखा गया है; हेमचन्द्र द्वारा उल्लिखित धनपाल से उनकी अभिन्नता का प्रश्न उठता है। Shah reconstructs the views of Dhanapala, a grammarian on the dhatupatha now forgotten, from citations in later authors. Since Ksirasvamin of about 1050 never quotes him, she places him between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, and asks whether he is the Dhanapala Hemacandra names.

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