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Panini

Ancient philologist who standardized classical Sanskrit through grammatical rules

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Born: 520 BCE
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1.Stated in MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
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Died: 460 BCE
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1.Stated in MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
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Birthplace: Shalatula
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1.pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=3583
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Citizenship: Gandhara
Occupation: linguist
, writer
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1.Stated in Library of the World's Best Literature
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, grammarian
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1.bfmtv.com/sciences/un-etudiant-de-cambridge-a-resolu-une-enigme-grammaticale-vieille-de-2500-ans_AN-202212170311.htmlRetrieved 2022-12-17
2.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2026-04-20
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Languages spoken, written or signed: Sanskrit

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Panini was an ancient Indian Sanskrit grammarian and linguist whose masterwork, the Aṣṭādhyāyī, is the foundational text of Vyākaraṇa (linguistics)—one of the six Vedāṅgas of ancient Indian scholarship. He lived during the mid-1st millennium BCE, dated variously by most scholars between the 6th–5th and 4th centuries BCE.

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Sex or gender: male
Name in native language: पाणिनि
Native language: Sanskrit
Field of work: Vyakarana
linguistics
Religion or worldview: Hinduism
Time period: Mahajanapada
Entry in abbreviations table: Pāṇ. used by: A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages
Genre: Sanskrit grammar

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