The Ashtadhyayi is Panini's grammar of Sanskrit, composed in roughly four thousand algebraic-style rules organized in eight chapters. It is the earliest surviving complete grammatical description of a natural language and remains a foundational text in the history of linguistics.
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AuthorPanini
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This source names Sanskrit directly: "The Ashtadhyayi is Panini's grammar of Sanskrit, composed in roughly four thousand algebraic-style rules organized in eight chapters."
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