Sumitra M. Katre.
Astadhyayi of Panini in Roman transliteration by.
Very Good.
Dust jacket has a few closed tears at edge as well as light unobtrusive soiling and creasing. Full title page has an unobtrusive closed tear top right. Otherwise, a clean copy of this scarce book.
"Panini's grammar of Sanskrit, written in the sixth century B.C., is the earliest linguistic description of the language and is the source and inspiration for the development of comparative philology and modern linguistics. The Astadhyāyī remains the most correct and complete grammar ever written and is considered a model for all grammars.
Sumitra M. Katre's expert translation of the Aştādhyāyī is the first English translation of the work to use Roman transliteration for the Sanskrit text. Not only scholars of Sanskrit but also general linguists will find accessible this new presentation of the classic work, which relies on the Roman alphabet's upper- and lower-case letters, italics, and small capitals to visually present the operation of Panini's metalinguistic technique. This work also consistently indicates the manner in which the ellipsis created by the formulation of Panini's strings of aphoristic rules is to be filled in by using his own metalinguistic procedures. Included are helpful appendices and lists."
