MAM102 – Vyākaraṇa 1

Description

Objective
– To provide an introduction and background of the Vyākaraṇa and allied Vedāṅgas,
pre-Pāṇinian and Pāṇinian tradition of Vyākaraṇa

Expected
Outcomes:

·       Ability
to understand the architecture of Aṣṭādhyāyī as a treatise of language
structure

·       Ability
to independently study Aṣṭādhyāyī with allied texts

·       Comprehend
the computational model of Sanskrit grammar as propounded in Aṣṭādhyāyī

Prerequisite – None

1.1.         
Introduction to Vyākaraṇa: [3 hours]

·      
Vedic limbs pertaining to language (Sanskrit)
– Śikṣā,
Nirukta and Vyākaraṇa

·      
Sanskrit – Vedic and Laukika

1.2.         
Pāṇini, his predecessors and successors [3 hours]

·      
Tradition of Vyākaraṇa
known preceding Pāṇini

·      
Contribution of Pāṇini
as the holistic grammarian and language scientist

·      
Pāṇini
and his successors – the unbroken lineage of Vyākaraṇa

1.3.         
Structure of Aṣṭādhyāyī
[9 hours]

·      
The Māheśvara
sūtras

·      
Types of sūtras

·      
General introduction to contents of
the chapters of Aṣṭādhyāyī

·      
Computation model of Aṣṭādhyāyī

·      
Data vs meta data

·      
Usage of artificial categories for
a real purpose

·      
Universal grammar

·      
Introduction to Mahābhāṣya
and Kāśikā

1.4.         
Siddhānta-kaumudī model [3
hours]

·       Rationale
of application of sūtras in the Siddhānta-kaumudī
model over the Aṣṭādhyāyī
model [2 hours]

·      
Overview of chapterization in Siddhānta-kaumudī [1 hour]

1.5.         
Aṣṭādhyāyī – sañjñā and paribhāṣā sūtra text (along with Kāśikā) [12 hours]