Deeds are not accomplished by means of ambitions but by means of effort alone.

Indeed, deer don't enter the mouth of the sleeping lion.

Minimum unit is a word in syntax.
SAMHITA - memorization methods.
Mulam
next padapatha
krama
shikha
mala
ratha
danda
dvaja
ganA
- Etymology Book by Yaska
naama
aakhyaata
upasarga
nipaata
before Panini (6th cent. BCE)
- Panini
8 chapters
4 subsections (paadaah)
- sutra upa
mAtrA
laghu is 1
guru is 2
any consonant is 1/2
shortness is the basic principle of sutra literature
the form of the text is more like a software program
it is not a sanskrit primer
Principles of understanding the text:
1. - shortening (e.g. or )
2. () - letters with a purpose in the system but not in the language (e.g. vs.
) and each of them specificies particular roles

3. - when a word is assumed to be repeated throughout the text until another

competent word appears or as designated by a rule (e.g. )
Even the declensional cases have idiomatic meanings in Paninis Text.
kim vaktavyam
grammar
varttikam
mahabhasya - patanjali
kashikA vRddhiH - jayaditya vAmana - gloss with examples
prakriyA - process, describes the process of word derivation, although descriptive it has
become prescriptive, rearrangements of paninian sutras, with respect to a rupa-siddhi
PrakiyA KaumudI - very famous text 16th or 17th century
This and other later texts aim at teaching Sanskrit rather than merely
documenting its rules.
SiddhAnta granthAH
vyAkaraNaM - the face of the vedas (6 angas)
vAkyapadIya - this and later texts began moving beyond the superficial elements
of grammar and began to wonder about the processes of understanding.
notion of abda brahman
Abdabodha - how cognition takes place through works
SUTRA TYPES
1. - definitions (definitions)
2. - axioms (metalinguistic rules)
e.g.
If there are two rules applicable at the same time, the later rule is applied.
(Rules continuously increase in strength)
e.g.
-- (objects with markers before objects with markers)
e.g. (6th class indicates substitution)
(When it is 7th case, the former is indicated,
when something is indicated by 5th case, then it is the later one)
e.g. Whatever is stated here is unestablished for (does not apply
to) the preceding.
3. - statements in the contrived language
According to increasing rule strength, the text is divided into two parts:
a. the first 7 and the first of the 8th section
b. the three remaining padas

 (Whatever is stated here is unestablished for (does not apply to)

the preceding.)
In the first section, rule application can jump around, while in the second, it moves only
in increasing order toward the end of the section.

SUP and TING:

sup - declensional suffixes
- - - (nominative)
ting - verbal suffixes

that which is as brief as possible not unclear, possessed of essence, covering all sides
of the topic Without frills, and faultless, Sutra-knowers know as sutra,


that text where worry regarding the adding, newly adding, and deleting is made
the wise knowers of the varttikas call varttikam


that Wherein the meaning of the sutra is explained with the words which follow the sutra
and [that in which] auto commentary is given. commentary knowers know as bhasyam