[INDOLOGY] 'catching the ocean in a cow's hoofprint'

[Madhav Deshpande]

It is evident to me that Vikram Chandra has misunderstood the negative
context of the description of Pāṇini's grammar as a goṣpada.  The verse
that I have cited says that Pāṇini's grammar is a goṣpada compared to the
ocean of Indra's grammar.  But he does not cite this verse, and may have
received some second-hand information.

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]


On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 8:59 AM Nagaraj Paturi via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> I came across this paper on a academia:
>
>
> https://www.academia.edu/39702522/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini_Catching_the_Ocean_in_a_Cows_Hoofprint
>
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 9:42 PM Antonia Ruppel via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> In the BBC radio series 'Incarnations', the episode on Pāṇini is entitled
>> 'Catching the Ocean in a Cow's Hoofprint', which it says is a description
>> of what Pāṇini's work achieved.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me what the source of this expression specifically in
>> reference to Pāṇini is? Textual/online searches for goṣpada- have not led
>> me very far - but maybe I've been looking for the wrong word?
>>
>> (In case anyone doesn't know 'Incarnations' and wants to listen to any of
>> the episodes:
>> https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05rptbv/episodes/downloads)
>>
>> Many thanks and all the best,
>>      Antonia
>>
>> —
>> Dr Antonia Ruppel
>> University of Oxford
>>
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