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

[Nagaraj Paturi]

I thought it ws a reference to the brevity of AA and its vast coverage.

On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 11:04 PM Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Antonia,
>
>      There is a traditional verse that says that the words used by Vyāsa
> were from the Ocean of Grammar composed by Mahendra.  Those jewels of words
> cannot be found in Pāṇini's grammar which is like a Cow's Hoofprint.  This
> is to say that the so-called ārṣa usages in the Purāṇas are not
> ungrammatical, though they may not fit the [limited] grammar of Pāṇini.
>
> यान्युज्जहार माहेन्द्राद् व्यासो व्याकरणार्णवात् । पदरत्नानि किं तानि
> सन्ति पाणिनिगोष्पदे ।।
>
>     This verse [according to secondary references] is found in Devabodha's
> commentary on the Mahabharata.
>
> 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 8:12 AM 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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Nagaraj Paturi

Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.


Director,  Inter-Gurukula-University Centre , Indic Academy
BoS, MIT School of Vedic Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra
BoS, Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, Veliyanad, Kerala
BoS Veda Vijnana Gurukula, Bengaluru.
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FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,
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