Dr Shivamurthy Shivacharaya Mahaswamiji (of
Sri Taralabalu Mutt, Sirigere, Karnataka) has requested me to forward
the following link to the list:
Panini Sutras: Claim made by the Cambridge University researcher is
illogical, invalid and misleading: http://math.taralabalu.in/news.php?tp=1901
Readers may know the swami as one of the main organizers of the 1997
World Sanskrit Conference in Bangalore and as the developer of the
Pāṇinian computer software Gaṇakaṣṭadhyāyī (https://www.taralabalu.org/panini/).
Using the software, the swami concludes: ‘There is no puzzle to crack
in the Panini Sutra “1.4.2 - vipratiṣedhe param kāryam”. This Sutra is
well understood in the Indian tradition of grammarians. The researcher
only is misinterpreting it to his convenience. The traditional
understanding of this Sutra is: “In the event of a conflict between two
rules of equal strength, the rule that comes later in the grammar’s
serial order wins”. But the researcher tries to reject this meaning.’
Robert Zydenbos
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Prof. Dr. Robert J. Zydenbos / ಪ್ರೊ.
ಡಾ. ರೊಬೆರ್ತ್ ಜೆಯ್ದೆನ್ಬೊಸ್
Institute of Indology and Tibetology
Department of Asian Studies
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (University of Munich – LMU)
Germany