Yāska
Sign in to saveYāska (7th–5th century BCE) was an ancient Indian grammarian and Vedic linguist. Preceding Pāṇini (7th–4th century BCE), he is traditionally identified as the author of Nirukta, the discipline of "etymology" (explanation of words) within the Sanskrit grammatical tradition, and the Nighantu, the oldest proto-thesaurus in India. Nirukta is one of the six Vedāṅgas (limbs of the Veda) in Hinduism. Yaska is widely regarded as the precursive founder of the discipline of what would become etymology in both the East and the West.
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- Jâska's Nirukta
- The Nighantu and the Nirukta
- The Nirukta with commentaries
- The Nirukta of Yāska
- The Nighaṇṭu and the Nirukta
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- Scholar.name
- Yāska
- Scholar.birth_date
- 7th–5th century BCE
- Scholar.era
- Late Vedic period
- Scholar.main_interests
- Sanskrit grammarian
- Scholar.notable_ideas
- Grammar, Linguistics, Etymology
- Scholar.major_works
- Nirukta, Nighantu
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8 sectionsContents
- Dating
- Contribution
- Lexical categories and parts of speech
- Words as carriers of meaning: atomism vs. holism debate
- Etymologically, nouns originate from verbs
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Yāska (7th–5th century BCE) was an ancient Indian grammarian and Vedic linguist. Preceding Pāṇini (7th–4th century BCE), he is traditionally identified as the author of Nirukta, the discipline of "etymology" (explanation of words) within the Sanskrit grammatical tradition, and the Nighantu, the oldest proto-thesaurus in India. Nirukta is one of the six Vedāṅgas (limbs of the Veda) in Hinduism. Yaska is widely regarded as the precursive founder of the discipline of what would become etymology in both the East and the West.
==Dating== Pāṇini cites at least ten grammarians and linguists before him. According to Sumitra Mangesh Katre, the ten Vedic scholar names he quotes are of Apisali, Kashyapa, Gargya, Galava, Cakravarmana, Bharadvaja, Sakatayana, Sakalya, Senaka and Sphotayana.