Download or read book Pāṇini, His Work and Its Traditions: Background and introduction written by George Cardona and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume of a study of Panini`s work, its antecedents. and the traditions of interpretation and analysis to which it gave rise. This revised second editon included the text of Panini`s Astadhyayi with indications of changes that were introduced to this text and a discussion concerning such changes. Subsequent volumes take up in full detail issues of interpretation, method, and theory associated with the Astadhyayi. This first volume is meant to provide a basic for such detailed discussions.