Rishi Rajpopat— Paninian Grammar

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Ramesh Rao

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Dec 14, 2022, 11:01:30 PM12/14/22
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Nagaraj Paturi

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Dec 14, 2022, 11:22:21 PM12/14/22
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Thanks, Ramesh Rao avare for sharing this. 

IndicA is going to organize a talk by Dr Rishi Rajput on this topic soon. 

Scholars with abhinivesha in Indic Knowlege Systems in general  , Panini's VyaakaraNa in particular,  will be able to hear it all directly from him and interact with him. 

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Nagaraj Paturi

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Dec 14, 2022, 11:26:12 PM12/14/22
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Excerpt from this article :

Leading Sanskrit experts have described Rajpopat's discovery as "revolutionary" and it could now mean that Pāṇini's grammar can be taught to computers for the first time.

While researching his Ph.D. thesis, published today, Dr. Rajpopat decoded a 2,500 year old algorithm that makes it possible, for the first time, to accurately use Pāṇini's "language machine."

Pāṇini's system—4,000 rules detailed in his greatest work, the Aṣṭādhyāyī, which is thought to have been written around 500 BC—is meant to work like a machine: Feed in the base and suffix of a word and it should turn them into grammatically correct words and sentences through a step-by-step process.

Until now, however, there has been a big problem. Often, two or more of Pāṇini's rules are simultaneously applicable at the same step, leaving scholars to agonize over which one to choose.

Solving so-called "rule conflicts," which affect millions of Sanskrit words including certain forms of "mantra" and "guru," requires an algorithm. Pāṇini taught a metarule to help us decide which rule should be applied in the event of "rule conflict," but for the last 2,500 years, scholars have misinterpreted this metarule, meaning that they often ended up with a grammatically incorrect result.

In an attempt to fix this issue, many scholars laboriously developed hundreds of other metarules, but Dr. Rajpopat shows that these are not just incapable of solving the problem at hand—they all produced too many exceptions—but also completely unnecessary. Rajpopat shows that Pāṇini's "language machine" is self-sufficient.

Hari Parshad Das

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Dec 15, 2022, 7:19:31 AM12/15/22
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attached
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Hari Parshad Das

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Dhiren N. Sheth

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Dec 15, 2022, 8:12:21 AM12/15/22
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This is an exciting development for sure.

 

Thanks to Indica for taking the lead to organise the talk with the young scholar.

 

Meanwhile it will be interesting to hear from other Grammar experts on this group about what they think about this new discovery of sorts.

 

Neelesh Bodas ji, your views please?

 

 

Best Regards

Dhiren N. Sheth

Hari Parshad Das

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Dec 15, 2022, 8:40:10 AM12/15/22
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In the thesis (that I have uploaded above in this thread), the author himself acknowledges (on pages 83,84) that his solution doesn't work while deriving the term — trayāṇām, and gives an incorrect solution. He them himself gives a "speculative" (in his own words) reasoning for why it doesn't work. He says that the earlier Vedic form was trīṇām and it later got fully replaced by the newer form trayāṇām. He then also speculates that someone inserted the sūtra trestrayaḥ (7.1.53) to the Aṣṭādhyāyī to justify the form "trayāṇām".

All this speculation may look good for a PhD thesis, but I'm not sure how well it will go down with those who side with the traditional commentators. I surmise that those who side with the tradition will say that it is still best to interpret the sūtra as Patañjali did — iṣṭa-vāci para-śabdaḥ, vipratiṣedhe paraṁ yad iṣṭaṁ tad bhavati (Mahābhāṣyam on 1.1.3).

I think we should wait before declaring that the entire tradition was incorrect for thousands of years.

sādhu-caraṇa-rajo'bhilāṣī,

hari pārṣada dāsa.

M V S Siva Prasad

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I have a query sir.

Is there exists any possibility to generate employment opportunities via programming to Sanskrit students basing on this discovery.

If possibility exists then that will be highly appreciated in developing the opportunities for Sanskrit graduates and post graduates.

I hope there is a need of p.hd thesis regarding the employment opportunities for Sanskrit students etc.  

Atleast a workshop/seminar/paper presentations etc regarding -
' Employment opportunities for Sanskrit Graduates and Post Graduates '. Is also a good one. 

Iam requesting the INDIC Academy to have a seminar / workshop/ presentations etc. on this specifically sir. 

Pardon me for inconvenience if any.




Nagaraj Paturi

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Dec 15, 2022, 9:42:51 AM12/15/22
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Dear Sri M V Siva Prasad garu,

" Employment opportunities for Sanskrit graduates and post-graduates" in general is a different topic outside the present thread. 

Employment opportunities that Ashtadhyayi based programming can generate may be slightly indirectly / remotely connected to the present discussion. 

More basic than that is claims like "Pāṇini's grammar can be taught to computers for the first time." , "Rajpopat shows that Pāṇini's "language machine" is self-sufficient."

Those may be discussed by the experts in that field of study. 

Even if the claims indicate even remotely or indirectly any new employment generation, the prospective applicants / candidates for such jobs are not general graduates and post graduates in Sanskrit, but those who focus specially on the prakriyaa side of VyaakaraNa and acquire sufficient skills in that direction. 

Please start a new thread on " Employment opportunities for Sanskrit graduates and post-graduates" in general, if that is what you are interested in. 

BVK Sastry (G-S-Pop)

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Namaste Siva Prasad ji

 

Excellent Practical question .

 

Please tell me  who /which team/ which Language institute and Techno-linguistic team is WILLING TO INVEST TIME – ENERGY – FUNDS as INPUT RESOURCES for the cherished Goal ?

To explore JOB POTENTIAL  :  ‘NATURAL PANINI –SAMSKRUTH – LANGUAGE- PROGRAMMING’ Framework ?  Global corporates have invested heavily on this area to explore the utility of Panini for the Advanced A.I and Intelligent Systems Interfaces, because they have invested and studied the Practical benefit of Panini Language Model for Technology based Profession – Job- Economy related manifestations.

 

What we seem to have by default is ‘Anglicized Model of Devanagari script processing’ decorated as ‘Programmed Sanskrit’ to be proud of.

When people want ‘Food delivered via online order’,  who is ready to work in the farm to till the land and grow crops ?  

 

Are you one of those enthusiasts willing  to be a part of the team to work –toil for the above goal ? Pl. let me know.

 

It takes a lot more to run this race to deliver:  

     A Programming Language derivative from Panini –Samskrutham : Ashtadhyayi.

 

Regards

BVK Sastry 

ushavishnuvamsi

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कालतो देशतश्च पौर्वापर्यं भवति...शब्दानामुच्चारणेन लेखनेन वा वर्णानामभिव्यक्ति: जायते.... यस्य वर्णस्य प्रथममभिव्यक्ति: जायते स पूर्व इति, यस्य पश्चात् स पर इति च लोके वेदे शास्त्रे च व्यवहार: ... श्रीमत ऋषिपोपटस्य नवीनं मतं न युक्तं, वामत आरभ्य दक्षिणत: लेखने सति यो यो वर्णो दक्षिणत: लिख्यते स स पर इति व्यवहारो यद्यपि आधुनिके काले युक्त इति प्रतीयेत तथापि सोपि अभिव्यक्तिपश्चात्त्ववशादेव .... पाणिनिकाले लेखनपद्धति: न तथा सार्वत्रिक आसीत्, अत: पाणिनेर्व्याकरणसूत्राणां प्रवृत्ति: लेखनकृतपौर्वापर्यमादायैव इति कथनं निरास्पदं भवति.... तथा स्वीकारश्च न कालकृतव्यवहारादन्य: .... अनेन च एकदेशविज्ञानमात्रेण सिद्धान्त: आविष्क्रियते.... अस्य प्रबन्धे दर्शिता प्रक्रिया तस्य अल्पज्ञतां सूचयति..... एकमुदाहरणम् - त्रि आम् इति स्थिते प्रथमं नुटि त्रेस्त्रय इति सूत्रं न प्रवर्तिष्यत इति वदति स: ... यदागमपरिभाषया अनागमकानां सागमका आदेशा इति न्यायमाश्रित्य स्थानिवद्भावेन वा नुडागमोत्तरमपि त्रयादेश: प्रवर्तत एव.... किञ्च शब्दपरविप्रतिषेध इति सम्प्रदाये स्वीकृत एव विषय: अनेन वामदक्षिणाश्रयेण पुरस्कृत: .... विष्णुनम्पूतिरि: 

ushavishnuvamsi

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एवं स्थिते अहमत्र महाजनान् पृच्छामि - Cambridge University ईदृशम् एकदेशिकृतमल्पं प्रबन्धं सम्यगपरीक्ष्य कथं वा उपाधि प्रयच्छति? एतेन तस्य विश्वविद्यालयस्यैव अप्रामाणिकता खलु प्रकाशिता? अहं तु ऋषिपोपटम् तदीयपरिश्रमं नितरामभिनन्दामि.... परन्तु अल्पो घटो घोषमुपैति नित्यमिति सुभाषितं स्मारयितुमिच्छामि.... "2500 वत्सरान्ते मया पाणिनितन्त्रे अद्य्यपर्यन्तम् अनुद्घाटितस्य रहस्यस्य उद्घाटनकीलकं Yurekka" इति आहोपुरुषिकां जेगीयमानान् नेनिन्द्यामहेतमाम्

Nagaraj Paturi

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https://indianexpress.com/article/puzzles-and-games/info/rishi-rajpopat-cambridge-panini-ashtadhyayi-sanskrit-grammar-metarule-problem-nlp-artificial-intelligence-linguistics-ancient-india-832681/

‘Eureka’ moment for Indian at Cambridge, as he solves 2500-year-old Sanskrit language problem

Dr Rishi Rajpopat has solved a loophole in the ‘Ashtadhyayi’, allowing Panini's Sanskrit grammar to be taught to computers for the first time.


Vichitra Thandava

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Dec 15, 2022, 9:52:26 PM12/15/22
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Rajpopat says that the ancient grammarian Katyayana, who wrote an elaborate commentary on Panini's work, was aware of BOTH interpretations of the rule but chose the other one.  In that sense, it is useful to understand why he chose the other one when Rajpopat's says his pick of the two fits better... 

Also, how is it that no one else revisited Katyayana's interpretation...for India had Sanskrit friendly ruling establishments for at least a thousand years after Katyayana. 

Vijaender 

M V S Siva Prasad

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Dec 15, 2022, 9:52:27 PM12/15/22
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Respected Nagaraj Paturi sir ,

Namaste sir .

I accept that there exists a deviation because of the seperate topic employement oppurtunities .I raised beyond the issue it seems. Pardon me for that. 

Respected BVK SASTRY sir , please provide me your personal e.mail or contact me via
So that we can exchange the ideas of the concerned issue . 
Personal exchange of ideas is a better one than going in a common platform . 

So please provide me your e.mail or contact me via above email id sir.

Thank you sir.

Namaste.

On Thu, 15 Dec, 2022, 11:01 pm BVK Sastry (G-S-Pop), <sastr...@gmail.com> wrote:

Nagaraj Paturi

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Dec 15, 2022, 10:44:05 PM12/15/22
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Thanks Sri Hari Parshad Das ji and Prof Ushavishnuvamsi ji for focusing on the content of the Thesis. 

Sri Hari Parshad Das ji, you seem to have done a close reading of the dissertation itself. Thanks for your insightful observations. 

 

Hari Parshad Das

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Dec 15, 2022, 11:52:52 PM12/15/22
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Thank you Dr. Paturi. It's amusing to see how the university-media eco system works in the west. He is all over the news now. A part of me wishes that some of our university vidvans would also get such coverage for their genuine research. 

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Namaste Shiva prasad ji

1 I have sent a direct mail, copied to you for enabling off- forum interaction.

2.   Please share your contact info/ phone/ address to reach you out.

3.   Surely we can have a focused discussion on  ‘How to’  plans on delivering

         < A Programming Language derivative for Panini –Samskrutham using Ashtadhyayi.> .

      Anyone willing to join are welcome to this Special Interest Group.

      The focus is on ‘Samskrutham: Utility for Productization -Techno-Commercial applications’.

      Welcome to other sympathizers focused on defending  fronts of ‘Culture and Religion’.

             ( I always recall the importance of ‘Viniyoga-question  made by my good friend Dr. Yadu  demanding

              answer to the question : ‘kasmai’ – For whose benefit (classical approach) –  ‘mama kim’ ?  What is in it for

             me ( Modern lingo)  ‘ Rashtra- Praja hitam kim? What is in it for Nation – Next Generation ( Quest from Gita studies). 

 

4.  The following should be obvious enough by this time as to focus of interaction:

 

      - That proposed work needs proactive resources to strongest counter from ‘Home  Pitch’.

      - This would / need to  emerge as a ‘Public-Private- Partnered- Battle: Bharata-Bhashaa-Kurushetra. 

      -  This is NOT a social media ‘ Forward – likes’ game !

      - There is  a critical  need to address the challenge of aggressive infusion of Anglicized

         Technology (as given) through ‘Techno-Linguistic Gateway, which is corrosively digesting

         Panini-Patanjali Brahmi- (Vak)Yoga-Samskrutham Model and Standards in to Anglicized

          technology (as given) through the artefact of ‘Romanized representation of Language

         elements’  for Techno-linguistic processing.

    - The victory mark is Bharath -Bhashaa-Tanra -Vijnana- Atma Nirbharataa::

             Freedom for Digital Processing of  Indic Language’s from Colonial Techno-linguistics- 

             dependency. (Angleya -roopaka-daasyataa- rahita – Bharatha Brahmi Bhashaa-

             Ganaka- Tantra jnana–Swaatantrya). 

    - This ‘Language- Technology Battle’ involves recognizing and overcoming challenges in

       ‘sva-jana- vishaada’  blurring ‘Vedanga: Panini- Samskrutham: Brahmi language modelling.

        The  core of  this ‘Bhashaa –Dharma- Vishaada’ is  due to 5M driven- self embraced ideology:

          Sanskrit is like English / Like Any other human societal language of historical and

            mediaeval civilizations.

         Therefore, in Globalized Village era,  ‘Sanskrit should iconize English for Techno-evolution

         to survive and deliver  economic and employment benefits on national and global scale

          like ‘(current) English (UK/ USA model - ?? ).

          The new format of old slogan reads : ‘Sanskrit is good for A.I’.   [ in the place of ‘Sanskrit is good for computers.].

      Like ‘Mahabharata – Dharmaraja’s statement : Give us five houses a least in your Kingdom, so that we live and avert the ‘ fratricidal genocidal battle’. We value ‘Peace, We are willing to embrace poverty to give ‘Peace’ (- without Pride of self- Identity ?).   

      The unresolved, less debated, poorly presented, sprinkled generously with lots of complacency issue  being:

      Why a 6000 + years old language is struggling to deliver what a social language derivative,  with just a six plus decade has delivered to improvise  technology ? gives power to  very select global corporate ?

      Why is ‘English  based technology widely –wildly – willingly consumed by non-english language societies and Nations ?  NEP stresses ‘Regional Language Programming’. It is NOT ‘ Regional Language characters embedding and screen  graphic- visual – spread sheet processed result displaying’  using the ‘ stage provided by choice Programming language processing romanized representation of language character-codes.

      The quantum solace held on is Anglicization of Sanskrit is not a threat !’  Contra , It is a panacea  as Anglicization Upgrade as Romanization of Devanagari, which  must be willingly embraced for National Advantage (?) as ‘Kaala- Dharma/ Yuga –Dharma/ Bhashaa – Dharma’ .

       

      This ‘ Sva Jana-  DevaBhashaa – Dharma- Vishaada’ is strongly guarded by  the  most sympathetic   Bheeshma Drona like doyens of  ‘Indian- In-House techno-linguists and Social- Sanskritists. 

      The axiomatic outcome  of this ‘ Vishaada’ is seen in fierce counter to any action that upsets  ivory tower of ‘English Iconic (by Likeness and Dependency) for emulation by all World languages !

      The course correction needs Brahmi-Samskruth-Strategic  Investment to Explore afresh the native natural Brahmi Samskrutham Language –Technologies,  to deliver  ‘Panini-Sanskrit-Programming Language solutions, to empower  Sanskrit to work –deliver benefits  like English’.

      There is no luxury of life –time –line here !  Mahabharata war was over in 18 days.

      This ‘Bharath- Bhashaa- Kurukshetra time line may not extend beyond 2030 !  

If I sound as a ‘freaking voice’, pl. pardon me.

I am voicing what global techno-corporate is aiming and boldly  proclaimed and  pressed for action with deep rooted Indic operations going on.

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A full thesis of Rishi Rajpopat

In Panini We Trust - rajpopat_phd_thesis_15_dec_2022.pdf

Vichitra Thandava

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He is in the news because he is claiming to have a solution for a long term vexing issue in computer programming languages with credibility, not because of a linguistic study in Sanskrit.

Computer programming languages have been constructed to circumvent the limitations of precise Grammer, vocabulary, syntax and more in the English language.  So, each computer language, though usually in English, has a defined vocabulary, abbreviations, syntax and the like.... So that a machine understands instructions unambiguously.  But because the language is no longer natural, it requires learning, rote and how to use.  

However, Sanskrit is a natural language that can offer the same level of rule based precision.  That means, potentially, you can communicate instructions just the way you write or speak normally and naturally in Sanskrit, with a machine.  So anyone who knows Sanskrit and it's grammar can even speak or write out instructions to do this or that just as you would to a person to a computer which has been coded to recognize it.  And the machine will be programmed.  That's a powerful departure and can entirely change the world if technology and technology use in every walk of life. 

So armies of people who now have to learn one or the other computer language would need to learn only Sanskrit.  In fact, the programming language could eventually no longer need to be in the technical domain at all. 

Even so, written code is more likely to be in the Roman script not Devnagari and that presents a syntax challenge in itself.  But Sanskrit is older than the script it is in today, and computers are sufficiently advanced to to recognize speech.

Nagaraj Paturi

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I am receiving many individual mails expressing the same sentiment as yours, Sri Hari Parshad Das ji. 

I too see force in that sentiment. 

Sivasenani Nori

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Dec 16, 2022, 1:28:15 PM12/16/22
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The rebuttals have started. This one is in Sanskrit.

Regards 
Senani

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Sivasenani Nori

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I see that Sri Jammalamadaka Srinivas has already posted this. Sorry. S. 

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नमस्ते,

मया तस्य वादः सद्यः परिशीलितः। ममायम् अभिप्रायः - 

प्रक्रियाकाले द्वयोः बहूनां वा सूत्राणां युगपत्प्राप्तौ कस्य सूत्रस्य आदौ प्रवृत्तिः इति प्रश्नः वर्तते वैयकरणानाम्। तत्र कः कं बाधते इति निर्णयार्थम् अनेके उपायाः वैयाकरणैः आश्रिताः। सद्य प्रकाशिते शोधप्रबन्धे राजपोपट् महोदयः विरोधः कदा सम्भवति इति विषये एवं वदति - 

१) एकस्मिन् स्थानिनि (स्थानी इति पदं प्रायः सम्यक् न स्यात्, operands) द्वयोः सूत्रयोः बहूनां वा प्राप्तिः (SOI) 
२) अथवा द्वयोः स्थानिनोः (बहूनां वा) द्वयोः सूत्रयोः (बहूनां वा)  प्रवृत्तिः (DOI) चेत् कदाचित् विरोधः सम्भवति, कदाचित् न। 

यथा राम+भ्यस् इति स्थिते सुपि च ७/३/१०२,  बहुवचने झल्येत् ७/३/१०३ एते सूत्रे राम इति अङ्गस्य स्थाने एव प्रवर्तेते। इति  SOI इत्यस्य उदाहरणम्। 
एवमेव,  देवैः इति रूपे साधनीये देव+भ्यस् इति स्थिते, अतो भिस ऐस् ७/१/९, बहुवचने झल्येत् ७/३/१०३ अनयोः सूत्रयोः प्रथमसूत्रं प्रत्ययस्य स्थाने द्वितीयसूत्रम् अङ्गस्य स्थाने प्रवर्तते। इति DOI इत्यस्य उदाहरणम्।

DOI and SOI, अत्र पुनः द्वैविध्यं सम्भवति। द्वयोः अन्यतरत् अन्यस्मिन् कृते अकृते च प्रवर्तते, द्वयोः अवशिष्टम् अन्यस्मिन् कृते न प्रवर्तते इति इति एकः प्रकारः (सम्प्रदाये अत्र नित्यानित्यविचारः क्रियते), द्वयोः सूत्रयोः परस्परम् अन्यस्य सूत्रस्य प्रवृत्तिं निरुणद्धि इति द्वितीयः प्रकारः। DOI and SOI उभयत्रापि प्रकारद्वयं सम्भवति इत्यतः संहत्य ४ प्रकाराः भवन्ति। कदाचित् द्वयोः कस्यापि सूत्रस्य आदौ प्रवृत्तिः शक्यते, कोपि कमपि न निरुणद्धि इत्यपि अस्ति। इदमपि DOI and SOI उभयत्रापि भवति इत्यतः संहत्य षट्प्रकाराः भवन्ति। तत्र आदौ प्रदर्शितेषु चतुर्षु प्रकारेषु विरोधाः सम्भवन्ति,  अन्त्ययोः न। 

तत्र DOI सम्बद्धविरोधपरिहार्थं विप्रतिषेधे परं कार्यमिति परिभाषा वर्तते। परमित्यस्य अष्टाध्यायीसूत्रक्रमेण परमित्यर्थो न, किन्तु उरण्रपरः, मिदचोन्त्यात्परः इत्यादौ यादृशं परत्वम् आश्रितं तदत्र स्वीकरणीयम्। इदमेव तेन (Right Hand Side) इति उक्तम्। 

SOI सम्बद्धविरोधेषु यत् कार्यं more specific तत् प्रवर्तते। अत्र निरवकाशत्वादिचर्चा उपयुक्ता भवति।

अयं क्रमः आद्रियते चेत् अकृतव्यूहाः पाणिनीयाः, अन्तरङ्गबहिरङ्गपरिभाषा, पूर्वविप्रतिषेधः इत्यादीनाम् आश्रयणेन विना एव प्रक्रिया साधयितुं शक्यते इति तस्य अभिप्रायः। तदर्थम् अङ्गसंज्ञायाः अपि कश्चन अन्यः अर्थः स्वीकरणीयः भवति इति सः अभिप्रैति।

एतस्य विवरणार्थं षष्ट्यधिकोदाहरणानि तेन ग्रन्थे प्रदर्शितानि। तस्य पक्षस्य स्वीकारे स्थानद्वये क्लेशः अपि वर्तते इति तेन प्रदर्शितम्। आगमविषये इतोपि कार्यं कर्तव्यमस्ति इत्यपि उक्तम्। 

इत्येतावत् तस्य प्रबन्धस्य पठनेन मया अवगतम्। अस्मिन् पक्षे लाघवमस्ति इति मे भाति। सर्वाणि तेन दत्तानि उदाहरणानि, तस्य वादस्य बाधकानि च परिशील्य पुनः स्पष्टतया एतद्विषये वक्तुं शक्नोमि।

BVK Sastry (G-S-Pop)

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Namaste

 

My post below is to place the essential challenge articulated via ‘Samskruth- Observation’ in ‘comprehensible English’.    

                 [This is not a line by line translation !]

 

The key question to resolve:  

What is the ‘ Samskruth-language- model’ used in thesis to resolve ‘Samskruth –Grammar- Rule Application Problem’ ?

 

 Is the thesis standing by ‘Panini – Language Model (Deva bhashaa/ Veda –Bhashaa)’ 

                                               OR 

                                               Is thesis compromised on Language Model by mixing up Tower of Babel IE / Historic  –

                                                Linguistics / Oriental Models making a Sanskrit a  social language ?

 

1.   If the ‘Origin’ of the ‘Research Problem’ – has its context in ‘Panini sutra – application of grammar rule  : by order sequence - priority – exceptions filtering -  to arrive at a final ‘desired word- form’, then (a) Panini – Muni-Traya tradition has already figured out this in the past few millennia teaching.

 

The current challenge could have been due to  loss of ‘ Panini –Patanjali Construction method, as we seem to have it now, which might have been lost over / suffered distortions over a period of time line  in transmission.  Bhattoji deekshita, Bhatti, Magha, Sri Harsha,  Bhoja, Sayana Madhava, Jaganantha …. All have  their say on such issues.

So also the western / Oriental scholars who trace a different working path to arrive at a given ‘word- from’ and rule operational procedure. 

 

As a  scholarly study, the thesis is a good exercise to suggest a current faced problem. 

 

2.  Getting back to the ‘onset of problem itself, as imagined (?)- debated in VYAKARANA works,  the ‘ Muni-Traya’ sampradaya has its unique theory on the foundation –fundamentals of ‘Samskruth Language Model’  for which VYAKARANA is an auxiliary study discipline. 

 

Vyakarana provides WORD –FORMATION - GENERATION –VALDIATION – FILTRATION – CONSTRUCTION related  rules . 

Vyakarana is built on a given understanding of ‘SAMSKRUTHAM: Language Model.

Vyakarana is NOT defining the ‘LANGUAGE MODEL’ .

 

Therefore, given thesis as a deep study of  ‘in-house Vyakarana tradition  reviewed and problem resolved’ is fine.

Any flaw here could be set right  by Vidwans.

 

If the thesis has adapted / substituted to compromise on Panini DEVA-BHASHAA- Language-Modelling –Frame, using a ‘NON-NATIVE (Tower of Babel)  I.E - LANGUAGE STREAM MODEL FOR SAMSKRUTHAM’ as FOUNDATIONAL to resolve the ‘ In-House Vyakarana (perceived) problem, then it is NOT acceptable.  This will be a compromise on Panini –Fundamentals.

 

Regards

BVK Sastry

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Hari Parshad Das

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Khandanam of Rishi Rajpopats PhD by Vyakarana Vidushi Smt. Pushpa Dixit.

Ramesh Rao

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I believe engagement is essential in these matters of scholarly work, but engagement should not be characterized as battles and wars.

I hope the thoughtful, sagacious, wise, well-spoken experts and elders will enable the engagement, and that we will not succumb to the temptations of an "us vs. them" battle.

Regards,

Ramesh Rao

Dhiren N. Sheth

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Dec 18, 2022, 10:04:56 AM12/18/22
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Fully agree Ramesh ji.

kenp

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 Is there an online tool for this Sanskrit grammar puzzle? /अस्याः संस्कृतव्याकरणप्रहेलिकायां किं ऑनलाइन-उपकरणम् अस्ति ? 

Hari Parshad Das

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Part 2: Khandanam begins


Vidvans can continue following the Khandanam series on the YouTube channel. 🙏

V Subrahmanian

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Not sure if this audio in English has been posted here already:

On Sun, 18 Dec 2022, 9:20 pm kenp, <

BVK Sastry (G-S-Pop)

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Namaste

 

Rishi Rajpopats Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Vincenzo Vergiani . 

  ‘The Master also shares the blame for students faults’! ( aacharyamaagaccahti shishya doshah).

 

About Thesis guide of Rishi Rajpoot: [ See Below * ]

Profile Page  URL:  Professor Vincenzo Vergiani | Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (cam.ac.uk)

 

Deep question to ponder over:

                  ‘Is Panini Samskrutham Digestible in to

 - IE linguistics frame  (Academics, Religion)

 - Techno-Linguistic Romanized script/ ‘Like English: Programming Language model?

  

Likely Consequences of ‘Bharat Loosing Local- Global power to Voice Samskruth –Acharya Paddahti’

  (a) To Articulate – Invest Timely – Promote Research support and employment  opportunities to hold and build  (b)                National Position on Brahmi- Vak Yoga:  Panini- Patanjali Yoga –Samskrutham ?

 

 

 

 

The motive for such actions do face still opposition from teams seeing     

                      Local gains for pleasing Regional –language / local religion lobbies 

                                and  

                      Long term – global civilizational / Technological / Economic Power  gains from lobbies

                                Providing convenient -bed partnerships through Academia building ‘Sanskrit in likeness of English’

                                and Corporate back – funding ‘Techno-Linguistic Digestion of Panini to English Likeness to build

                                English like Panini-Programming Language’?   

 

 

Who needs to invest  – strive – hold interest to  shape the ‘Future of Samskrutha Bhashaa Paramparaa’ ? How ?

How are Pride Claimers planning to invest proactively beyond soft –social media talk  to guard their ‘Heritage Pride’ ?  to ‘overcome Digestion’?  I am continuously  reminded of Dr. Yadu’s key term ‘ VINIYOGA’.

                                        

I hope some of the readers are familiar with the anguish and observation of Maanyaa Pushpa Dixit on Sanskrit Studies –Resources and Models in post-independence India.

 

About Thesis guide of Rishi Rajpoot: [ See Below * ]

 

Sanskrit Manuscripts Project  :  Biography:   Born and brought up in Naples, I went to university in Rome and did an MA in psychology. After working for a few years as a freelance translator from English and French, I went back to university with the intention to study linguistics. Instead, I ended up becoming a Sanskritist, a turn of events that I have never regretted. I did a second MA in Sanskrit and later a Ph.D. in Classical and Medieval Indian Studies from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. I was lecturer in Indology there for a few years before being hired in Cambridge in 2007.  Between 2005 and 2006 I was affiliated to the EFEO (French School of Asian Studies) in Pondicherry and took this opportunity to begin studying Classical Tamil. In 2011 I was awarded an AHRC Standard Route research grant for the project "The intellectual and religious traditions of South Asia as seen through the Sanskrit manuscript collections of the University Library, Cambridge", which ran from November 2011 to November 2014.

My main areas of research are the history of linguistic ideas and the philosophy of language in ancient India, with a focus on the period from the late first millennium BCE to the early second millennium CE. I am also investigating the role grammar – especially (but not exclusively) Pāṇinian grammar – played in the history of the Sanskrit language and the broader socio-political context of classical and medieval South Asia.

 

At the centre of my interests is the work of Bhartṛhari, the influential 5th-century Brahmanical philosopher known for his innovative views on language and epistemology, and of his 10th-century Kashmiri commentator Helārāja. My long-overdue study and annotated translation of the Sādhanasamuddeśa from the third book of the Vākyapadīya of Bhartṛhari, with the commentary of Helārāja, is now in its final stages of preparation.

 

In the past I have been one of the members of an international team working on the critical edition of the Kāśikā Vṛtti (7th c. CE), the first complete commentary on the Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini, the initial part of which was published in 2009 (Studies in the Kāśikāvṛtti. The section on pratyāhāras).

 

In recent years I have also become interested in the Tamil grammatical tradition and its relation with Sanskrit grammar, as part of the complex process of acculturation of the Dravidian South that took place from the first millennium CE and brought it into the pan-Indian cultural horizon.  In 2009 this led to the organisation in Cambridge of an international workshop on “Bilingualism and Cross-cultural Fertilisation: Sanskrit and Tamil in Mediaeval India”, co-convened with Dr Whitney Cox (then at SOAS), thanks to a British Academy Conference Support Grant.

 

It is Time to go beyond the framework of Intro- ‘Conversational Sanskrit Outreach Model’ ! to ‘Battle Field: Bharath Bhashaa Kurukshetra’.

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BVK Sastry (G-S-Pop)

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BVK Sastry

 

 

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BVK Sastry (G-S-Pop)

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Regards

BVK Sastry

 

 

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BVK Sastry (G-S-Pop)

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BVK Sastry

 

 

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Nagaraj Paturi

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There seems to be some technical glitch. The same message from Dr BVK Sastry avaru is getting posted repeatedly. 

BVK Sastry (G-S-Pop)

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BVK Sastry

 

 

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Hari Parshad Das

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Claims made by Cambridge University Researcher are Illogical, Invalid and Misleading — An article by Sanskrit Vyākaraṇa Vidvān Swami Shivamurthy Shivacharya of Sri Taralabalu Math.



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Nagaraj Paturi

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Part 3 : of Kahandanam at Pushpa Dixit channel. 

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namastE B V K Sastry ji. 
Hats off to your efforts towards samskRtam Language Automation System studies etc. 
You said above - 

Vyakarana is built on a given understanding of ‘SAMSKRUTHAM: Language Model.

Vyakarana is NOT defining the ‘LANGUAGE MODEL’ .


IMHO: 
Natural Language Grammar fits your above description - they are considered to be in the category of "descriptive grammar"
However, Computer Science requires a "generative / prescriptive grammar" - preferably an effective, efficient and versatile one. 

paaNini system design is the most appropriate for adaptation towards that goal, although a blind adoptation may not work.
That is precisely why all these research efforts are meaningful - not for any better understanding of the vEdic samskRtam etc. 

BVK Sastry (G-S-Pop)

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Namaste

 

What would one call people desirous of playing football on a Tennis court , using hockey sticks ?  

 

1.  Samskrutham is ‘Language-Grammar of  Nature’  [PRAKRUTI –BHASHAA / Prakruti as defined in Gita 7-4].

 

(PRAKRUTI / CHITTA – VRUTTI – Vyaakrana –PRAKRIYAA :   

 Vyaakarana resolved as :  vikarana ( Alternate Do’s ) – aa-karana/  (Total Do’s )  – karana ( Doing Instruments )  – prakrushta ( Excellence )  – kriyaa ( Processing to Output ).

   [ In lighter  vein:     rana = War ! marana =death ].

 

2.  Computer Science requires ‘ Nature of Language’ (Bhashaa –Swaroopa ) and ‘ Thought – Articulation(Bhaava- Aakhyana )  / Thought to Speech (Vivakshita –artha –vachana )  / Intention Intelligent Voice Coding –Decoding – Transmission- Validation- Rules ( Vaakya –artha Nirukti- Nirnaya – Pada –Vakya –shaastra)   .

 

This expectation falls under ‘ Universal Grammar’ framework of Chomsky, which in its original construct was ‘archetypes by Western languages and  historic technology constraints in Techno-linguistics’. Currently this study goes under more advanced domains of A.I / Neuro linguistics, robotics and the like.

 

The current techno-linguistic researchers are kicking around the ‘solutions for the above’ in Non-English languages’ . Samskruth –Grammar studies  is one of the 280 language players with 7000 voice – type variations with different grammars and coding  as ‘contenders’ to emerge as ‘Programming Language’s of Future’, the successors with ‘English – Likeness’.  

 

There are critical steps and thinking process needed to restore : Panini –Native Samskruth Language Model as ‘Vak-yoga: / Yoga-Samskrutham -  Thought Articulation.

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Nagaraj Paturi

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Link shared in BVP WhatsApp group, probably the same scholar but a more detailed talk:


उदयनः

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kenp

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Indian student Rishi Rajpopat, studying at Cambridge University, has solved a 2500-year-old Sanskrit grammar problem. Rishi explained to The Lallantop how he did it, what impact will it create and what is his message after this achievement. Watch the video to know about it.

kenp

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Rishi Rajpopat Expose | ऋषि राजपोपट की शोध कैसे पूरी तरह से गलत है ?

Nagaraj Paturi

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Jan 1, 2023, 1:37:29 AM1/1/23
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I found this to be simpler and lay audience oriented discussion :

Sanskrit Puzzle? or Cambridge's Conspiracy! | Rishi Rajpopat on Ashtadhyayi | EP-11


https://youtu.be/4-5EBsNOtKg

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Rishi Rajpopat Expose | ऋषि राजपोपट की शोध कैसे पूरी तरह से गलत है ?

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