Invitation to "Panini as a Scientist" panel

[Bijoy Misra]

Dear friends,

I wish to seek out researchers who may be engaged in analyzing how Panini

maps space, time and depth in the preparation of grammar.  Some modern

grammarians label Panini as the best "descriptive grammarian" and marvel

at his techniques, brevity and mathematics.  There is a tendency to think that

the language is a mechanical assembly of phonemes organized to make speech.

Panini derives his grammar from the raw human speech and the word formation

 is organic.  Human expression is the detection of an action or the description of 

an observation.  This fundamental division of cognition to detection and 

description becomes the basis of Paninian science.  Both of these conditions

lead to verbs which have to be established in time and space.  Any event has

many more dimensions as to agency, support, likelihood, expectation, effect

and reaction.  These probably were discovered later through analysis.   

Panini creates a framework through which the complete simulation of nature

is possible and we can wander in a linguistic universe.  The linguistic universe

is perceptually similar to the real universe though it is much limited and made

out of discrete parts.  Panini creates rules on how these discrete parts may 

combine to give the feel of the "analog" natural universe. 

I have updated the website to mark an hour for this discussion.

https://thomasburkememoria.wixsite.com/thomas-c-burke

If you are a Panini student and observe human speech, you would appreciate 

participation.   

Symposium registration is via email to idcin...@gmail.com

Best regards,

Bijoy Misra

[Nagaraj Paturi]

Aspects like ' how Panini maps space, time and depth in the preparation of grammar ' are handled in Vakyapadiyam (which is a sutra-irrespective consolidation of sutra-wise ideas in Mahabhashya) and other aarthika granthas of Paninian tradition. 

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Nagaraj Paturi

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[Bijoy Misra]

Prof Paturi,

Good point.  However by the time of Vakyapadiyam, Panini grammar would have been a fully operational product.

We need to engage in discovering Panini modeling principles, in determining the cases, the tenses, the numbers and more.

They must be analytic and not mere invocations.  Speech has many more dimensions (symbols) as we see in the Vedas.

Panini creates a workable model and then prepares the rules for the model.  I appeal to researchers to search science in 

the model.  Hopefully young researchers would get interested. The science is in the simulation of human speech through

discrete tokens.

Best regards,

Bijoy Misra

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