﻿204 ON THE SANSCRIT 



works, however, seem to be now extant; being su- 

 perseded l)y biSj they have probably been disused for 

 ages, and are now perhaps totally lost*. 



A PERFOKMANCE sucb as the Pdninufa grammar 

 must inevitably contain many errors. The task of 

 correcting its inaccuracies has been executed by 

 CA-TYAYANAt, an inspired saint and law-giver, 

 whose history, like that of all the Indian sages, is 

 involved in the impenetrable darkness of mythology. 

 His annotations, entitled Vdrtioas^ restrict those 

 among the Panln'iija rules which are too vague, en- 

 large others which are too limited, and mark nu- 

 merous exceptions which had escaped the notice of 

 Panini himself. 



The amended rules of grammar have been formed 

 into memorial verses by Bhartri-hari, whose 

 metrical aphorisms, entitled Ccirica, have almost 

 tqual authority with the precepts of Panini, and 

 emendations of Catyayana. If the popular tra- 

 ditions concerning Bhartri-hari be well founded, 

 lie lived in the century preceding the Christian 

 /Era;); ; for he is supposed to be the same with the 

 brother of Vicramaditya, and the period when 

 this prince reigned at Lijjciyini is determined by the 

 date of the Samvat iEra. 



The studied brevit}^ of the Fdnin'iya Sutras ren- 

 ders them in the highest degree obscure. Even with 

 ; the 



* Definitions of some teclinical term?, together with grammatical 

 axioms, are also cited from those ancient works in the commentaries 

 on Pa'n'im. They are inferred in a compilation entitled Par'ibha. 

 sba, which will be subsequently noticed. The various ancient gram- 

 :nars of the Sanscnt tongue, as enumerated in a memorial verse, are 

 eight in number, and ascribed to the following authors ; viz. Indra, 

 Chandra, Cas'a, Critsna', Pi'sa'li', S'a'cata'vawa, Pa'n'ini, 

 and Amera Jine'ndra. 



+ This name likewise is a putrnnyiniclc. 



J A beautiful po»m has been compofed in his name, containing 

 moral reflections, which the poet supposes him to make on the dis< 

 covery of his wife's infidelity. It consists of either three or four 

 6'atacas, or centuries of couplets. 



